Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical)

Uniper; Peene; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent energy company based in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced professional to manage and coordinate activities of maintenance and operations teams for their energy assets. The role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, planning maintenance activities, and leading continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate should have extensive technical knowledge, a Higher National Certificate in Engineering, and strong interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder communication. Competitive salary and a range of flexible benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Enhanced company pension

26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Electric vehicle charging at sites

In-house Occupational Health Services

Company funded Private Medical Insurance

Access to flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive technical knowledge of engineering and maintenance practices.
• Positive mindset for health and safety implementation.
• Ability to manage and report performance indicators.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate M&O teams and contractors.
• Engage in planning and scheduling maintenance activities.
• Lead the delivery management of maintenance contracts.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental standards.

Skills

Power plant operations knowledge

Health and safety management

Planning and organising skills

Interpersonal skills

Contract management skills

Education

Higher National Certificate in Engineering

Job description

Assist in managing and co-ordinating the activities of the M&O teams and contractors to ensure delivery of the maintenance and operations strategy for the EGTL >2000MW (multi-location) asset. This includes the planning and delivery of minor projects, breakdown and opportunity outages.

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

• Own the maintenance performance of the designated planner group(s) across EGTL
• Engage in the planning and scheduling of site maintenance and operations activities in compliance with company and local procedures.
• Manage and report on key technical and maintenance performance indicators to deliver the asset health standards.
• Lead a culture of health, safety and environmental management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of M&O plans and drive productivity improvement.
• Lead a culture of quality management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
• Ensure compliance with company and local procedures.
• Lead the review of maintenance spares holdings and stock level optimisation.
• Lead the delivery management of maintenance contracts in full compliance with defined contract roles and nominations.
• Support the Governance & Strategy Team to develop efficient and effective contracting strategies.
• Lead all short-term breakdown and opportunity outages and provide support to long term planned outages to ensure they are delivered safely to programme, budget, and quality within Outage Best Practice.
• Lead the selection, ongoing assessment and development of Uniper apprentices.
• Ensure best practice is employed by networking and benchmarking comparisons with other departments, plants, engineers, industries and Uniper teams (Asset Management, Procurement, Finance) to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capital expenditure.

Your profile

• Desired Education to a Higher National Certificate level in Engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive technical knowledge of power plant operations, engineering and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• An understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards and a positive safety mind set possessing the ability to drive the correct safety culture in others including a safety management qualification (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – Managing Safely )
• Full understanding of and ability to deliver SAP & Maintenance best practice.
• Planning and organising skills to include effective prioritising, resource management and a long term strategic focus.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships with the ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
• Sound financial, commercial and contract management skills.
• The confidence to challenge established practices, suggesting imaginative solutions to problems.
• Knowledge of current policies and procedures which affect the management and operations of engineering assets & CCGT Fleet Management Centre.
• Able to think rationally but act positively when under pressure.
• Able to identify and analyse situations by isolating key issues evaluating relevant data and drawing appropriate conclusions.

Your qualities

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment. Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

• Competitive salary
• Personal development and Learning opportunities
• Enhanced company pension – With up to 12% company contributions
• 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Electric vehicle charging at our sites
• In house Occupational Health Services
• Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service
• Performance related benefits
• Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, or buy and sell extra holiday
• Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!