Electrical Engineering Placement: Power Plant Outages

RWE Gruppe; Pembroke; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement savings top-up

Life assurance

25 days annual leave

Flexible benefits programme

Job summary

RWE Generation UK is offering an engineering placement within the Gas Engineering and Outage group. You will join a team supporting C&I work across outages and projects at UK power plants, with sites in Pembroke, Staythorpe, Didcot and Little Barford.

The role provides hands-on experience, data analysis, and exposure to asset integrity and plant improvement projects, with a focus on safety, efficiency and commercial flexibility.

Qualifications

• Ideally, you should be pursuing a BEng or MEng Engineering or Science degree at an undergraduate level.
• Your degree should include an industrial placement year to meet the requirements for this role.
• Willingness to travel around the UK and potentially Europe, with overnight stays away from your home location. Expenses will be covered for this.

Responsibilities

• Provide key engineering support to ensure safe, efficient operation of power stations.
• Perform data analysis to diagnose problems for long and short-term projects.
• Support development of asset integrity processes and deliver plant improvement projects and investigations.
• Assist in delivering work packages in large station outages.
• Gain practical training and professional development opportunities.

Education

BEng or MEng Engineering or Science degree

Job description

RWE Generation UK is offering an engineering placement within the Gas Engineering and Outage group. You will join a team supporting C&I work across outages and projects at UK power plants, with sites in Pembroke, Staythorpe, Didcot and Little Barford.

The role provides hands-on experience, data analysis, and exposure to asset integrity and plant improvement projects, with a focus on safety, efficiency and commercial flexibility.