Group Senior Electrical Engineer

Astute People; Ferrybridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Astute is recruiting a Group Senior Electrical Engineer to support enfinium's EfW assets, focusing on long-term strategy for electrical integrity and performance of HV/LV systems.

Reporting to the Asset Management Director, you will lead technical governance, drive maintenance strategy, outages, lifecycle plans and ensure safety compliance across multi-site operations in the UK. A Chartered Engineer or progression toward registration is required.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related discipline.
• Substantial electrical engineering experience in power generation or utilities.
• Strong knowledge of HV/LV systems including protection, switchgear and transformers.
• Chartered Engineer status or progress toward professional registration.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical authority for electrical engineering across sites.
• Develop and maintain electrical standards, specifications, philosophies and guidance.
• Provide specialist support for HV and LV systems, including protection, switchgear and transformers.
• Lead complex electrical fault investigations, root-cause analysis and reliability improvements.
• Assess electrical asset condition, criticality and lifecycle planning.
• Lead electrical scope for outages, capital projects and commissioning activities.
• Monitor asset performance and identify opportunities to improve reliability and life-cycle cost.
• Identify critical spares and investment requirements with robust business cases.
• Manage electrical engineering budgets, forecasts and contractor oversight.
• Ensure compliance with electrical legislation and safe systems of work.

Skills

HV/LV electrical systems

Outage planning & delivery

Budget management

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Chartered Engineer status or progression

Job description

Astute's Power team is exclusively partnered with enfinium to recruit a Group Senior Electrical Engineer to work across their Energy from Waste (EfW) assets. This role will be focusing on the long-term strategy relating to integrity and performance of Electrical assets with a focus on the high voltage generators, switchgear and transformers.

enfinium currently have five fully operational EfW facilities which export c.315 MW of electricity to the grid, with a further site due to be fully operational soon which will take the combined electricity export to c.358 MW.

The Group Senior Electrical Engineer comes with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Responsibilities and duties of the Group Senior Electrical Engineer role

Reporting to the Asset Management Director you will:

• Act as the senior technical authority for electrical engineering, providing technical leadership, governance, assurance and risk management across operational sites.
• Develop, review and maintain electrical engineering standards, specifications, philosophies and guidance in line with legislation and recognised good practice.
• Provide specialist technical support across HV and LV systems, including distribution, protection, switchgear, transformers, generators, motors, drives, earthing and associated control interfaces.
• Lead and support complex electrical fault investigations, root-cause analysis and reliability improvement activities, ensuring lessons learned are implemented across the portfolio.
• Assess electrical asset condition, criticality and obsolescence, developing risk-based inspection, maintenance, renewal and lifecycle plans.
• Lead the electrical scope for outages, plant modifications, capital projects and commissioning activities, including design reviews, testing and technical handover.
• Monitor electrical asset performance, failure trends and condition data to identify and prioritise opportunities to improve reliability, availability and whole-life cost.
• Identify critical electrical spares and investment requirements, developing robust technical and commercial business cases to protect asset availability.
• Manage electrical engineering budgets, forecasts and expenditure, while specifying and overseeing contractors, suppliers and engineering services.
• Ensure compliance with electrical legislation, corporate standards and safe systems of work, while coaching site teams and engineers and promoting a strong electrical safety culture.

Professional qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Substantial electrical engineering experience within power generation, Energy-from-Waste, utilities, process plant or another safety-critical industrial environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of HV/LV electrical systems, including distribution, protection, switchgear, transformers, generators, motors, drives and earthing.
• Demonstrable experience in electrical design review, asset condition assessment, fault investigation, maintenance strategy, lifecycle planning and delivery of engineering improvements or capital projects.
• Strong knowledge of electrical health and safety legislation, with experience managing budgets, contractors and suppliers
• Chartered Engineer status or progress towards professional registration is required.

Personal Skills

• Analytical and solutions focused. Able to investigate complex technical issues, interpret data and develop practical, risk-based solutions.
• Proactive and independent. Takes ownership, challenges existing practices constructively and identifies opportunities to improve safety, reliability and performance.
• Strong communicator and collaborator. Confident communicating with engineers, site teams, contractors and senior stakeholders, with the ability to influence across a multi-site organisation.

Salary and benefits of the Group Senior Electrical Engineer role

• Very competitive starting salary
• Full benefits package including private medical insurance
• Opportunity to join a leading Energy from Waste company
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We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation.

We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK.

Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative.