Lead Asset Integration Engineer

Uniper; Retford; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the UK is seeking an experienced professional to join their Project Integration Team. You will lead the integration of projects across CDCPK, ensuring operational requirements are met, including the management of future grid services. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in Engineering and demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and planning skills. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits, along with opportunities for personal development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Enhanced company pension

26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Electric vehicle charging at sites

Company funded Private Medical Insurance

Access to flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Educated to a Degree/Higher National Certificate level in an Engineering or equivalent discipline.
• An understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of projects across CDCPK.
• Interface with demolition of the Cottam A site.
• Act as the lead site interface for future grid services projects.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Project management skills

Planning and organizing skills

Positive work ethic

Education

Degree/Higher National Certificate in Engineering

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Project Integration Team at CDCPK, reporting to the Team Leader, you will lead the development, integration and delivery of new and existing projects across CDC, Killingholme and our Pipelines activities. This role is a Fixed Term contract opportunity.

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst 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 characterised 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

• Ability to lead the integration of projects across CDCPK, ensuring that our needs and requirements are represented as projects are developed and embedding the delivery of the projects into CDCPK operations and maintenance processes and systems.
• At CDC this includes the interface of CDC with the demolition of the Cottam A site, preparing and supporting future decarbonisation options in addition to ensuring CDC’s secure operation independent of Cottam A site.
• Utilising your stakeholder management skills, you will be our interface to wider Uniper business functions to facilitate the development of CDCPK projects.
• Operating as the lead site interface for the development of future grid services projects at CDCPK, which may include Electricity Supply Restoration, Voltage Support, Further Synchronous Compensation and Energy Storage projects.

Your profile

Essential

• Educated to a Degree/Higher National Certificate level in an Engineering or equivalent discipline.
• An understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards and a positive safety mindset, possessing the ability to drive the correct safety culture in others including a safety management qualification (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – Managing Safely / National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health Certificate).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence decision making and promote win-win solutions.
• Positive work ethic with the confidence to challenge established practices.
• Sound financial, commercial, contract, and project management skills.
• Knowledge of current policies and procedures which affect the management and operations of engineering assets.
• In addition you must be able to demonstrate the ability to think rationally but act positively when under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships with the ability to communicate with all stakeholders and engage the CDCPK team in future development opportunities.
• Planning and organising skills to include prioritising, resource management and a long term strategic focus.

Desirable

• Project management qualifications.
• Financial and commercial awareness, including preparation of medium term business plans and project development budgets and project business cases.
• Stakeholder management experience both internally and externally.
• A working knowledge of current policies and procedures covering project development & project management.

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!

Your contact

Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager

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Please note, any CV’s sent via email would not be taken into consideration. All CV’s must be submitted via the online application process only.

Job information

• Contract type: Fixed Term
• Working Hours: Full Time
• Start Date: ASAP
• Deadline: 03/02/2026
• Salary: £63,000 - £77,000

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.