Mechanical Project Engineer

Uniper; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to support delivery on projects and maintenance across its assets. This role entails ensuring safety, compliance, and efficient resource utilization while promoting a proactive safety culture. The successful candidate will possess a degree in Mechanical Engineering, excellent project management skills, and a commitment to health and safety practices. A range of attractive benefits, including a competitive salary and professional development opportunities, is offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Enhanced company pension

26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible benefits options

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge in mechanical engineering and maintenance work.
• Experience managing projects in a complex environment.
• Capability to investigate and resolve problems effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects and outages while ensuring compliance and safety standards.
• Conduct fault finding and problem-solving across a range of systems.
• Lead project teams and manage stakeholders effectively.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Project management

Health and safety compliance

Problem-solving

Interpersonal skills

Education

Higher National Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP systems

Job description

The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team UK play a key role in supporting delivery of projects, outages and maintenance activities across Uniper's UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply and delivering Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer to fulfil a discipline specific role. It is an exciting time to join the team, with the prospect for the right individual to work with a mix of technologies on established, newer power plants and also gas storage facilities. This is a tremendous opportunity, offering development and experience on a massive scale supporting assets and teams across power generation and storage stations.

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

We are looking for people who can bring a flexible, enthusiastic approach, are highly self-motivated, conscientious and can demonstrate ownership of issues through to the implementation of solutions at any of our assets across the UK and Sweden.

You will be capable of demonstrating and developing extensive knowledge and skills in a range of varied mechanical engineering and maintenance work activities of a complex and non-routine nature in such a way as to maximise resource utilisation and station/facility availability. You must display capacity for individual responsibility, self-motivation and autonomy while demonstrating exemplary commitment to Uniper’s HSSE and Quality culture.

Key Activities

• Utilising your skills and experience to deliver projects and outages, identify and manage stakeholders across Uniper’s functional organisation and with the supply chain, ensuring process and regulatory compliance with the highest standard of HSSE and Quality performance.
• You will undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations, across a broad range of process plant and systems in support of performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).
• You will have the capabilities to lead project teams and contractors as required dependent on project complexity.
• You will ensure best practice is employed and shared across Uniper sites by networking and benchmarking comparisons with plants, departments, engineers, industries and Uniper teams to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capital expenditure.
• You will be responsible for defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.
• Your attention to detail will ensure the establishment and delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• You will actively promote a culture of health, safety, environmental and Quality awareness; seek out improvements in all these areas and directly contribute to their development, planning and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.

Your profile

Essential

• You will be educated to a Higher National Diploma or Degree level in a Mechanical Engineering related discipline, supported with a technical knowledge of engineering, project management and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• You will be able to apply your working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH Certificate level or recognised equivalent in a practical manner.
• Your knowledge and applied experience of industrial process plant mechanical engineering, including pressure systems, will support good maintenance practices and risk management.
• You will have an understanding of complex process system operations, knowledge of current regulations and policies which affect the management and operations of process plant engineering assets.
• You will have the ability to investigate issues, determine root cause and apply engineering resolutions to mechanically related process systems, demonstrating compliance to change management processes.
• You will have knowledge, understanding and be able to demonstrate the application of project management tools and techniques.
• Your organisational, contract and project management skills enable you to run contracts within a project which involve on/off site working to include the health, safety, environmental and quality aspects as well as the commercial and technical issues.
• Your strong interpersonal skills will enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Your communication, planning and organisational skills will enable effective task prioritisation and resource management.
• Full UK driving license.

Desirable

• Use and knowledge of best practice lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause level.
• Knowledge and competence of using SAP based systems.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.

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!