Outage, Projects & Reliability Engineer in Retford, Nottinghamshire

Energy Jobline CVL; Retford; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider in Nottinghamshire is seeking an Outage, Project and Reliability Engineer. This role focuses on maintaining and improving plant performance within a CCGT facility. Candidates should have a degree in engineering and experience in plant maintenance and reliability. The position offers a salary between £51,212 and £63,262 per annum, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in plant engineering, maintenance, and reliability.
• Knowledge of legislation such as PSSR, DSEAR, and COMAH.
• Proven experience managing outages, inspections, and asset integrity programmes.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of outage strategies and projects.
• Analyse plant performance to enhance availability and reliability.
• Manage engineering projects from concept through to completion.

Skills

Plant engineering

Project delivery

Reliability engineering

Contract management

Risk-based inspection methodologies

Analytical skills

Leadership skills

Education

Degree in engineering or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Overview

Astute's Power team is partnering with a leading energy provider to recruit an Outage, Project and Reliability Engineer for its Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant in Nottinghamshire. This Outage, Project and Reliability Engineer position comes with a salary of £51,212 to £63,262 per annum, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

If you're an experienced engineer with a strong technical background in plant maintenance, reliability, and project delivery within the power or heavy industrial sectors, this is an excellent opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's most advanced energy assets.

Responsibilities and duties

• Support the delivery of outage strategies, ensuring projects are completed safely, efficiently and on time.
• Analyse plant performance and develop improvements to enhance availability and reliability.
• Manage and support engineering projects from concept through to completion, including modifications, upgrades and statutory maintenance.
• Oversee maintenance and service contracts, ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory and quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance to operations and maintenance teams to achieve engineering excellence.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, delivering measurable benefits to plant performance and cost efficiency.

Professional qualifications

• Degree in engineering or equivalent experience within electrical or mechanical disciplines.
• Demonstrable experience in plant engineering, maintenance, and reliability within power or heavy industry.
• Knowledge of legislation such as PSSR, DSEAR, and COMAH.
• Proven experience managing outages, inspections and asset integrity programmes.
• Strong understanding of reliability‑centred maintenance and risk‑based inspection methodologies.
• Competence in contract management and project delivery.
• NEBOSH or IOSH highly desirable.

Personal skills

• Proactive, organised and able to manage multiple priorities.
• A confident communicator with strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Analytical, detail‑oriented and driven by continuous improvement.
• Capable of influencing others to achieve shared goals in safety, performance and reliability.

Salary and benefits

Salary: £51,212 to £63,262 per annum, depending on experience. Comprehensive benefits package.

Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of disability, creed or other protected characteristics 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. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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