Senior Electrical Engineer

Astute People

Warrington

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 85,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Opportunity
Private Medical Insurance
Health Care Cash Plan
Pension contributions (Salary Exchange
Fixed employer Pension 6%
Contractual sick pay
34 days annual leave
Life Assurance
Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
EV/Hybrid car scheme
Annual bonus
Training & professional development

Job summary

Astutes Power Team in the UK is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to support a fleet of Biomass and Energy from Waste power stations nationwide. You will act as the senior electrical authority across the full lifecycle, from concept through to commissioning and service modifications, ensuring plant performance and long-term maintainability.

You will develop maintenance systems, support outages, lead electrical upgrade projects, and provide expert guidance to ensure safe, reliable operation

Qualifications

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
  • NEBOSH or IOSH in Health & Safety (or similar).
  • Chartered membership or working towards.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and continuously improve electrical maintenance systems, processes, and practices across the UK fleet.
  • Provide electrical engineering support during planned outages, major maintenance activities, and critical operational interventions.
  • Drive improvements in plant reliability, maintainability, and overall operational performance.
  • Undertake technical surveys, inspections, condition assessments, and investigations to identify opportunities for reliability and maintenance improvements.
  • Support and deliver electrical upgrade, modification, and improvement projects across operational power plants.
  • Provide day-to-day electrical technical support across the UK power plant fleet, including remote troubleshooting, fault finding, inspections, and technical guidance.
  • Develop technical specifications, coordinate technical activities with contractors and suppliers, and support the implementation of effective electrical engineering solutions.

Skills

Electrical Engineering
HV/MV/LV systems
Project management
Safety leadership
Troubleshooting

Education

Electrical Engineering degree
NEBOSH or IOSH
Chartered engineer (or working towards)

Tools

Electrical testing equipment

Job description

Astutes Power Team are recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer to support a fleet of Biomass and Energy from Waste Power Stations across the United Kingdom.

Working within the centralised Engineering Team, you'll be responsible for delivering electrical engineering expertise across the full lifecycle of the portfolio, this includes concept development and proposals, to detailed design, execution, commissioning and service modifications. You will act as the senior electrical authority on assigned projects supporting the plant performance, reliability and long term maintainability.

If you have the relevant experience (please see below) and are looking for a rewarding role in the Power sector, then.

Responsibilities and duties:
  • Develop and continuously improve electrical maintenance systems, processes, and practices across the UK fleet.
  • Provide electrical engineering support during planned outages, major maintenance activities, and critical operational interventions.
  • Drive improvements in plant reliability, maintainability, and overall operational performance.
  • Undertake technical surveys, inspections, condition assessments, and investigations to identify opportunities for reliability and maintenance improvements.
  • Support and deliver electrical upgrade, modification, and improvement projects across operational power plants.
  • Provide day-to-day electrical technical support across the UK power plant fleet, including remote troubleshooting, fault finding, inspections, and technical guidance.
  • Develop technical specifications, coordinate technical activities with contractors and suppliers, and support the implementation of effective electrical engineering solutions.
Professional qualifications
  • Ideally a degree in a related Engineering field such as Electrical Engineering
  • Holder of NEBOSH or at least IOSH in Health & Safety (or similar).
  • Member of a recognised Engineering institution such as Chartered (or working towards)
  • Personal skills
The Senior Electrical Engineer role would suit someone with:
  • Extensive knowledge of legislation relating to electrical assets as well as Safe Systems of Work, Safety Rules & Permit to Work Systems.
  • Experience working with High Voltage, Medium Voltage and Low Voltage systems, including transformers, generators, switchgear , UPS and protection systems
  • At least three years supervisory experience in a relevant Engineering / Fleet / Asset position
  • Experience with solid fuel plants such as Energy from Waste or Biomass - other forms of Power Generation will be considered
  • Experience managing projects & outages
Salary and benefits of the Senior Electrical Engineer role
  • Competitive salary (DOE)
  • Bonus Opportunity
  • Health Care Cash Plan)
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Salary Exchange Pension contributions
  • Fixed employer Pension contribution of 6%
  • Contractual sick pay
  • 34 days annual leave (inclusive of the statutory Bank Holidays) with the addition of 1 extra days annual leave for every 5 years of service
  • Life Assurance cover at 3 x salary
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
  • Access to a salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
  • Opportunity to earn an annual bonus (depending on business performance)
  • Training & professional development
  • New role within a Fleet Engineering Team

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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.

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