Shift Operations & Maintenance Technician

RWE; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a Shift Operations & Maintenance Technician to join their team in King’s Lynn. This full-time role involves ensuring the safe operation of the plant and supporting maintenance activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background and prior experience in process operations. The position offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, including a 10% annual bonus and generous leave policies.

Benefits

Up to 10% annual bonus

Personal retirement savings plan

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company Paid Private Medical Insurance

Access to flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Recognized engineering or operations background, or craft skill in an electrical, mechanical or C&I discipline.
• Prior process operations and maintenance experience.
• Proficient in business IT systems such as Microsoft Office and SAP.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Operate CCGT plant following recognized standards.
• Perform O&M duties on a shift basis as required.
• Support with plant outages and recommissioning as required.

Skills

Engineering or operations background

Process operations and maintenance experience

Interpersonal skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Office and SAP

Self-motivated and versatile individual

Knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation

Understanding of safety management systems

Flexible working approach

Willingness to retrain and develop new skills

Education

HNC, ONC, or equivalent

Job description

King’s Lynn Shift Operations & Maintenance Technician

Location – King’s Lynn

Contract Type – Permanent

Working Hours – Full time, Shift

Closing Date – 21st November 2025

We have a rewarding opportunity for Shift Operations & Maintenance Technicians to join us at King’s Lynn power station!

King’s Lynn is a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant with a capacity of 382MW and can meet the needs of up to 400,000 households. The highly flexible plant has an efficiency of 54 percent.

An exciting future awaits at King’s Lynn as we continue to grow to be a key part of the RWE UK Gas portfolio.

Main Purpose of the Role

As a member of the Operations and Maintenance Team, you will contribute towards delivering the safe, reliable operation and commercial performance of our plant along with supporting ongoing continuous improvements to maximise the potential of the station within the RWE Gas UK portfolio. The post holder will be responsible for operating King’s Lynn plant locally from the Central Control Room working with the Remote Support provided by Staythorpe Power Station. This will include fault diagnosis and breakdown recovery.

We will require you to perform O&M duties on a shift basis as required, as well as collaborating with site-based maintenance team, supporting with plant outages and recommissioning as required. As the trend towards growing volumes of renewable generation continues, you should expect maintenance routines to form a growing part of your core role.

Key Responsibilities

• Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Operate our CCGT plant in accordance with recognised standards.
• Undertaking the duties required of you under RWE Safety Rules to operate a safe system of work.
• Maintenance activities.
• Emergency response.
• Outage support.

Knowledge & Skills

• Have a recognised engineering or operations background, or craft skill in an electrical, mechanical or C&I discipline. HNC, ONC, or equivalent.
• Prior process operations and maintenance experience.
• Have effective interpersonal skills and be proficient in the use of applicable business IT systems such as Microsoft Office, SAP.
• Be a self‑motivated, versatile individual able to work with minimum supervision, whilst being able to provide support to the team.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, regulations and directives.
• Values and Behaviours – Role modelling the RWE desired behaviours; Trust, Passion and Performance. This will mean working with others in an open, transparent and consistent way and in a manner that demonstrably puts the needs of RWE Generation ahead of individual departmental or personal objectives.
• Possess an understanding of safety management systems including safe systems of work e.g. permit to work systems.
• Flexible and creative in their approach to supporting the Station and Portfolio through flexible working hours and application of skills.
• Ability and willingness to retrain and develop new skills.

What we will offer you

• Up to 10% annual bonus
• A personal retirement savings plan – if you put in 5%, we will top up by a further 10% and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro‑rata
• Company Paid Private Medical Insurance for you and your family
• One free professional membership subscription
• Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave (subject to operational needs) and retail savings scheme.
• Occupational Health support services for your wellbeing
• Access to our employee assistance programme in times of need
• Up to 2 days volunteering a year

What we offer our people

As well as a competitive starting salary band from £43,482 to £56,270 depending upon skills and experience, a shift allowance of £12,746 per annum, and an impressive benefits package which includes a 10% bonus opportunity, pension, healthcare and 25 days holiday, you’ll also get the opportunity to craft the future of our business. Along the way, we’ll give you all the support you need to develop your skill set and meet your long‑term goals.

To view a preview of our benefits site ‘YourHub’ and see some of the other benefits we have on offer please visithttps://www.edenred.co.uk/campaigns/rwe-yourhub/index.html

Working at RWE

To find out more about what it’s like to work at one of Europe’s largest energy companies and what we are all about we have a wealth of information on our Careers pages. https://www.rwe.com/en/rwe-careers-portal

Here you can meet some of the team, find out more about Diversity at RWE, what your onboarding will look like and some FAQs.

Equal Opportunities

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, age or sexual orientation and identity.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our energy for a sustainable life

RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability. As one of the world’s leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon‑neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To do this, we are looking for resourceful and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.

RWE in the UK

We operate a large and diverse portfolio of power generation assets in the UK. We are the UK’s second largest generator of thermal flexible capacity, supplying around 10% of the UK’s electricity last year with 8.6GW of installed capacity. The portfolio includes the UK’s largest fleet of gas‑fired power stations, along with a small amount of Biomass and Hydro plants.