We have an immediate contract vacancy for an Operations Engineer to work with our prestigious renewable energy client.
The role has been deemed outside IR35 & is expected to last at least 6 months
The core working hours/days per week: 37.5 hours/5 days
Our client is the UK’s leading developer of low-carbon, city-heat-networks. Their mission is to decarbonise heat in cities and towns across the UK, accelerating the transition to net zero.
Their heat networks provide the lowest cost, simplest and fastest route to decarbonising heat at scale and a long-term foundation for healthier, greener cities.
Our client has rapidly grown from a start-up to having over £600m of heat networks in development, with ambitions to deploy £1bn within the next eight years into building new networks.
Their team are leaders in the heat network industry—having delivered and operated more than 100 district heating projects over the past 15 years.
Due to this rapid expansion they are looking for an engaging, communicative team member who is able to work successfully as part of a fast-paced team and business. You will have experience working in challenging environments under pressure and will be able to quickly pick up new concepts to produce great outcomes for the business.
You should be inspired by working with a team who are delivering a new and exciting heat network operations to the market and feel comfortable working with external stakeholders.
You should be an enthusiastic and dedicated team member, calm under pressure when given new challenges, quick at developing relationships and willing to get involved in any area to
keep the programme moving.
Responsibilities:-
• Work closely with the Operations Director to ensure that assets are technically and contractually ready for commercial operations
• Responsible for co-ordination of handover of projects from construction into operations
• Responsible for co-ordination and managing day 1 readiness plan of the projects ensuring that Operations & Maintenance (O&M) contractors are onboarded to the projects
• Ensure that all technical documents and as- built drawings are reviewed, finalised and filed in accordance with our client’s document management system
• Support O&M procurement activities for operations team providing inputs to tendering process and operational schedules for contracts
• Support to provide operational cost estimations to the project commercial models by owning and maintaining operational costs estimation tools
What you’ll need
• Minimum two years’ experience in the energy sector, ideally in heat
• Bachelor’s degree qualified, with a minimum 2:1
• High motivation to contribute to our client’s ambitions of low carbon heat networks
• Brilliant and engaging communicator in all forms
• Clear, structured and organised thinker
• Hardworking and effective
• Excellent team player – able to work cross-functionally and bring people together
• Strong written English skills
Our client’s team is comprised of head office remote and on-site roles, with our team members based across the UK. For this role, although set as home working, there will be occasional travel as required, predominantly to our client’s West Yorkshire projects, but also to meet with customers, stakeholders and colleagues.
All applicants must be eligible to legally work in the UK.
For more information on this excellent temporary opportunity with our market leading client please contact the recruitment team or apply online & we will get back to you