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Lead electrical engineer

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
Uniper
Lead electrical engineer
Posted: 27 October
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The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team play a key role supporting power plant and gas storage projects, outages and maintenance activities across Uniper UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply in the UK and deliver Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer based in the South East but is expected to provide support at any UK location to fill a discipline specific role. This is an exciting time to join the team and represents an opportunity for the right individual to work with a diverse mix of both established and new power plant technology on advanced power stations and storage facilities.

Your responsibilities include:

* Leading and delivering projects and outages, identifying and managing stakeholders across Uniper’s functional organisation and supply chain, ensuring process and regulatory compliance with the highest standard of HSSE and Quality performance.
* Undertaking proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations, across a broad range of process plant and electrical systems in support of performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).
* Leading project teams and complex projects.
* Ensuring 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.
* Defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.
* Establishing and delivering contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
* Promoting a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness and quality; seeking out improvements in all these areas and directly contributing to their development, planning and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.

Your profile should include:

* A Higher National Diploma or Degree level in an Electrical Engineering discipline, supported with a sound technical knowledge of engineering, project management and maintenance practices gained through experience.
* A sound working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to NEBOSH Certificate level or a recognised equivalent in a practical manner.
* Experience in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering including generators, motors, HV transformers, switchgear and HV distribution systems, will enable you to correctly maintain, understand and manage system and equipment risks.
* Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.
* Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills to enable effective task prioritisation and resource management.
* In depth knowledge, understanding and demonstration of application of project management tools and techniques, with the skills to appropriately challenge ensuring projects are suitably defined and agreed to optimise business value.
* Organisational, contract and project management skills to run several contracts within a project which involve on/off site working including the health, safety, environmental and quality aspects as well as the commercial and technical issues.
* A full and clean UK driving license.

Desirable qualifications include:

* Use and knowledge of best practice lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause level.
* APMP or Prince 2 project management qualification.
* Knowledge and competence of using SAP based systems.
* Experience of working in a fast paced environment.
* A sound understanding of power plant operations, knowledge of current regulations and policy which affect the management and operations of power plant engineering assets.
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