Country/Region: GB
Contract type: Unlimited
Working hours: Full time
Mechanical Project Engineer
The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team UK plays a key role in supporting delivery of projects, outages, and maintenance activities across Uniper's UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply and delivering Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer to fulfil a discipline-specific role. It is an exciting time to join the team, with the prospect for the right individual to work with a mix of technologies on established, newer power plants, and gas storage facilities. This is a tremendous opportunity, offering development and experience on a massive scale supporting assets and teams across power generation and storage stations.
Your responsibilities
We are looking for people who can bring a flexible, enthusiastic approach, are highly self-motivated, conscientious, and can demonstrate ownership of issues through to the implementation of solutions at any of our assets across the UK and Sweden.
You will be capable of demonstrating and developing extensive knowledge and skills in a range of varied mechanical engineering and maintenance work activities of a complex and non-routine nature to maximise resource utilisation and station/facility availability. You must display capacity for individual responsibility, self-motivation, and autonomy while demonstrating exemplary commitment to Uniper’s HSSE and Quality culture.
Key Activities
• Utilising your skills and experience to deliver projects and outages, identify and manage stakeholders across Uniper’s functional organisation and with the 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 systems in support of performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance, and compliance).
• Leading project teams and contractors as required depending on project complexity.
• 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.
• Actively promoting a culture of health, safety, environmental, and Quality awareness; seeking out improvements in all these areas and directly contributing to their development, planning, and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.
Your profile
Essential
• Educated to a Higher National Diploma or Degree level in a Mechanical Engineering related discipline, supported with technical knowledge of engineering, project management, and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• Ability to apply working knowledge of health, safety, and environmental legislation and standards to IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH Certificate level or recognised equivalent in a practical manner.
• Knowledge and applied experience of industrial process plant mechanical engineering, including pressure systems.
• Understanding of complex process system operations, knowledge of current regulations and policies affecting the management and operations of process plant engineering assets.
• Ability to investigate issues, determine root cause, and apply engineering resolutions to mechanically related process systems, demonstrating compliance with change management processes.
• Knowledge, understanding, and ability to demonstrate the application of project management tools and techniques.
• Strong organisational, contract, and project management skills to manage contracts within a project, including health, safety, environmental, and quality aspects as well as commercial and technical issues.
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions, and with senior stakeholders.
• Effective communication, planning, and organisational skills for task prioritisation and resource management.
• Full UK driving license.
Desirable
• Use and knowledge of best practice lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause level.
• Knowledge and competence of using SAP based systems.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.
At Uniper, we reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension, and health-related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.
Your contact
For any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager at dominic.lindsey@uniper.energy. Please note, any CVs sent via email will not be considered. All CVs must be submitted via the online application process only.
As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity, or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.
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