Job Title: Lead Electrical Engineer
Our well established energy client are looking for a Lead electrical engineer. This will be a key role supporting power plant projects, outages and maintenance activities across the UK.
You will be capable of demonstrating and developing extensive knowledge and skills in a range of varied electrical engineering and maintenance work activities of a complex and non-routine nature in such a way as to maximise resource utilisation and power plant availability. This position will deal with Southern UK based projects and therefore travel will just be to those sites.
The successful candidate will be responsible to a Team Leader for ensuring that work targets and objectives are satisfactorily completed and that all work is completed across the main KPI’s (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).
Responsibilities include:
1. Delivering projects and outages, working closely with the Asset Operations, Asset Management and OEMS’s ensuring process compliance, CDM compliance and the highest standard of HSSE and Quality performance.
2. Managing delivery of projects and outages as defined by the Stakeholder, in line with contract, procurement and project management processes.
3. Leading project teams as required dependent on project complexity.
4. Establishing and maintaining relationships with Stakeholders to allow communication and collaborative working.
5. Delivering project charters which clearly define objectives, expectations and communication plans.
6. Developing technical and contract specifications to allow procurement tendering processes to proceed.
7. Managing the Health, Safety, Security and Environment aspects of the asset project and to the Stakeholder standards.
8. Establishing and ensuring delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
Essential Qualifications:
1. Experienced in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering including generators, motors, transformers, switchgear and HV distribution systems.
2. Maintenance of and risk management is essential.
3. A sound understanding of power plant operations, knowledge of current regulations and policy which affect the management and operations of power plant engineering assets.
4. Contract Management skills and experience to appropriately challenge contractors on the methods, quality, and standards of work.
5. Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships within the team, across functions and with senior stakeholders.
6. Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills to include effective prioritisation and resource management.
7. A good working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to NEBOSH or equivalent.
8. Educated to a Higher National Diploma or Degree level in an Engineering discipline, supported with a sound technical knowledge of engineering and maintenance practices gained through experience.
9. A broad knowledge and experience of maintenance activities in an engineering skill spanning more than one plant area.
10. To be able to challenge appropriately to ensure projects are suitably defined and agreed to optimise business value.
11. Fault finding and problem-solving skills.
12. Contract and project management skills to be able to run several contracts within a project which involve on/off site working to include the health, safety and environmental aspects as well as the commercial and technical issues.
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