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)
• Responsible for 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.
• Duties to include:
• Manage delivery of projects and outages as defined by the Stakeholder, in line with contract, procurement and project management processes.
• Lead project teams as required dependent on project complexity.
• Establish and maintain relationships with Stakeholders to allow communication and collaborative working.
• Deliver project charters which clearly define objectives, expectations and communication plans.
• Develop technical and contract specifications to allow procurement tendering processes to proceed.
• Manage the Health, Safety, Security and Environment aspects of the asset project and to the Stakeholder standards.
• Establish and ensure delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

Essential:

• Experienced in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering including generators, motors, transformers, switchgear and HV distribution systems. Maintenance of and risk management is essential.
• A sound understanding of power plant operations, knowledge of current regulations and policy which affect the management and operations of power plant engineering assets.
• Contract Management skills and experience to appropriately challenge contractors on the methods, quality, and standards of work.
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships within the team, across functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills to include effective prioritisation and resource management.
• A good working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to NEBOSH or equivalent.
• 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.
• A broad knowledge and experience of maintenance activities in an engineering skill spanning more than one plant area.
• To be able to challenge appropriately to ensure projects are suitably defined and agreed to optimise business value.
• Fault finding and problem-solving skills.
• 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.