Work Management Project Engineer

Are you an experienced Project Engineer looking for an exciting new challenge? Do you enjoy taking a leading role in delivering projects? We are looking for someone who has experience with delivering projects within a complex environment, this could be within Oil & Gas, Steel, Manufacturing, Engineering or similar.

Sound like you? Is so, Hartlepool’s Outage Department is looking for you to join the team!

At EDF, success is personal. Here you’ll develop a career that’s unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels — it’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and be part be of our mission to help Britain achieve Net Zero.

The Opportunity

As our Project Engineer, you’ll lead and manage the full lifecycle of multi week work across Work Management and Outage, working in partnership with our key internal and external stakeholders. The scope of the Projects you’ll lead in this role support the delivery of safety related plant outages and outage island project delivery to meet the requirements of the Hartlepool’s Generation and Defueling targets.  

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary of £40,069 - £71,779 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing 

As part of your role in successful leading and managing multi week projects and stakeholder relationships you’ll ensure all actions taken are fully compliant with relevant legislative and regulatory requirements. As the Project Engineer you will establish the baseline Scope, Quality, Schedule, and Cost for your projects in line with MTP and ALR2 budgets as well as reporting accurately to reflect the Project position.

Other key areas of the role:

• Secure the required resource to meet project requirements, ensuring all involved are SQEP.
• Develop and conduct effective execution strategies to help in achieving the overall project objectives.
• Ensure effective project change control is implemented when significant changes to scope, schedule or cost are identified.
• Maximise learning opportunities making full use of OpEx.
• Keep your stakeholders both internal and external informed and updated with performance, issues, and risks throughout.
• Ensure effective risk and issue mitigation.
• Leading and coaching your project team to maximise efficient and effective delivery.

Who you are

You will have experience with Project Engineering or Project Management within an engineering, or complex environment. Ideally, we are looking for someone who is not just a Project Manager, we are looking for someone who has an engineering and hands on background, so you can fully understand the processes and be able to be hands on still, hence why we are looking for a Project Engineer.

You’ll hold a HNC or equivalent in an Engineering or relevant discipline.

It would be advantageous if you also hold a relevant certification, for example APMQ

Closing Date for applications: 28th October

If you have any questions or queries regarding this role, please email: megan.gilder@edfenergy.com

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