Work Engineering Group Engineer (WEG Engineer)

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The Opportunity

As the WEG Engineer / Maintenance COP Compliance Owner you will take an active role in the team, with a focus in two areas.

The specification of work order packages for defects across all systems. Ensuring full compliance with agreed safety and environmental standards, to assist in the production of Work Week, Refuelling and Statutory Outage Plans in accordance with the Work Management Process.

Oversight of the 5 maintenance COP areas, ensuring compliance in all aspects and highlighting and producing actions plans when gaps are identified.

• BEG/SPEC/SHE/COP/010 – Workshop machine tools.
• BEG/SPEC/SHE/COP/015 – Provision & Use of Work Equipment
• BEG/SPEC/SHE/COP/024D – MEWPs.
• BEG/SPEC/SHE/COP/027 – Control of Vibration Exposure
• BEG/SPEC/SHE/COP/030 – Control of Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary between £44,112 – £78,541 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 the WEG Engineer you will carry out the following roles and responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out with full regard to Site Licence requirements, Statutory Regulations, company and location procedures and Safety Rules
• Delivering fully engineered solutions to defects
• Preparing and managing work supporting documentation
• Carrying out risk assessments
• Reviewing spares and liaising with supply chain for non-stock items
• Attending the relevant work planning meetings
• Conducting site walk downs to identify potential problems for complex jobs including the need for additional tasks and resources, verify defects, equipment problems, assemble work packs and update model work orders.
• Supporting the WEG Co-ordinator
• Reviewing and implementing relevant operating experience feedback
• Taking an active role in supporting the Corrective Action Programme (CAP), raising Condition Reports (CR) when appropriate and delivering actions to agreed timescales.

As the Maintenance COP Compliance Owner, you will carry out the following roles and responsibilities:

• Manage compliance against the 5 Code of practices above.
• Report to the Work Equipment Oversight Committee (WEOC) on current status and gaps.

Who you are

The successful WEG Engineer will ideally have the following skills and experience:

• You will hold an HNC or equivalent.

• A broad knowledge of Nuclear Power Plant and an awareness of Operational and Maintenance constraints
• An analytical approach to fault finding, to diagnose and specify solutions to address plant defects with close attention to detail.
• Knowledge of Safety and Environmental legislation, risk assessment and EDF procedures
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• An aptitude to use various computer software packages.
• A flexible and proactive approach to work
• Ability to work independently if required and possess high personal motivation.
• Excellent team working skills and a desire to contribute to improving safety, reliability and performance.

Closing date for applications: Sunday January 12th

Interviews to be held week commencing  Monday January 20th

Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

Success is personal. It’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and we’ll help Britain achieve Net Zero, together.

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