About the Role
Mechanical Engineer (Fuel Route Operational Support Team)
We do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. There are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we’ll support you to follow a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.
The opportunity
Join us as an Mechanical Engineer in the Fuel Route department. You’ll provide engineered solutions to high priority emergent work, while making sure safety and quality standards comply with HSE and Site Licence Conditions.
Pay, benefits and culture
The salary range associated with this role is between £44,117 - £92,778; however the starting salary will be within the range of £44,117 - £78,541, allowing room for career advancement. This is a full-time, site-based position.
Alongside 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.
Here at EDF UK, 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
You will engineer and specify work to achieve the station’s objectives. Using operational experience in line with the stations’ Corrective Action Programme, you will write and approve safe systems of work with engineered solutions to correct defects; identifying tasks that support repair, while ensuring resources, materials and procedures are planned into work packages.
Through the provision of advice and information to improve maintenance work instructions and check sheets, you will ensure work packages inform to create successful work performance by the maintenance teams, with applicable standards, practices, and expectations.
Creating risk assessments (in line with HSE’s five steps to risk assessment) and supporting emergent issues, you will be a first point of contact for technical issues and act as Field Supervisor for technical contracts.
Who you are
As a minimum, you’ll have an HNC in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent). A background in Mechanical Engineering / Maintenance in heavy industry is essential.
With a record of troubleshooting and fault-finding on complex, mechanical systems, you will bring excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
A basic understanding of the operation of an Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Power Station is beneficial, however, extensive training will be given.
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 the last 5 years.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 12th March 2025
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