Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

Are you an innovative, forward thinker? Do you want to play a key role in providing engineering solutions across the EDF Fleet?

 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

This is an exciting opportunity for a Mechanical Engineer to join EDF’s Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group, where delivering safe, reliable power is at the heart of our Nuclear Operations Business.

You will provide technical expertise to ensure equipment reliability and alignment to international standards, driving quality and performance improvement across our Fleet.

Your base location will be at our Heysham 2 Power Station however we support the UK wide fleet, and travel to our other locations may at times be required.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a competitive annual salary ranging from £45,066 - £81,267 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

You’ll carry out regular plant assessments, recommending an engineering programme of work for Station outages and maintenance as well as planning and working towards future operational strategy, proposing engineering plant modifications that will help in the long-term reliable, safe generation of power. You’ll also provide fault diagnosis and solutions for turbine, generator and other plant equipment.

Plant performance data will be assessed and analysed, utilising best practice, new innovative design and engineering solutions that you’ll propose and implement to support the Fleets engineering responses. You’ll contribute to departmental and Fleet wide Business Plans driving performance improvement throughout the Business.

 Your day-to-day duties will include:

• Providing specialist technical support.
• Provide fault diagnosis and solutions to the steam turbine and generator and other plant equipment.
• Act as technical oversight and signatory.
• Providing technical specifications and assessments for the supply of spares and repairs.
• Carry out calculations to support engineering decisions.
• Read and prepare engineering drawings (AutoCAD desirable).
• Supporting commissioning of Oil, Steam, Gas and Auxiliary Systems.
• Reverse engineering of Turbine and Generator components as required.
• Reinforcing positive attitudes & nuclear professionalism behaviours that improve performance and achieve a safe working environment of Zero Harm.
• Supporting continuous improvement.

Who you are

Ideally, you will have demonstrable experience working with large turbines, generators and their associated generation equipment alongside either a degree or HNC in a relevant Engineering subject. If you’re working towards or already part of a Professional Association that would be great (but not mandatory!).

You’ll have awareness of methodologies related to repair, refurbishment and modification ideally of Steam Turbines and Generators.

Experience of adhering to Work Management processes and procedures would be advantageous as our environment is heavily regulated, with various site licence conditions, regulations and procedures in place to ensure safety for colleagues, the public and the environment.

Applications close for this role on 26th May, with interviews being held on w/c 9th June.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

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