About the Role
Mechanical Engineer
Are you a Mechanical Engineer with experience of fault finding across mechanical systems? Do you have experience working in a heavily regulated Industry or nuclear power?
The Opportunity
As a Mechanical Engineer within the Work Engineering Group (WEG), the core responsibility in this role is to provide engineered solutions to identified work, supporting the delivery of both planned and emergent work. You’ll undertake activities consistent with agreed safety and quality standards, ensuring compliance 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 will be doing
You’ll be carrying out the following Roles and Responsibilities:
- Engineer and specify work packages to achieve station objectives, using systematic application of the Work Management Process (AP928).
- Utilise your operational experience in line with the stations’ Corrective Action Programme.
- Write and approve work order cards (Safe Systems of Work) that contain engineered solutions to correctly reported defects; specifying additional tasks to support the repair ensuring that correct resources, materials and procedures are planned into the work package.
- Provide advice and information to improve maintenance work instructions and check sheets.
- Provide task related Risk Assessments (in line with HSE’s five steps to risk assessment).
- Ensure that existing routine work packages and those prepared by the WEG contain the appropriate information to support successful work execution by the maintenance teams in accordance with applicable standards, practices and expectations.
- Support emergent issues identified during execution week.
- Support both statutory and fuel route outages.
Who you are
As a minimum, you will have an HNC in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent). A background in Mechanical Engineering / Maintenance in heavy industry is essential.
You should have a proven track record of troubleshooting and fault-finding on Mechanical systems including Rotating Plant, Diesel Generators, Hydraulics, Steam, water and Gas systems.
A basic understanding of the operation of an AGR Power Station would be beneficial, however, extensive training will be provided to the successful candidate. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are paramount.
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.
The closing date for applications is Monday 10th March 2025
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