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The Opportunity
This is a great opportunity for you to be part of our ambition to be a distinctive and recognised leader in the UK and Ireland, developing our assets under operation to c.5GW by 2030. Your role as Mechanical Engineer (ME) shall play a key role in ensuring Engineering Excellence in the delivery of Mechanical Engineering services to EDF Renewables in a context of rapid growth and diversification across technologies.
You’ll deliver Mechanical Engineering services in the Engineering Team, CTO, and wider business, demonstrating an ability to add value to opportunities in a highly competitive and changing marketplace while ensuring appropriate Engineering and Quality standards are maintained.
Location Rainton Bridge (Sunderland) office, Edinburgh office or London office. Hybrid WFH/office
Pay, benefits and culture
At EDF Renewables we’re dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world’s biggest challenge – climate change. We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits, and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, or additional holiday.
We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.
We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll demonstrate, by example, adherence and involvement to deliver the four strategic pillars of EDF Renewables UK, namely Zero Harm, Operational Excellence, Business Growth and Inspiring People.
- Contribute to building and strengthening a skilled, high performing, and motivated Mechanical and Structural team, with an open and positive working environment, and a culture of excellence, collaboration and trust.
- Provide Mechanical Engineering support to the onshore and offshore wind business units during periods of high risk and urgency.
- Provide Mechanical technical direction and support to establish a temporary or permanent corrective action plan, and support root cause analysis and solution development when required.
- Ensure all Mechanical Engineering assessments, advice and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures.
- Support technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) activities.
- Responsible for ensuring Mechanical risks are identified, captured, recorded and addressed appropriately, providing technical expertise and guidance to ensure risk level is ALARP.
- Ensure that Mechanical lifetime costs are optimised during the origination, design, and construction of EDF Renewable assets.
- Ensure decommissioning and/or end of life of Mechanical components are considered during the design and construction phases of projects.
- Actively engage in internal lead teams and committees and build a strong support network with the wider EDF business.
- Represent EDF Renewables in external meetings, industry bodies, tradeshows and conventions.
What do you need to be great at this role?
You’ll be a proven Engineer successful in delivering projects/programmes, establishing/managing relationships, securing and maintaining a safe environment, managing priorities, and inspiring and influencing behaviours and actions.
- Strong commitment to safety, health, environment and quality.
- Minimum of an Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering. Chartered membership of an appropriate body would be an advantage.
- Accreditation under WTSR, competent technician, authorised technician or authorised engineer is desirable.
- NEBOSH or IOSH (or equivalent) is desirable.
- Highly proficient in key areas of Engineering in the renewables environment.
- Specialist in Mechanical Engineering discipline within the renewable energy sector.
- Strong experience with asset integrity management of rotating equipment (drivetrain, generator)
- Strong experience of managing risks and challenges in a wind turbine environment.
- Excellent at building successful relationships with external partners, peers, stakeholders and reporting line.
- Good command of Microsoft Office package (MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, etc.).
- Flexible to travel around the UK and overseas as the role requires.
- Full clean UK driving licence.
- Excellent (English) oral and written communication skills.
Closing date for applications: 2nd April 2024
Why EDF Renewables?
At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.
It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.
To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.
If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.
Join us, and let’s do good together.
