AddressPortfolio Technical Lead - Chemistry
Location – Staythorpe (Other locations can be considered, with travel required to RWE’s Gas Assets essential)
Contract Type – Permanent
Working Hours – Full time
Closing Date – 14 July 2024
Are you an experienced People Manager, with a background in Chemistry in the Power or Petrochemical sector?
Owing to internal progression, we are on the look out for a Portfolio Technical Lead for Chemistry. You will have responsibility for managing a team of Chemists and Technicians, spread geographically across our fleet of Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power stations and our Central Support Laboratory and the services it provides.
You will be both a technical expert and a strong people manager, able to make optimum technical decisions and give your team the tools to do the same in order to deliver projects and tasks across the portfolio safely and with a commercial focus.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsibility for providing support to our assets across a range of chemistry specialisms including, Water, Environmental & Safety Regulation, Coatings and Corrosion, Noise and Air Quality.
- Management of our Central Support Laboratory, which provides water chemistry analysis, oil analysis, air monitoring support and management of specialist analytical support contracts.
- Provide leadership on all areas of Health Safety & Wellbeing across the chemistry team, role modelling the right culture and behaviours.
- Delivery on the requirements of line management, including HR tasks such as performance management, target setting and annual performance reviews
- Alignment of resources taking into consideration the medium to long-term priorities established by the business.
- Accountability for the optimum techno-economic decisions in Chemistry and its consistent application; inline with our individual asset strategies across the portfolio.
- Utilisation of own/portfolio/RWE wide industrial knowledge in the development of strategies for Chemistry, aligned with market conditions / capital availability of the business for optimum decision making and considering the long term asset care.
- Working with Operations and Maintenance, Engineering & Outage Planning, Asset Management to develop strategies within Chemistry to ensure the safe, efficient and reliable operation of our assets.
Knowledge and Skills
- Degree educated in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or similar
- Experience of managing a team, ideally one that is geographically dispersed
- A strong understanding of the wider power generation process and how their discipline fits, not just technically but also from a process safety, operational and commercial perspective.
- A detailed knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation, particularly how it is applied to chemistry in a power station environment
- Able to change priorities comfortably according to different demands
- A willingness to travel according to business and your team’s priority
What we will offer you
- An expected starting salary from approximately £80,000 to £95,000 depending on experience and up to 15% annual bonus
- A car allowance of £6,600 per year
- A personal retirement savings plan – if you put in 5% we will top up by a further 10% and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro-rata
- Company Paid Private Medical Insurance for you and your family
- One free professional membership subscription
- Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave and retail savings scheme
- Occupational Health support services for your wellbeing
- Access to our employee assistance programme in times of need
- Up to 2 days volunteering a year
- Flexible working time arrangements through hybrid working within the framework of operational possibilities
To view a preview of our benefits site ‘YourHub’ and see some of the other benefits we have on offer please visit https://www.edenred.co.uk/campaigns/rwe-yourhub/index.html
Working at RWE
To find out more about what it’s like to work at one of Europe’s largest energy companies and what we are all about we have a wealth of information on our Careers pages. https://www.rwe.com/en/rwe-careers-portal
Here you can meet some of the team, find out more about Diversity at RWE, what your onboarding will look like and some FAQs.
Equal Opportunities
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, age or sexual orientation and identity.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Our energy for a sustainable life
RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability. As one of the world’s leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To achieve this, we are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.
RWE in the UK
We operate a large and diverse portfolio of power generation assets in the UK. We are the UK’s second largest generator of thermal flexible capacity, supplying around 10% of the UK’s electricity last year with 8.6GW of installed capacity. The portfolio includes the UK’s largest fleet of gas-fired power stations, along with a small amount of Biomass and Hydro plants.
We help organisations shape their mining, thermal generation, renewable energies and plant operation activities more efficiently. We provide solutions along the project value chain that are tailored to the needs of our clients – from planning and construction to operation and dismantling of industrial energy plants. In doing so, we contribute to clean, reliable and affordable electricity – and a sustainable life.
Any questions? Contact in Recruiting: Lee Clark, lee.clark@Rwe.com, Contact in the specialist department: Peter Fitzpatrick. Please note: we are confident in our ability to fill this role utilizing our in-house recruiter resource, and do not need to partner with any agencies on this role.
