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SalaryThe EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
The Opportunity
To support the day-to-day maintenance and operational requirements, specifically in the electrical engineering field, to ensure safe and reliable operation of the plant.
Pay, benefits and culture
The salary range associated with this role is between £40,069
- £71,779 and you’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications. We also offer an attractive pension scheme along with some great company benefits. This is a full-time, permanent position based on-site at Heysham 1 Power Station.At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, 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, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing
Principal Accountabilities:
- Analyse and provide engineering solutions to plant defects and where necessary provide plant modifications and solutions to plant problems.
- Investigate and identify plant faults and prepare instructions for their rectification. Manage routine and defect maintenance, ensuring that plant is maintained and modified in accordance with the site licence and maintenance fundamentals.
- The candidates should possess appropriate Electrical experience and ability applicable to the maintenance and modification of electrical systems specific to AGR power plant and associated electrical ancillary plant including Actuators, Transformers and Gas Turbines and HV equipment and switchgear.
- Take an active role in all team activities to ensure full compliance with agreed safety and environmental standards and expectations, ensuring that all activities, including supervision (Field Supervisor) of contractors, are carried out with full regard to Site Licence requirements, statutory regulations, Company and location directives and Safety Rules. Ensuring activities comply with operation experience feedback requirement (where appropriate to team).
- Maximise effective use of time and personal ability; working flexibly within own range of competence, undertaking the appropriate training and development to extend skills and abilities to meet the needs of the business and the department.
- Achieve Authorised Person Sanction for test to enable the successful candidate to lead HV testing of various plant items on site.
Who you are
The successful candidate should be enthusiastic and a flexible team player, with good communication skills, educated to a minimum HNC/HND or Degree level in Electrical Engineering.
Closing date for applications: Tuesday April 2nd
Interviews to be held week commencing Monday April 15th
Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties.
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.
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