O&M Technician/Safety Co-ordinator

Operations Technician and Safety Coordinator

Location – Cheshire/Grimsby

Contract Type – Permanent

Working Hours – Full time

Closing Date – 9 February 2025

We are looking for an Operations Technician who can contribute towards delivering the day to day operational requirements for our Cheshire and Grimsby assets.

You will have experience in undertaking plant operational routines, fault diagnosis and breakdown recovery. You’ll collaborate with Engineering teams, supporting plant shutdowns and recommissioning as required.

You can be based at either Cheshire or Grimsby. Occasional travel to both sites is essential and sometimes overnight stays may be required.

As part of this role, we’ll expect you to become the Authorised Safety Co-ordinator in accordance with RWE Generation Safety Rules. This post will allow you to work flexibly, in a site team environment and experience a wide range of operations and maintenance tasks to allow you to develop your career with us.

About the role

• Health, Safety and Environment compliance – Ensure safe operational practices are implemented, and support targets and initiatives relating to health, safety, wellbeing and environment, including Mission Zero and Business KPIs.
• Operate plant in accordance with recognised station standards – Achieve accredited Operator Status and actively seek to gain and apply new skills.
• Provide Safety from System derived hazards - Carrying out the duties of the Safety Controller under RWE Generation UK Safety Rules as nominated and authorised.
• Maintenance Activities - Develop maintenance skills to undertake maintenance during your time at work. This will take the form of a variety of routine tasks and disciplines and more complex undertakings as your skills develop.
• Emergency Response  - Take part in incident response training and site-based exercises which test procedures and competence.
• Outage Support - Work in multi-disciplinary teams to plan and delivery safe and efficient outages. Commission and return the plant to service in a structured and safe way.

Job Requirements and Experience

• Have a recognised engineering or operations background or craft skill in an electrical, mechanical or C & I discipline. HNC or ONC or equivalent.
• Competent in all aspects of power plant operation and or maintenance
• Have strong interpersonal skills and be competent in the use of applicable business IT systems such as
• Microsoft Office and have previous experience of a Maintenance Management System Not exceed
• Be a self-motivated, flexible individual able to work with the minimum of supervision, whilst being capable of providing support to the Team.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, regulations and directives.
• Possess excellent knowledge on power generation safety management systems including system Safety Rules.
• Flexible and agile in their approach to supporting the asset and Embedded Assets fleet through flexible working hours and application of skills. Ability and flexibility to retrain and to take on new skill sets

What we will offer you

• An expected starting salary from approximately £48,000 to £60,000 depending on experience and up to 10% annual bonus
• 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
• Enhanced parental leave from day 1 of you joining #TeamRWE – For primary care givers, weeks 1-29 will be fully paid and 30-39 paid via SMP. For secondary care givers, you’ll get 12 weeks of fully paid leave.
• 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

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

Apply with just a few clicks: ad code 89040, application period: 9 February 2025 Any questions? Lee.clark@rwe.com

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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.