O&M Lead EC&I Engineer

O&M Lead EC&I Engineer

Location(s): Little Barford Power Station, Cambridgeshire, PE19 6YT

RWE Generation UK

Contract Type – Permanent

Grade – PC3

Working Hours – Full Time

Closing Date – 25 Feb 2026

Main Purpose of the Role

As the Lead EC&I Maintenance Engineer your role is to provide end-to-end support to the asset within your area of discipline.

The role is responsible for ensuring the technical delivery of day-to-day maintenance in accordance with strategy, plant defect management / rectification, short and long term outage delivery, projects and tasks are executed to the correct quality on time and within budget.

Maintain plant area knowledge and expertise within maintenance discipline ensuring risk based maintenance techniques are applied to deliver safe, flexible and reliable plant.

Adopt a lead position during the delivery of projects and outages, ensuring all preparation and delivery are completed within the Gated Process criteria.

Your tasks

• Day to Day maintenance of plant – Ensuring technical issues / defects are resolved in accordance with operational requirements.
• Development and review of the short-term maintenance strategies with a view to improving reliability of plant.
• Be responsible for identification and delivery of key maintenance tasks during regime outages to optimise reliability of plant and breakdown conditions.
• Plan and implement EC&I projects or routine activities by contractors on site ensuring safe working methods and quality of work is maintained.

• Providing subject area technical support to the Maintenance Engineers and Technicians.
• Budget management and cost control, ensuring long term business plan reflects maintenance requirements.
• Take a lead role in RCA investigations, Plant Modifications and resolution of technical issues.
• Support the Central Engineering team during large outage periods taking responsibility for identified work packages.
• Management of staff competence and development, whilst promoting employee wellbeing and encouraging a positive team culture.

Your Profile

• Qualified to HND or Degree Level in a relevant Engineering Discipline.
• Membership of a relevant professional body such as the IET.

• Experience in power station Electrical and/or C&I maintenance would be an advantage but experience in similar heavy industries would be considered.
• High level of asset specific technical knowledge and competence within discipline area.
• Experience at directing a team at a senior engineering level.
• Experienced in the management of complex plant issues, and able to provide advice to operations, maintenance and engineering.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, regulations and directives

We can offer you

• An expected starting salary from £65k to £80k depending on experience and up to 15% annual bonus
• A personal retirement saving plan.
• 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
• Up to 2 days volunteering a year

 
Our energy for a sustainable life

RWE has reliably supplied people and companies with electricity for more than 120 years. The way we generate power is changing fundamentally and RWE is driving this change. RWE is committed to be carbon-neutral by 2040, and to generating electricity in a clean, safe and affordable way.
 
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation and to valuing the contribution that our employees make. We welcome and respect differences in culture, background, working style, education and other less obvious differences.  

Any questions lisa.merryweather@rwe.com