Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Location – Staythorpe Power Station

Contract Type – Permanent

Working Hours – Full Time

Closing date – 03rd March 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join us at Staythorpe Power Station in Nottinghamshire! The largest CCGT Power Station in England with the potential for retrofitting Carbon Capture and Storage to provide the UK with decarbonised security of supply.

Utilising your background knowledge and experience in the field of Electrical Engineering, specifically in modern heavy industry, you will be expected to provide a high level of asset specific technical knowledge and competence within discipline area to the Operations and Maintenance team. Supporting the technicians in order to deliver challenging operational, technical and commercial targets. Maintain plant area knowledge and expertise within maintenance discipline ensuring risk based maintenance techniques are applied to deliver safe, flexible and reliable plant. 

About the role 

• Health, Safety & Environmental compliance: Ensure compliance with legislative and corporate standards for plant maintenance, supporting Central targets related to safety and operational practices, including Mission Zero, NWoW, and KPIs.
• Proactive & Reactive asset maintenance management: Develop / enhance proactive maintenance management with a focus on continuously improving maintenance practices with an evolving Asset strategy, whilst providing first line complex fault finding and rectification.
• Develop maintenance processes to deliver the commercial performance of the asset: Manage stakeholder interfaces, collaborate with E&O and Operations, support commercial targets, develop maintenance strategies and balance cost with asset performance.
• Budget management and cost control: Develop medium-term maintenance budgets, manage expenditure, prioritize maintenance, and align contracts with Central  guidelines.
• Engender a culture of innovation: Make decisions balancing short-term commercial performance with controllable costs and long-term asset integrity, while developing the asset's capability to deliver optimal commercial performance.
• Management of staff, competence and development: Promote staff engagement, wellbeing, and continuous development supporting RWE’s growth.
• Engagement with the Wider RWE Business: Manage stakeholder engagement across teams, foster organizational buy-in at all levels, and provide flexible management to support RWE fleet assets.

Knowledge & Skills

• Senior technician-level maintenance expertise with the ability to influence engineers and management, while fostering a strong team environment.

• Qualified to HNC / Degree Level in relevant Engineering Discipline and Membership of a relevant professional body.
• Possess strong team working skills , able to operate in a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional environment with the ability to deal with constantly changing priorities.
• Experienced in the management of complex plant issues, and able to provide advice and guidance to operations, maintenance and engineering.
• Possess sound knowledge on power generation, or similar Heavy Industry, safety management systems including system safety rules ensuring maintenance compliance of plant and equipment policies & procedures within discipline area.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, regulations and directives.
• Flexible and geographically agile whilst customer & service focussed.

What we will offer you

• An expected starting salary from approximately £53,000 to £75,000 depending on experience and up to 15% 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
• 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 and 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 89279, application period: 03.03.2025. Any questions? Lee.clark@rwe.com

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