Engineering Team Leader
Applications close: 06.03.2024
Location: Heysham
Are you a strong leader? Do you have experience in rotating power generation equipment and are you an effective problem solver?
The opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Team Leader within EDF's Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group, where delivering safe, reliable power is at the heart of our Nuclear Operations Business.
Your base location will at our Heysham 2 Power Station, however we support the UK wide fleet, and travel to our other locations may at times be required.
Pay, benefits and culture
We can offer a competitive salary from £53,464 - £71,783 and you'll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Nuclear Generation Company Agreement based on your demonstration of competences, experience, and qualifications. We offer a company pension scheme, 28 days annual holiday and a range of flexible benefits.
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, adjusting as you need. We'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you'll be doing
Your responsibilities as an Engineering Team Leader will be to lead a small Engineering team to support the fleet's turbine and generator assets, as wells as their auxiliary systems. You will provide technical expertise both mechanically and electrically to ensure equipment reliability and alignment to international standards.
In the business, you will report directly to the Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group Manager and work closely with Operations, Supply Chain and Contract Partners, whilst maintaining a key interface with our station engineering teams.
Your day-to-day duties will include:
- Leadership of the Engineering team.
- Checking and supporting the work of the Engineering team.
- Act as technical oversight and signatory.
- Provide fault diagnosis and solutions to the turbine and generator and other plant equipment.
- Assessing plant condition, proposing future operational strategy and recommending the engineering programme of work for station outages and maintenance.
- Ensuring staffing levels & resources are available to accomplish planned maintenance & emergent work requests within the agreed time scales.
- Providing technical specifications and assessments for the supply of spares.
- Supporting & communicating the daily priorities.
- Performing appraisals to actively develop the Engineering team.
- Liaising with external suppliers and contractors.
- Reinforcing positive attitudes & nuclear professionalism behaviours that improve performance and achieve a safe working environment of Zero Harm.
- Supporting continuous improvement.
Who you are
Ideally, as an Engineering Team Leader you will have a minimum of 5 year's experience working with large turbines, generators and their associated generation equipment alongside either a Degree or HND in a relevant Engineering subject. The desire to achieve your Chartered status or already be working towards will be advantageous.
We're looking for a natural leader, with proven experience of supporting and developing a successful team in order to meet business objectives as well as having excellent all-round experience of Personnel Management. You may also have Project Management experience.
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