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EGTL Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical)

Uniper
Kent, GB, ME3 0ARfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Jan 2026
💰 £65,000/yr(£53,000/yr£65,000/yr)

About the role

 Assist in managing and co-ordinating the activities of the M&O teams and contractors to ensure delivery of the maintenance and operations strategy for the EGTL >2000MW (multi-location) asset. This includes the planning and delivery of minor projects, breakdown and opportunity outages.   

 

We are Uniper

 

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

 

Your responsibilities

 

•    Own the maintenance performance of the designated planner group(s) across EGTL
•    Engage in the planning and scheduling of site maintenance and operations activities in compliance with company and local procedures.
•    Manage and report on key technical and maintenance performance indicators to deliver the asset health standards.
•    Lead a culture of health, safety and environmental management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
•    Lead a culture of continuous improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of M&O plans and drive productivity improvement.
•    Lead a culture of quality management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
•    Ensure compliance with company and local procedures.
•    Lead the review of maintenance spares holdings and stock level optimisation.
•    Lead the delivery management of maintenance contracts in full compliance with defined contract roles and nominations.
•    Support the Governance & Strategy Team to develop efficient and effective contracting strategies.
•    Lead all short-term breakdown and opportunity outages and provide support to long term planned outages to ensure they are delivered safely to programme, budget, and quality within Outage Best Practice.
•    Lead the selection, ongoing assessment and development of Uniper apprentices.  
•    Ensure best practice is employed by networking and benchmarking comparisons with other departments, plants, engineers, industries and Uniper teams (Asset Management, Procurement, Finance) to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capital expenditure.

 

  

Your profile


•    Desired Education to a Higher National Certificate level in Engineering or equivalent.
•    Extensive technical knowledge of power plant operations, engineering and maintenance practices gained through experience.
•    An understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards and a positive safety mind set possessing the ability to drive the correct safety culture in others including a safety management qualification (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – Managing Safely )
•    Full understanding of and ability to deliver SAP & Maintenance best practice.
•    Planning and organising skills to include effective prioritising, resource management and a long term strategic focus.
•    Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships with the ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
•    Sound financial, commercial and contract management skills.
•    The confidence to challenge established practices, suggesting imaginative solutions to problems.
•    Knowledge of current policies and procedures which affect the management and operations of engineering assets & CCGT Fleet Management Centre.
•    Able to think rationally but act positively when under pressure.
•    Able to identify and analyse situations by isolating key issues evaluating relevant data and drawing appropriate conclusions.

 

 

Your qualities

  At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting

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