C&I Project Engineer

The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team UK play a key role supporting power plant and gas storage projects, outages and maintenance activities across Uniper's UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply and delivering Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for a Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) Projects Engineer to fulfil a discipline specific role. It is an exciting time to join the team, with the prospect for the right individual to work with a diverse mix of both established and new power plant and technology on advanced power stations and storage facilities. This is a tremendous opportunity, offering development and experience on a massive scale supporting assets and teams across power generation and storage stations.

Your responsibilities

We are looking for people who can bring a flexible, enthusiastic approach, are highly self-motivated, conscientious and can demonstrate ownership of issues through to the implementation of solutions at any of our assets across the UK and Sweden.

You will be capable of demonstrating and developing extensive knowledge and skills in a range of varied C&I engineering and maintenance work activities of a complex and non-routine nature in such a way as to maximise resource utilisation and station/facility availability. You must display capacity for individual responsibility, self-motivation and autonomy while demonstrating exemplary commitment to Uniper’s HSSE and Quality culture.

• Utilising your skills and experience to deliver projects and outages, identify and managing stakeholders across Uniper’s functional organisation and with the supply chain, ensuring process and regulatory compliance with the highest standard of HSSE and Quality performance.
• You will undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations, across a broad range of process plant and systems in support of performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).
• You will have the capability to lead project teams as required dependent on project complexity.
• You will ensure best practice is employed and shared across Uniper sites by networking and benchmarking comparisons with plants, departments, engineers, industries and Uniper teams to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capital expenditure.
• You will be responsible for defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.
• Your attention to detail will ensure the establishment and delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• You will actively promote a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness and quality; seek out improvements in all these areas and directly contribute to their development, planning and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.

Your profile

Essential

• You will be educated to a Higher National Diploma or Degree level in a Control & Instrumentation related discipline, supported with a knowledge of engineering, project management and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• You will be able to apply your good working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH Certificate level or a recognised equivalent in a practical manner.
• You will have a sound understanding of complex C&I process system operations, knowledge of current regulations and policy which affect the management and operations of process plant engineering assets.
• You will have the ability to investigate issues, determine root cause and apply engineering resolutions to complex C&I process systems, demonstrating compliance to change management processes.
• Your strong interpersonal skills will enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Your communication, planning and organisational skills will enable effective task prioritisation and resource management.
• You will have knowledge, understanding and be able to demonstrate application of project management tools and techniques.
• Your organisational, contract and project management skills enable you to run a contract within a project or outage which involve on/off site working including the health, safety, environmental and quality aspects as well as the commercial and technical issues.
• Full and clean UK driving license.

Desirable

• Functional Safety (IEC61508/61511) and/or Cyber Security for Industrial and Control Systems (OG86).
• Use and knowledge of best practice lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause level.
• Management, fault finding and troubleshooting of DCS and PLC systems.
• Management of alarms and simulations.
• Knowledge and competence of using SAP based systems.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.

The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team UK play a key role supporting power plant and gas storage projects, outages and maintenance activities across Uniper's UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply and delivering Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for a Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) Projects Engineer to fulfil a discipline specific role. It is an exciting time to join the team, with the prospect for the right individual to work with a diverse mix of both established and new power plant and technology on advanced power stations and storage facilities. This is a tremendous opportunity, offering development and experience on a massive scale supporting assets and teams across power generation and storage stations.