Senior Utilities Engineer - Electrical

Senior Utilities Engineer – Electrical

Location – Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary – 44,990 – 70,000 (dependent on experience and suitability for the role)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

As a Senior Utilities Engineer, you will deliver professional engineering services to enable the Facility Engineering Team Leader to deliver utility services to facilities, assets and equipment required by AWE.

Key Accountabilities:

• Providing intelligence to maximise the availability of utilities plant, equipment, and infrastructure within relevant networks.
• Identifying risks associated with condition and performance of plant, equipment, and infrastructure.
• Providing engineering intelligence to Engineering Team Leader / Network Manager for mitigations, modifications, and forward strategies.
• Ensuring standards and compliance are maintained for relevant network plant and equipment.
• Overseeing maintenance of configuration baseline and provision of load connection and disconnection authorisations for relevant networks.
• Providing specialist network engineering intelligence to project design and delivery teams.
• Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality and be a great team player.
• Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Applying extensive domain and technical knowledge for design, as built standards and through life system performance for relevant network plant and equipment.
• Prioritising new / remedial works in conjunction with Network Manager and provide specialist engineering resource to enable task delivery.
• Providing specialist engineering knowledge for design. Installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting on network plant equipment and infrastructure.
• Identifying and escalating business risk associated with the condition and performance of network plant equipment and infrastructure.
• Optimising the delivery of Utilities Engineering services.
• Ensuring maintenance activities are delivered in line with AM (PE) standards.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

Who are we looking for?

We’d like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Technician Apprenticeship or HNC/HND with suitable additional experience.
• Ability to lead engineering capability across relevant networks, comprising a range of infrastructure facilities and associated plant and equipment.
• Primary Mechanical Bias with experience across multiple disciplines.
• Leading delivery of Utilities engineering intelligence for relevant networks.
• Experience in utility / building service delivery over a large portfolio of buildings.
• Leading multi-disciplined groups in the delivery of engineering services across the life of an asset.

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

You’ll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own and your team’s workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.

Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave – 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave – 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The ‘Working at AWE’ page on our website is where you can find full details in the ‘AWE Benefits Guide’.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Due to the nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston.

Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.