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.

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.

Your responsibilities include:

• Utilising your skills and experience to deliver projects and outages, identify and manage 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.
• Undertaking 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).
• Leading project teams as required dependent on project complexity.
• Ensuring 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.
• Defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.
• Establishing and delivering contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• Promoting a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness and quality; seeking out improvements in all these areas and directly contributing to their development, planning and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.

Your profile:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to investigate issues, determine root cause and apply engineering resolutions to complex C&I process systems, demonstrating compliance to change management processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills enabling effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Communication, planning and organisational skills enabling effective task prioritisation and resource management.
• Knowledge, understanding and ability to demonstrate application of project management tools and techniques.
• Organisational, contract and project management skills enabling 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.

• 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.

At Uniper, we 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 with home office equipment. Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries.

As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas: Personal development and Learning opportunities, Enhanced company pension – With up to 12% company contributions, 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, Electric vehicle charging at our sites, In house Occupational Health Services, Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service, Performance related benefits, Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, or buy and sell extra holiday, Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity Equity and Inclusion.

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential.

Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager. Please note, any CV’s sent via email would not be taken into consideration. All CV’s must be submitted via the online application process only.

Contract type: Unlimited
Working Hours: Full Time
Start Date: ASAP
Deadline: As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.