Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Electrical Engineer to join the Engineering department at Langage Power Station. The successful candidate will be responsible for the management of the long-term integrity of all HV and LV electrical systems on site, ensuring high levels of safety, reliability, technical and legal compliance. They will also provide specialist support, guidance and technical advice to the Engineering and Maintenance teams on site, as well as long-term planning and through-life management (including obsolescence) of site electrical infrastructure and systems.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the key duties and responsibilities will be:

• Ensuring compliance with Electrical Engineering Technical Procedures and external legislation.
• Determining maintenance and inspection requirements of electrical systems.
• Identifying, specifying and managing electrical biased contracts including contractor management.
• Input into rolling 5 year business plan spend on electrical systems, including in-year management of spend and phasing through self and others.
• Planning and leading electrical inspection works during scheduled outages, to maintain integrity, reliability and compliance.
• Providing specialist electrical support and advice to Engineering and Maintenance teams on short term and long term issues.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Background:

• Knowledge and experience of HV and LV electrical systems, including transmission and distribution.
• Knowledge and experience of HV and LV protection.
• Knowledge and experience of DSEAR management.

Behaviours:

• Building and influencing relationships through excellent interpersonal skills and a strong positive attitude.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes, cope with pressurised situations, flexible approach to changes in priority and adhering to deadlines.
• Excellent numeracy, literacy and problem-solving skills.
• High motivation, self-direction and self-awareness.
• Ability to integrate and actively participate within a positive safety culture.
• Willingness to further develop skills within the C&I discipline as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Degree in an Electrical Engineering discipline, and/or a HND/HNC in an Electrical Engineering discipline with extensive industrial experience.
• Membership of a professional institution, or working towards membership and chartership.

About EP UK Investments Ltd

EPUK Investments Ltd (EPUKI) is the UK division of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH), a leading energy group of over 70 companies that owns and operates assets across Europe. EPH group employs circa 24,000 people internationally, owns €30.5bn of assets, generating €37.1bn of revenue and an EBITDA of €4.3bn.

EPUKI was established in 2015 as the strategic platform for expanding the EPH group into the UK energy market. Since launching, EPUKI has made several acquisitions and developed a number of new opportunities and now owns multiple renewable and flexible power generating assets in the UK and Ireland.

EPUKI has grown rapidly to revenues ~£3.5bn and EBITDA ~£300m. We pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture and flat leadership structure where individuals (wherever they are in the organisation) can make a real impact on our business.

Our aim is to enable the UK and Ireland low carbon transition through provision of flexible and reliable energy supply. To achieve this, we will:

• develop, construct and acquire the right assets to support the transformation of the energy system;
• invest in our people and our assets to best respond to the changing needs of our sector;
• continuously challenge ourselves to identify opportunities, build our knowledge and develop innovative solutions.

EPUKI is one of the largest independent generators in the UK and Ireland, with an asset base that covers multiple technologies and a range of revenue streams; these include fully merchant baseload and peaking plant and index traded baseload plants, providing a range of system services across the energy and balancing spectrum.

Despite its significant market presence, EPUKI has a flat structure with fast paced decision-making ability enabling better optimisation of market positions. The market continues to evolve and develop as the UK and Irish governments drive towards Net Zero with increasing challenges of renewables penetration, introduction of hydrogen and other new technologies.