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Salary – £55,501 - £71,634 + great benefits

Location – Cranbrook, Exeter

At E.ON UK we offer sustainable energy solutions for homes, businesses and communities and we’re passionate about helping people to reduce their impact on the environment. We’re supporting businesses with their net zero targets, helping local communities upgrade their homes and collaborating with local authorities to transform towns and cities for a more sustainable future.

Right now, we’re looking for an Energy Centre Manager to take responsibility, through others, for the planning and management of all operations and maintenance activities at our Southwest Energy Centre Sites. Here you’ll manage appropriate contract resources, ensuring the assets are maintained to allow the safe and efficient operation within budget at all times.

You’ll also be responsible for the development and delivery of medium to long term operations and maintenance strategies for the Energy Centre Assets including the management of safety, technical governance and risk management.

This is a substantial role with the scope to make a real impact. If you’re a talented leader with an engineering background give your career an energy boost and apply today!

Key responsibilities include

• Providing visible Health & Safety leadership, ensuring all aspects of safety standards and compliance are demonstrably achieved for your sites.
• Leading and managing the team of Energy Centre Engineers. Driving performance, supporting development and establishing a positive culture of control, accountability and collaboration.
• Ensuring the reliable delivery of heat, chill and power to customers for your sites.
• Taking overall responsibility for the financial delivery of your sites in line with agreed targets. Ensuring the efficient and effective running of assets and control of costs.
• Developing, implementing and managing relevant services strategies and records to ensure Energy centres comply with all internal/external minimum standards.
• Effectively delivering Energy Centre planned /unplanned maintenance activities.
• Managing maintenance contracts and requirements.
• Undertaking analysis of plant issues, gaining necessary technical advice, decision making and contract management.
• Being forward looking and innovative in leading the maintenance delivery at the Energy Centres.
• Ensuring contractor performance is optimised utilising E.ON standards and policies.

• Achieved an engineering qualification at ONC level or equivalent and/or demonstratable significant experience in general engineering principles.
• IOSH, or equivalent, safety qualification.
• Competent in hazard identification, risk assessment and management of risks.
• Excellent understanding of commercial effects of sites operations & maintenance.
• Capable to make own management and technical decisions.
• An understanding of industry practise and procedures and, as such, can recognise and diagnose problems and make decisions which are unprecedented.
• Take responsibility for, plan and coordinate all operations and team development and training activities.
• Ability to create long term plans, up to 5 years in advance.

It would be great if you had

• NEBOSH General Safety qualification.
• Further recognised engineering qualifications.
• A willingness to attain a recognised leadership qualification.

• The salary for this role is £55,501 - £71,634.
• This role is based from our Cranbrook Energy Centre with hybrid working and limited travel to our other Energy Centres within the Southwest.
• There will be a requirement to participate in an on-call rota for out of hours breakdowns.
• This is a permanent role.
• Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022!
• As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our 2022/23 ranking is 15th) we’ve proven that we’re committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.
• As a Disability Confident Employer, we interview every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
• We’ve exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning and development for all, building your skills, qualifications, and capabilities throughout your career.