Job description
Heysham 1 have a number of multi-faceted Engineering opportunities across a number of integral Engineering teams. If you’re skilled in Mechanical, Electrical or Instrumentation and Control engineering we’d love to hear from you!
You’ll work alongside our existing Design and System Engineers already established in the Engineering Department at Heysham 1 and will provide strong technical conscience and guidance to the rest of the Station.
An Engineering role at Heysham 1 will offer you a varied and challenging career, allowing you to work across the Station with a variety of different Departments and teams in order to minimise plant losses through ensuring excellence in equipment reliability.
This advert will close on Sunday 21st May 2023
Interviews will take place the week commencing 12th June 2023
Pay, Benefits and Culture
We’re offering a salary of £40,069 – £71,779 that apply with our terms and conditions covered by the EDF Company Agreement. The starting salary for the appointment will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experiences and qualification. We also offer an attractive pension scheme along with some great company benefits! This is a full-time position, however we will be happy to discuss options regarding part time flexibility, if you would like to highlight this on your application.
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing
As one of our Engineers you’ll help in identifying and escalating risks based on plant performance and complying with technical standards to mitigate hazards. You’ll also provide oversight of scheduled maintenance, involvement with planning and governance of outages, engineering solutions for outdated practices and resolution of emergent faults affect safety or generation.
You’ll also be responsible for maintaining the equipment reliability of our plant and systems through proactive management of the maintenance catalogue. You’ll adopt a rigorous response to losses and monitoring and evaluation of system and component status.
Who you are
As our Engineering positions fall within the Protech competence model, you must hold a HNC or above in order to have your application considered.
We’re looking for individuals that are passionate about Nuclear, and wanting to work with other like-minded Engineers and Technicians to achieve safe, reliable performance of plant systems on a Nuclear Power Station.
You’ll be naturally focused on safety, quality, time and cost and have the ability to identity and resolve risks on plant. We’d expect you to have demonstrable experience of delivering improvement projects under demanding operational pressures without impacting quality, whilst thinking dynamically, balancing multiple inputs. Having worked within regulated environments is key, as such experience of working to regulatory requirements and process safety elements such as DSEAR, Electricity at Work or PSSR (2000) and Nuclear Site License would be beneficial.
You’ll be able to demonstrate a high level of self-motivation, drive and ‘can-do’ attitude whilst being able to project the same levels of motivation and eagerness to succeed onto team members and other colleagues across the Station.
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.