Trainee Mechanical Engineer United Kingdom
Jersey Electricity
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you want to learn and develop into an effective Mechanical Engineer? You will assist the Senior Mechanical Engineer and the Engineering team in providing effective management and leadership within the Mechanical Maintenance team.
You will ensure asset/system reliability and stability, value for money, manpower efficiency, technical compliance, and high safety standards whilst upholding the Company’s purpose, vision and values.
You will ensure asset/system reliability and stability, value for money, manpower efficiency, technical compliance, and high safety standards whilst upholding the Company’s purpose, vision and values.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Mechanical Maintenance Team in maintaining mechanical assets as agreed with the Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer and his Engineering team.
- Assisting the Mechanical Maintenance team to ensure that all team members are fully engaged, and where required, monitoring progress.
- Collaborate with the team in any required research, working with other relevant external and internal service providers and experts in the relevant disciplines/fields, ensuring that there is a comprehensive understanding of the Business needs both presently and in the future and that research knowledge is applied and developed where relevant to enhance engineering and business practice.
- Develop and maintain an appropriate professional relationship with relevant networks of support and personal development (CPD).
- Work on large projects, providing assistance where needed, for the Project Engineers and liaising with the Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer ensuring that projects meet the standards set out in the project specification.
- Supervise and account for appointed Contractors, ensuring compliance to JE standards and adherence to contract via comprehensive monitoring and reporting systems.
- Development of the Energy Division Procedures associated with the Mechanical Maintenance team ensuring that appropriate formal procedures are produced, understood and practiced.
- Ensure appropriate compliance with HS&E, Company procedures, Energy Division Safety Rules, and Industry best practice, ensuring that appropriate auditable records are kept.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Skills
- Potential and willingness to develop Leadership and Management skills
- Practical experience of utility principles and practices
- Excellent Computer skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Effective interpersonal and team building skills
- Strong customer service focus
Level of experience
- Experienced technician in utilities role
Specific qualifications and training:
- Graduate Mechanical Engineer; or
- HNC in Mechanical Engineering and working towards a BSC in mechanical Engineering.
- IOSH Managing Safely.
Other desirable qualities:
- Industrial experience
- I.C.E experience
- Excellent IT skills with ideally; knowledge of Asset Maintenance Programs.
Key Behavioural Indicators
Reliability:
- Supporting colleagues, customers and stakeholders in the pursuit of outstanding results.
- Giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback in a professional and objective manner
- Sharing views, ideas and opinions openly and taking cabinet responsibility once a decision has been reached, even it is not always what they would have wanted.
Teamwork:
- Building Stakeholder relationships through delivering against promises.
- Providing advice, challenge and support fo all stakeholders.
- Role models the JE values and challenges those who don't
Excellence:
- Strives to deliver high quality levels of service to both internal and external stakeholders. Analytical with attention to detail committed to continuous improvement.
Responsibility:
- Taking personal responsibility for their individual, team and departmental goals.
- Delivers against their promises and raises any concerns at the earliest opportunity.
Customer Focus
- Ensuring an ethical approach is taken in all business decisions, ensuring Equality and Diversity is embedded in all we do.
- Puts themselves into the shoes of the stakeholder showing appropriate levels of empathy and support.
Safety
- Demonstrable commitment to health and wellbeing in the workplace as well as the promotion of a safety focused culture through active participation and support of safety matters.
Benefits
Jersey Electricity provides excellent benefits, catered towards financial, physical and mental wellbeing. Starting with private medical insurance, discounted electricity rates, discounts within our Powerhouse shop and subsidies on EVs, gym memberships, and organised sports and activities groups. We offer competitive salaries combined with an attractive pension. We are family-friendly and strive to give you a great work-life balance to both love your job and do great work.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
About Jersey Electricity
At Jersey Electricity, our vision is to enable life’s essentials and inspire a zero carbon future. We are committed to our customers and employees and share values of Safety, Customer Focus, Responsibility, Reliability, Teamwork and Excellence.
We are an engaged and focused workforce, committed to ensuring we “keep the lights on” across the island and explore new ways of providing energy and related services to islanders. Working at Jersey Electricity means you are part of a “family” of nearly 400 employees across a number of diverse business sectors from the distribution of energy to Retail and Commercial services.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.
Whatever your role with us, you will find the support you need to develop in a long-term career and work with many long-serving employees to help us achieve our vision.
Being an employee of Jersey Electricity, you will:
- Share in the success of ground-breaking projects to electrify the island;
- Be part of a highly skilled and developing workforce;
- Participate in company-wide wellbeing initiatives;
- Develop both professionally and personally in a supportive environment;
- Benefit from a competitive rewards and compensation package;
- Help us develop our engaged, diverse and innovative workforce;
What our employees say:
“The employees, and the support from colleagues who I work with on a day to day basis, are helpful and friendly making it an attractive place to work”
“Great team with a manager who understands outside life and flexibility when needed”
“Real sense of purpose to enable life's essentials in Jersey - and real ability to make a difference to support a low carbon world”
“I think JE is a great place to work with fantastic people, variety of career opportunities , lots of challenges and great values”
“It’s a really good company to work for, highly recommended to anyone to join Jersey Electricity”
“It's a great team with some really kind people who will often go the extra mile. Also great to work somewhere that is so crucial to island life and knowing that if we do our jobs well it benefits everyone”
Application Deadline
October 08, 2023
Department
Energy
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
Jersey, Channel Islands
Workplace type
Onsite
Reporting To
Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
Jersey Electricity
www.jec.co.uk
Saint Helier, Guernsey
Geoffrey J. Grime
$100 to $500 million (USD)
201 to 500 Employees
Company - Public
Architectural & Engineering Services
