Maintenance Engineer
Operations & Supply ChainPosted 14 Jul 2026
Advertised as “EGTL Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical)”
Posted 14 Jul 2026
Advertised as “EGTL Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical)”
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
| Base salary | £53,000 – £77,000 / yr |
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CertificationsInstitute of Occupational Safety and Health – Managing Safely
Field of studyEngineering (or related)
Study levelCertificate
Assist in managing and co-ordinating the activities of the M&O teams and contractors to ensure delivery of the maintenance and operations strategy for the EGTL >2000MW (multi-location) asset. This includes the planning and delivery of minor projects, breakdown and opportunity outages.
We are Uniper
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. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!
Your responsibilities
• Own the maintenance performance of the designated planner group(s) across EGTL
• Engage in the planning and scheduling of site maintenance and operations activities in compliance with company and local procedures.
• Manage and report on key technical and maintenance performance indicators to deliver the asset health standards.
• Lead a culture of health, safety and environmental management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of M&O plans and drive productivity improvement.
• Lead a culture of quality management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
• Ensure compliance with company and local procedures.
• Lead the review of maintenance spares holdings and stock level optimisation.
• Lead the delivery management of maintenance contracts in full compliance with defined contract roles and nominations.
• Support the Governance & Strategy Team to develop efficient and effective contracting strategies.
• Lead all short-term breakdown and opportunity outages and provide support to long term planned outages to ensure they are delivered safely to programme, budget, and quality within Outage Best Practice.
• Lead the selection, ongoing assessment and development of Uniper apprentices.
• Ensure best practice is employed by networking and benchmarking comparisons with other departments, plants, engineers, industries and Uniper teams (Asset Management, Procurement, Finance) to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capital expenditure.
Your profile
• Desired Education to a Higher National Certificate level in Engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive technical knowledge of power plant operations, engineering and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• An understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards and a positive safety mind set possessing the ability to drive the correct safety culture in others including a safety management qualification (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health – Managing Safely )
• Full understanding of and ability to deliver SAP & Maintenance best practice.
• Planning and organising skills to include effective prioritising, resource management and a long term strategic focus.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships with the ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
• Sound financial, commercial and contract management skills.
• The confidence to challenge established practices, suggesting imaginative solutions to problems.
• Knowledge of current policies and procedures which affect the management and operations of engineering assets & CCGT Fleet Management Centre.
• Able to think rationally but act positively when under pressure.
• Able to identify and analyse situations by isolating key issues evaluating relevant data and drawing appropriate conclusions.
Your qualities
At Uniper, we not only 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:
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. Energy evolutionary wanted!
Your contact
Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager
dominic.lindsey@uniper.energy
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.
Job information
Contract type:
Unlimited
Working Hours:
Full Time
Start Date:
ASAP
Deadline:
06/02/2026
Salary:
£53,000 - £77,000
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.