Salary £60,000 - £70,000
Closing date: 27 November
Want to put your engineering skills to work across hydro sites and remote assets? As an EC&I Engineer at Drax, you’ll help solve complex plant challenges and deliver control-system improvements, taking projects from initial requirements through to commissioning and handover.
You’ll split your time between home, our Glasgow office and our nine other sites located from Loch Awe to Dumfries and Galloways, travelling to wherever your expertise is needed. It’s a role that combines technical project work with on-site engineering support.
Whether you’ve recently completed a graduate scheme or already have experience in a similar role, this is an opportunity to broaden your engineering experience.
In this role, you’ll:
Experience in or wanting to focus on control and automation would be an advantage, which would see you:
You’ll bring a degree in Electrical Engineering or EC&I, alongside relevant engineering industry experience. You may already be a Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership — and we can support you on that journey.
A NEBOSH or IOSH certificate is preferred but isn’t essential.
You’ll need a full UK driving licence to travel between sites and fulfil the field-based aspects of the role.
We’re not just talking about making a difference, we’re making it happen. We generate dispatchable, renewable power and create stable energy in an uncertain world. Building on our proud heritage, we have ambition to become the global leader in sustainable biomass and carbon removals.
You’ll be joining our teams of practical doers, future thinkers and business champions. We’re enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all, and working hard to decarbonise the planet for generations to come.
Alongside a salary of £60,000–£70,000, you’ll receive a range of rewards and benefits to support your career and life outside work:
· A discretionary bonus
· Private Healthcare
· SAYE (Sharesave): discretionary scheme from time to time
· Personal accident cover
· Group personal pension plan where we’ll pay up to 10%
· Holiday 25 days plus bank holidays
· Reimbursement of the cost of your annual membership of one relevant and appropriate professional body
We’re committed to making a tangible impact on the climate challenge we all face. Drax is where your individual purpose can work alongside your career drive. We work as part of a team that shares a passion for doing what’s right for the future. With Drax you can shape your career and a future for generations to come.
Together, we make it happen.
At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background. Find out more about our approach here.
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Drax is enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
The Group employs 3,400 people in the UK and North America.
Enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future is Drax Group’s purpose and in 2019, it announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technology to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere at scale whilst delivering reliable renewable electricity.
