Job Description

We currently have an opening in our dynamic Fuel Route Technical Advice Group for a Technical Advice Engineer to join our team at Heysham 1.

The Opportunity

You’ll work as part of a multi-disciplined team with responsibilities for maintenance, inspection, improvement of nuclear fuel handling plant and in-service inspections, ensuring that all work, including supervision of Contractors, is carried out in full compliance with statutory regulations, Company and site directives.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a competitive salary depending on experience, and a market-leading pension scheme. Your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

Here at EDF UK, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, 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. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What You’ll Be Doing

As one of our Fuel Route Technical Advice Engineers you’ll investigate and identify plant faults and prepare instructions for their rectification; manage routine and defect maintenance, ensuring that plant is maintained and modified in accordance with the Site Licence. You’ll review and monitor the plant systems and initiate improvements to give high equipment reliability. Other roles and responsibilities also include:

• You’ll analyse and provide engineering solutions to plant defects and where necessary provide plant modifications and solutions to plant problems
• You shall investigate and identify plant faults and prepare instructions for their rectification
• You’ll manage routine and defect maintenance, ensuring that plant is maintained and modified in accordance with the site licence and maintenance fundamentals

• Maximise effective use of time and personal ability working flexibly within own range of competence, undertaking the appropriate training and development to extend skills and abilities to meet the needs of the business
• Continually monitor and analyse Fuel Route risks, maintenance history and defect trends, proposing and implementing solutions where trends indicate an unacceptable level of systems availability or manpower utilisation
• Working with the Fuel Route System Health team to manage the specification and implementation of plant modifications/improvements; update existing and prepare new maintenance and operational instructions

This is a front-line role – you will respond to emergent defects and help manage planned maintenance in order to keep the fuel route running smoothly.

Who you are

As our new Fuel Route TAG Engineer, you’ll demonstrate the ability to analyse problems to determine root causes, recognising weaknesses in equipment and being able to propose realistic improvements at a component or system level. You’ll be enthusiastic and flexible with strong communication skills.

You should possess appropriate Electrical or C&I Engineering experience of maintenance and/or plant modifications.

A knowledge of the Fuel Route Systems and maintenance is desirable.

To be appointed in the role, you should be educated to a minimum HNC/HND or Degree level or equivalent in an Engineering biased subject.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday April 14th and interviews will be held week commencing Monday April 27th

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.   

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