Uniper
EGTL Plant Area & Systems (Mechanical) Team Leader
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Head of Plant Operations & Systems – Governance, Risk & Compliance
About the Role
Lead a team and manage a designated plant area and systems across key dimensions:
- Governance, risk, and compliance
- Business planning & budget management
- Project & outage management
- Contract strategies & contract management
- Development & lifecycle of maintenance strategies
- Stakeholder management to drive business, departmental, and team operational targets
At Uniper
Uniper is proactively transforming the world of energy while ensuring energy supply security. As an international company, we operate in diverse teams with significant flexibility for staff. Our values include:
- Equal opportunities
- Mutual respect
- Sustainable & forward-thinking energy solutions
This role offers the opportunity to shape new business models, pioneer modern energy solutions, and lead impactful change.
Your Responsibilities
Ensure responsibility, efficiency, and compliance across plant operations through:
- Developing and implementing governance, risk, and compliance strategies to align plant operations with:
- Company GMI-PEM, MAN, and SHE management systems.
- Business planning & budget management:
- Collating and integrating plant engineering/business plans.
- Managing ** bouw teolog maintenance, operations, and capital budgets** effectively.
- Project & outage management:
- Overseeing projects from concept through delivery.
- Ensuring safety, quality, cost, and time targets are met.
- Contract strategies & management:
- Leading contract negotiations with sophisticated technical/commercial expertise.
- Optimising contract performance in high-risk technical/commercial areas.
- Maintenance strategy development:
- Establishing and refining technical, cost, and compliance-performing maintenance plans.
- Stakeholder engagement:
- Proactively fostering networks to achieve business targets.
- Implementing best practice benchmarking.
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Essential Experience & Qualifications
- Extensive experience in power plant engineering, maintenance, and operations.
- Degree-level engineering qualification (or equivalent HNC/D) with recognised expertise.
- Project management:
- Appropriate experience in managing high-value, high-risk power plant projects.
- APMP Level D qualified (or working toward Level C proficiency).
- Contract management:
- Full technical, financial, and risk insights, including performance & cost modelling.
- Experience negotiating/communicating complex technical contracts.
- CME-certified (Contractor Management and Engagement), fit for Nominated Engineer/ERep/ERSHE roles.
- Safety leadership:
- Deep knowledge of safety best practice and regenerative safety culture.
- NOBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) certified (or equivalent).
- Sustainability & planning:
- Proven operational excellence and change leadership qualities.
- First aid certification.
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Key Skills
- Leadership, negotiation, and highlighting risks to improve operational efficiency.
- Ability to challenge and innovate, prioritise resources, and adopt a long-term strategy.
- Strong interpersonal capabilities, confident mentoring, and ability to manage teams across cultural/technical differences.
- Strategic planning with focused risk aversion.
Your Qualities
Uniper offers both competitive rewards and a supportive professional environment, including:
- Compensation:
- Salary range: £75,000+
- Performance-based bonuses.
- Benefits:
- 26 days annual leave + paid holidays
- Electric vehicle charging at sites
- Occupational health support
- Enhanced pension scheme (up to 12% employer bonus)
- Private medical insurance and free GP access
- Work-life balance:
- Flexible work arrangements including home office support, holiday buy/sell flexibility.
- Career growth:
- Training, mentorship, and professional development targeted at unlocking skills.
- Global opportunities for development within Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) frameworks.
Join Us
Uniper promotes equality, inclusion, and flexible working. Create future impact – submit your application via our online portal by 19/03/2026.
For queries, contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager.
Note: CVs submitted via email are not accepted.
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