TAE Power Solutions
Senior Operations Engineer
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Please note - this role is based at our Dudley site, please ensure you have checked that you can commute to this location daily before applying.
About Us
TAE Power Solutions (TPS) is the electrification spin-off from TAE Technologies, a leader in nuclear fusion technology. The company is leveraging unique power management technology originally developed for nuclear fusion and applying it in adjacent industries including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and DC Fast Charging for electric vehicles.
About the Role
As Senior Operations Engineer, you’ll lead the development and day-to-day operation of our engineering workshops and facilities, ensuring they effectively support both project delivery and production activity. You’ll take ownership of mechanical and electrical maintenance, drive facility upgrades aligned with business priorities, and oversee PPM, subcontractor activity, and all calibration and upgrade work.
You’ll champion high operational standards across EHS and 5S, ensuring requirements are clearly understood and consistently applied. You’ll also manage asset control through the maintenance database, keeping our equipment and facilities running safely, efficiently and reliably.
- Support Projects and Test Facility demands, meet timings and to specifications.
- Develop test facility capability in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain test facility operating standards to meet legislative and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure the facilities workshops operate in a safe and compliant manner, ensuring all activities have appropriate equipment, and instruction of facility function.
- Maintain good housekeeping 5S methodology across site operations.
- Lead Preventive Planned Maintenance requirements.
- Support and maintain subcontracts for test, facilities and specialist equipment.
- Support Health and Safety process improvements and implementation.
- Liaise with contractors and develop appropriate relationships.
- Ensure facilities and maintenance management meet the ISO9001 standard requirements.
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Qualifications, Functional Experience & Skills
Required
- Qualified to City & Guilds /HNC level in Mechanical and / or Electrical Engineering discipline, IEE 17th edition an advantage.
- Proven practical multi-skilled engineering experience in maintenance and Workshop skills.
- Facility development experience.
- Preventive Planned Maintenance experience.
- Issue management and reporting.
- Ability to prioritize tasks in a demanding environment.
- Good 5S methodology discipline.
About Us:
Imagination, skill, and will
At TAE Power Solutions, we design power systems that use less but do more. Systems that charge faster, run stronger, go farther, and last longer. We inspire better ways to move, work, play, and live. The future is electric, because it’s powered by TAE.
Confident, collaborative, and creative
We are unwavering in our expertise and knowledge, separating fact from fiction and proof from hypothesis.
You will be a successful member of TAE Power Solutions if you have these traits:
- You are confident in your skills, based on your credentials, technical accomplishments, and positive impact on your teams/organizations.
- You are collaborative and work well within and with teams to approach challenges with respect, transparency, optimism, and confidence to succeed together.
- You are creative, with determination to learn continuously, break new ground, and push the cutting edge.
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TAE Power Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
We ensure all individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
At TAE Power Solutions, we consider a wide range of factors when making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and job-related knowledge, training; licenses and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements depending on the position offered (non-Sr., Sr., Lead or Manager).
Note to Agencies: TAE prefers to hire directly and maintains an existing preferred supplier list. We do not accept speculative CVs or referrals from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable.
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