Utilities Engineer - Electrical

Utilities Engineer – Electrical – Aldermaston, Berkshire, RG7 4PR

Job Type: Full-Time. Salary:
Additional Benefits.

Location – Aldermaston (Reading/Basingstoke area) with free onsite parking.

Package – Starting from £39,280 (dependent on experience).

Working pattern – AWE operates a 9‑day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle.

Ready to play your part?

At AWE, it’s not just a job, it’s far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?

We are currently recruiting for a Utilities Engineer – Electrical to join our team working across our Aldermaston estate.

As a Utilities Engineer (Electrical), you will deliver professional engineering services to enable the Utilities Engineering Team Leader to provide utility services to facilities, assets and equipment required by AWE.

Typical activities include electrical design, design reviews, calculations, change control, load coordination, strategic assessments, configuration control, asset management, reliability engineering and other tasking as directed.

A Utilities Engineer works closely with operational areas, project teams, capital projects, design and technical authorities, senior management, and other estate areas.

As the ideal candidate, you should have experience of working with electrical networks across regulated sites, including production, manufacturing or industrial environments.

You’ll be expected to:

• Adherence to management system requirements for utilities engineering activities.
• Provide engineering intelligence to utilities engineering.
• Delivery of engineering tasks for utilities networks.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

• Apply domain and technical knowledge for design, as-built standards and through life system performance for relevant network plant and equipment.
• Ensure availability of utilities plant, equipment and infrastructure within relevant networks.
• Maintain configuration baseline and provide load connection and disconnection authorisations for relevant networks.
• Provide specialist engineering knowledge for design, installation, commissioning and troubleshooting on network plant equipment and infrastructure.
• Identify and elevate business risk associated with the condition and performance of network plant equipment and infrastructure.
• Optimise delivery of utilities engineering services.
• Ensure compliance for relevant network plant and equipment.
• Maintain continuous professional development.
• Fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

• A Technician Apprenticeship or ONC in Electrical with suitable additional experience, or (desirable), HNC to Accredited Honours degree or suitable equivalent.
• Prior operational and engineering experience in an industrial or utilities environment, in HV/LV, generation, distribution, and building services.
• Ability to provide engineering capability across relevant networks, comprising a range of infrastructure facilities and associated plant and equipment.
• Ability to solve complex problems/issues using tested solutions, i.e. cable calculations using industry-standard software.
• Experience of working in a highly regulated environment with an understanding of nuclear and explosives area requirements.

Candidates must be willing and able to apply, obtain and maintain the required security clearance for the role.

You will need the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority-changing environment, manage your own workload, and be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible and able to work to tight deadlines.

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award‑winning benefits:

• 9‑day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
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