Electrical Engineer

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a talented and experienced Electrical Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will oversee all electrical maintenance activities ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable execution. You will collaborate closely with Control and Instrumentation and Mechanical Engineers to ensure optimize plant equipment, enhance performance, and maximize asset availability. By doing so, you will contribute to the long‑term health and value of the plant, while ensuring strict adherence to health, safety, and environmental standards.

If you are passionate about engineering excellence and making a meaningful impact, we invite you to apply and be part of our innovative team. Vital Energi—Port Clarence—Strategic asset ownership journey. Port Clarence represents the next phase of Vital Energi’s evolution from energy solutions provider to significant asset owner, processing 320,000 tonnes of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and producing over 30 Mwe.

This marks a substantial step‑change in scale and ambition. Vital Energi will further invest in the optimisation of the Drakelow EfW plant to improve its productivity and returns, ensuring it continues to deliver robust operational and financial performance as part of the company’s growing portfolio. The energy generated by both facilities will be exported back to the national grid.

• Delivers and maintains high standards relating to health and safety performance and culture, environmental compliance and site housekeeping.
• Comply with and actively participate in Company rules, procedures, initiatives, in particular those relating to Health, Safety, environmental management, quality systems and continuous improvement.
• Complies fully with corporate safety rules, site safety rules and associated safe systems of work, PTW, LOTO, RAMS & authorization procedures to ensure that the plant is always maintained within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
• Assists with the development, maintenance and implementation of operating and emergency instructions and procedures following OEM operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ensures conformance to relevant statutory requirements.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organisation’s policies and applicable laws.
• Responsible for efficient planning and execution of all Electrical maintenance activities where you will work closely with the Maintenance Manager to ensure and promote productivity of power plant.
• Acts as Site Control Person interfacing with Area Grid Operator.
• Thoroughly and promptly investigates any accidents or near misses in conjunction with management team to ensure that any unsafe practices or conditions are addressed and eliminated immediately.
• Reports and communicates incidents as per the incident reporting systems.
• Attends team safety meetings and lead meetings where necessary.
• Keep abreast of changes to safety and environmental legislation and all relevant Company policies.
• Ensures that a work order, risk assessment and method statements are produced for each activity and that all documents are completed in accordance with the Company CMMS procedures.
• Assists in the delivery of improvements by identifying issues, making recommendations and implementing plans.
• Assists with investigations into plant and process issues including root cause analysis, providing technical expertise, evaluating process variables, maintaining records, writing reports and taking appropriate action to ensure plant operations remain within design and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures that the plant is maintained in accordance with the prescribed O&M guidelines or approved instructions following analysis of operational history and plant information.
• Works with team leaders and engineers to ensure that first line diagnosis and maintenance activities in conjunction with current procedures is carried out in order to preserve the highest levels of safety, environmental compliance, plant integrity and availability.
• Responsible for planning and managing electrical maintenance activities during plant outages.

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