Astute's Power team is partnering with a leading power company in the UK to recruit a Lead Mechanical Strategy Engineer for its Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) site in Kent.

The Lead Mechanical Strategy Engineer comes with a salary up to £71000 + private medical + benefits package.

If you're a Mechanical Engineer with experience building long-term maintenance strategies, writing contract specifications and planning outages then submit your CV to apply today.


Responsibilities and duties

Reporting to the Mechanical Team Leader you will:

• Develop and implement engineering and maintenance strategies, policies and procedures to achieve measured station performance.
• Carry out the assessment of critical plant and use of reliability centred maintenance techniques to review and optimise all planned and preventive maintenance activities on plant area of responsibility.
• Contribute to continuous improvement plan, conducting root cause analysis where required.
• Develop medium- and long-term improvement and investment strategies, including plant outage strategy, projecting major parts replacements.
• Manage the site's Asset Risk database to reflect significant changes.
• Mentor other strategy engineering within the team and provide technical support to the mechanical delivery team, who carry out day-to-day maintenance tasks on site.
• Design and delivery of technically complex project, with delegated management of outage and project work, ensuring it is completed within budget, and quality standards.
• Be the lead reviewer for plant modification, coordinating technical design reviews and approval for implementation.
• Work with operations, delivery and contracting teams to ensure maintenance strategy and running regime are optimised.

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• A HND in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• At least 5 years' experience in a maintenance environment in a heavy industrial environment (power station, refinery, petrochemical etc).
• Experience writing contract specifications, carrying out long term maintenance strategy planning and overseeing risk management in a similar environment.
• A strong understanding of power station operations, specifically Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGT).
• Ideally hold an IOSH or NEBOSH certificate.

Personal skills

The Lead Mechanical Strategy Engineer role would suit someone who:

• Has a good working knowledge of QHSE legislations and standards.
• Has a passion for fault-finding and problem solving.
• Has excellent planning and organisational skills.

Salary and benefits of the Lead Mechanical Strategy Engineer role

• Starting Salary of £60,000 - £71,000
• Benefits package including private medical insurance and 12% pension contributions.
• External training for staff that includes funding further qualifications (degree, project management (APM) etc).
• Opportunity to join a CCGT Power Station

INDPOW

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