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Electrical Engineering Lead
Aztec West, Bristol - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.
Are you degree qualified in a technical discipline? Do you have broad experience in the nuclear industry including knowledge of nuclear safety cases. Are you looking to develop your expertise and in the exciting and challenging environment of new nuclear build?
If so, join us as an Electrical Engineering Lead and you’ll join one of the most exciting and ambitious projects within EDF, as we continue to lead the rebirth of nuclear in the UK.
The Opportunity...
As an Electrical Engineering Lead, you will be working with a wide network of stakeholders and attending an array of meetings to ensure you stay fully in touch across the project. In this role you’ll be establishing frameworks and small project structures with a focus on pragmatic decision making, delivering solutions and mitigation of issues.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to be part of building one of the largest, most complex projects in Europe; something vital to the country’s future energy needs.
Pay, benefits and culture…
Alongside a salary from £60,000, we offer a competitive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle, and the opportunity to earn bonus.
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing…
- Solving cross-functional technical issues which would not be resolved, achieving a best-for-project solution with a schedule-conscious approach.
- Providing a decisive escalation route for issues which are deadlocked and a catalyst for innovative optioneering.
- Working with the programmes and the technical teams on prioritisation and emerging scope topics, maximising the efficiency and value of delivery.
- Global risk management - Understanding risks and keep up to date risk tracking.
- Specific risk management - Bringing issues back under control when they start to escalate, putting in place mitigation plans and working with the technical and programme teams to bring an issue back under control.
- Advocating for pragmatic decision making which respects the overall aims of the project.
- Producing and driving mitigation plans for risks and issues, ensuring they are delivery focused. There will also be a strong focus on optioneering and governance decisions, ensuring these are fit for purpose and made at the right level.
- Managing the provision of engineering services for HPC project, achieving suitable technical outcomes with a focus on value engineering and optimisation.
Who you are…
Your background may include some of the following:
- Degree level qualification in a relevant technical discipline (i.e. engineering, science, maths).
- Broad experience in the nuclear industry including knowledge of nuclear safety cases.
- Experience in instrumentation or low voltage electrical components is a plus.
- Experience across the project lifecycle which may include design, manufacture, construction/installation, commissioning, and operations.
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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