Assistant Team Leader

Job Description

Assistant Team Leader

 As an Assistant Team Leader, you'll be at the heart of delivering safe, reliable power at Heysham 2 Power Station, with opportunities to support our UK-wide fleet. This role requires you to be on site 100% of the time.

The Opportunity

As an Assistant Team Leader, you'll be part of the Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group, responsible for maintaining Steam Turbines, Generators, and associated plant at various EDF sites. You'll support the fleet’s turbine and generator assets, working closely with the Operations Team Leader and Engineering. 

Pay, Benefits & Culture

The salary range associated with this role is between £55,577 to £70,077. You’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience, and qualifications. We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, 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. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you'll assist the Team Leader in managing a team of technicians to deliver plant maintenance. You'll play a hands-on role within your team, ensuring planned maintenance and emergent work requests are completed within agreed timescales. You'll support the delivery of work week plans and outage plans, spending time in the field monitoring and assessing technicians.

You'll actively perform and monitor setting to work, pre-job briefs, work practices, and daily priorities, clearly communicating these. You'll reinforce positive attitudes and nuclear professionalism behaviours to improve performance and achieve a safe working environment of Zero Harm. You'll also support continuous improvement initiatives.

Who You Are

You have substantial relevant experience in the nuclear industry, with at least 5 years of maintaining all aspects of Turbine Island equipment.

You have evidence of leading and supervising others, ideally during statutory outages, and a working knowledge of conducting outages.

You demonstrate knowledge of Outage Management and Work Management Processes and hold a HNC/D in a relevant technical discipline. You work safely within company and legislative requirements, identifying hazards associated with work activities and working environments.

Closing date for applications is 16th April, interviews will follow shortly after.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

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Additional Information

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