Shift Operations & Maintenance Technician

Kings Lynn Shift Operations & Maintenance Technician

Location Kings Lynn

Contract Type Permanent

Working Hours Full time Shift

Closing Date 21st November 2025

We have a rewarding opportunity for Shift Operations & Maintenance Technicians to join us at Kings Lynn power station!

Kings Lynn is a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant with a capacity of 382MW and can meet the needs of up to 400000 households. The highly flexible plant has an efficiency of 54 percent.

An exciting future awaits at Kings Lynn as we continue to grow to be a key part of the RWE UK Gas portfolio.

Main Purpose of the Role

As a member of the Operations and Maintenance Team you will contribute towards delivering the safe reliable operation and commercial performance of our plant along with supporting ongoing continuous improvements to maximise the potential of the station within the RWE Gas UK portfolio. The post holder will be responsible for operating Kings Lynn plant locally from the Central Control Room working with the Remote Support provided by Staythorpe Power Station. This will include fault diagnosis and breakdown recovery.

We will require you to perform O&M duties on a shift basis as required as well as collaborating with site-based maintenance team supporting with plant outages and recommissioning as required. As the trend towards growing volumes of renewable generation continues you should expect maintenance routines to form a growing part of your core role.

Key Responsibilities

• Health Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Operate our CCGT plant in accordance with recognised standards.
• Undertaking the duties required of you under RWE Safety Rules to operate a safe system of work.
• Maintenance activities.
• Emergency response.
• Outage support.

Knowledge & Skills

• Have a recognised engineering or operations background or craft skill in an electrical mechanical or C&I discipline. HNC ONC or equivalent.
• Prior process operations and maintenance experience.
• Have effective interpersonal skills and be proficient in the use of applicable business IT systems such as Microsoft Office SAP.
• Be a self-motivated versatile individual able to work with minimum supervision whilst being able to provide support to the team.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health Safety and Environmental legislation regulations and directives.
• Values and Behaviours Role modelling the RWE desired behaviours; Trust Passion and Performance. This will mean working with others in an open transparent and consistent way and in a manner that demonstrably puts the needs of RWE Generation ahead of individual departmental or personal objectives.
• Possess an understanding of safety management systems including safe systems of work e.g. permit to work systems.
• Flexible and creative in their approach to supporting the Station and Portfolio through flexible working hours and application of skills.
• Ability and willingness to retrain and develop new skills.

What we will offer you

• Up to 10% annual bonus
• A personal retirement savings plan if you put in 5% we will top up by a further 10% and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro-rata
• Company Paid Private Medical Insurance for you and your family
• One free professional membership subscription
• Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness Dental Plan Health Cash Plan Share Incentive Plan Cycle2Work Electric Car Lease Scheme Buy Additional Annual Leave (subject to operational needs) and retail savings scheme.
• Occupational Health support services for your wellbeing
• Access to our employee assistance programme in times of need
• Up to 2 days volunteering a year

What we offer our people

As well as a competitive starting salary band from 43482 to 56270 depending upon skills and experience a shift allowance of 12746 per annumand an impressive benefits package which includes a 10%bonus opportunity pension healthcare and 25 days holiday youll also get the opportunity to craft the future of our business. Along the way well give you all the support you need to develop your skill set and meet your long-term goals.

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Equal Opportunities

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications irrespective of gender disability nationality ethnic and social background religion and beliefs age or sexual orientation and identity.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our energy for a sustainable life

RWE represents change innovation and sustainability. As one of the worlds leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To do this we are looking for resourceful and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.

RWE in the UK

We operate a large and diverse portfolio of power generation assets in the UK. We are the UKs second largest generator of thermal flexible capacity supplying around 10% of the UKs electricity last year with 8.6GW of installed capacity. The portfolio includes the UKs largest fleet of gas-fired power stations along with a small amount of Biomass and Hydro plants.