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EC&I Engineering Placement – Engineering and Outage

* Location – TBA

* Contract Type – 13-month FTC

* Working Hours – Full time

* Closing Date – 27.10.24 or advert will close early if sufficient applications are received.

About the role

Are you interested in an engineering placement with one of the UK’s largest energy producers?

Our Engineering and Outage group has an exciting industrial placement opportunity, and are looking for a motivated team member with excellent interpersonal skills!

RWE's Gas Engineering and Outage (E&O) Group supports our European RWE portfolio in the UK, Holland and Germany, we support the outages and projects across the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) Power plants, within this group, our C&I (Control & Instrumentation) and Electrical Teams are responsible for the management of all associated aspects of work across these disciplines.

Your opportunity

You will be responsible for providing key engineering support to ensure our fleet of power stations can be operated safely, efficiently and with the greatest possible commercial flexibility.

The placement may be based at any of the existing RWE Generation sites across the UK or our headquarters in Swindon.

During your placement, you may be required to:

* Undertake data analysis to diagnose problems to help in both long and short-term projects.

* Gain important on-site experience and valuable hands-on practical skills and training.

* Support development of the asset integrity processes and systems.

* Deliver on plant improvement projects and plant investigations.

* Assist in delivery work packages in large station outages.

You will receive on-the-job training, attend courses and workshops for your personal development. You will gain first-hand technical industrial experience and transferrable skills that are desired by all employers.

Job Requirements and Experience

We’d love to hear from you!

Ideally, you should be pursuing a BEng or MEng Engineering or Science degree at an undergraduate level.

What we will offer you

* An expected starting salary of £23,628

* 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

* 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 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