EC&I Technician

Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

The Role

We are on the search for a new EC&I Technician to join our growing team in Spalding! You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of our priorities and provide crucial EC&I support to optimise plant availability. You’ll play an important role in ensuring Spalding remains reliable and flexible while still achieving high standards of safety, quality, and environmental performance. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a significant impact in the power generation industry!

This is a full-time day working role with flexibility needed for out of hours/on-call support when needed.

The Spalding Team

We’re a close-knit team of highly skilled and experienced individuals who are dedicated to our vision of Operational Excellence. We embody a culture of safety, reliability, and enterprise which delivers flagship levels of plant performance and keeps us all engaged and energised in our mission - providing dependable and efficient Megawatts to help power the UK.

The Spalding site is a friendly, sociable, and exciting environment and when we’re not hard at work, you can expect regular social events and seasonal gatherings.

Role Summary

• Maintenance & Reliability: Support plant availability through safe and effective maintenance activities. Provide ECI expertise to engineers and discipline leads. Use the Maintenance Management System (MMS) to manage tasks, spares, and history records. Ensure all work is planned, prioritised, and completed in a timely manner.

• Technical Support & Team Collaboration: Deputise for the ECI Lead and support delivery of operational priorities. Supervise contract workforce and provide hands-on technical support. Contribute to staff appraisals, training delivery, and development. Promote a culture of multi-skilling and continuous improvement.

• Compliance & Documentation: Ensure adherence to company procedures, ISIs, SSIs, and modification protocols. Review and update procedures and technical drawings as required. Produce accurate WOCs/RAMs and ensure proper sign-off for safety documentation. Maintain quality standards in all supervised or direct work.

• Outage & Equipment Management: Plan and supervise contract support during outages. Maintain critical equipment, including Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS). Ensure core training in Electrical and C&I systems is completed.

• Operational & Strategic Support: Attend daily operational meetings and support production priorities. Assist in loss of load investigations and deliver corrective actions. Support budget control and procurement to ensure value for money. Participate in projects and initiatives delegated by the ECI Lead.

• Flexibility and Availability: Be on call and adapt working patterns to meet business needs. Fulfil roles and responsibilities as defined in company safety rules and procedures. Actively engage in HSSE initiatives.

Why you?

As our new EC&I Technician, you’re technically minded, and solutions driven with a background in power generation or other heavy industry/technical production environments. You have a strong understanding of operational and maintenance practices within a CCGT power plant and gas/steam turbines like technical drawings, computer aided MMS and instrumentation and vibration monitoring. You are confident working with control systems (DCS, SCADA and PLC’s) like infi90, T3000, GE MKVIe and Siemens S7. You’ll bring knowledge of switchgear and generators, motors and transformers as well as experience in instrument calibrations and repair. Your flexible personality, critical thinking and strong initiative help you make informed decisions and give you the confidence to have technical discussions that support plant safety and reliability.

Your mindset is what will set you apart, If you’re a true team player who’s eager to learn, develop yourself further and strive to perform at your very best while encouraging others to do the same, then we’d love to hear from you!

Education/Experience

HNC/HND in a relevant field preferred but we are open to candidates with the right practical experience and attitude.

PLC/software programming skills would be an advantage but not essential as training for the right candidate can be provided.

What we offer

• 262.5 hours holiday leave (35 days, including bank holidays).

• Discretionary bonus scheme of 10%

• Pension Scheme – 8% Employer contribution, increasing to 11% after 5 years’ service

• Life Assurance

• Income Protection

• Private Medical Insurance – individual & family cover

• Health & Wellbeing Allowance of £650 per year

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Company Sick Pay Scheme

• Eyecare Vouchers

• Savings & Discounts Platform

• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity benefits

• Educational Assistance & Training Allowances

Why InterGen?

No matter where you are based, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and teamwork are championed.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and you will help us foster a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes and help shape our culture.

We provide a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees. We believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you with yours by offering the development resources you need to advance your career.

With the strength of our company and reputation behind you, a culture of high-performance that motivates you and the freedom to drive your career your way, our shared purpose and values will inspire you to make an impact in an organisation whose vision is working towards a world with stable and dependable energy for generations.

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