Here's what you'll be doing
Salary - £61,601-£74,963 plus company car/car allowance
Location- East London
At E.ON UK we offer sustainable energy solutions for homes, businesses and communities and we’re passionate about helping people to reduce their impact on the environment. We’re supporting businesses with their net zero targets, helping local communities upgrade their homes and collaborating with local authorities to transform towns and cities for a more sustainable future.
Right now, we’re looking for an Energy Centre Manager to take responsibility, through others, for the planning and management of all operations and maintenance activities at our London Energy Centre Sites. Here you’ll manage appropriate contract resources, ensuring the assets are maintained to allow the safe and efficient operation within budget at all times.
You’ll also be responsible for the development and delivery of medium to long term operations and maintenance strategies for the Energy Centre Assets including the management of safety, technical governance and risk management.
This is a substantial role with the scope to make a real impact. If you’re a talented leader with an engineering background give your career an energy boost and apply today!
Key Responsibilities
- Providing visible Health & Safety leadership, ensuring all aspects of safety standards and compliance are demonstrably achieved for your sites.
- Managing a team of Energy Centre Engineers. Driving performance, supporting development and establishing a positive culture of control, accountability and collaboration.
- Ensuring the reliable delivery of heat, chill and power to customers for your sites.
- Taking overall responsibility for the financial delivery of your sites in line with agreed targets. Ensuring the efficient and effective running of assets and control of costs.
- Developing, implementing and managing relevant services strategies and records to ensure Energy centres comply with all internal/external minimum standards.
- Effectively delivering Energy Centre planned /unplanned maintenance activities.
- Managing maintenance contracts and requirements.
- Undertaking analysis of plant issues, gaining necessary technical advice, decision making and contract management.
- Being forward looking and innovative in leading the maintenance delivery at the Energy Centres.
- Ensuring contractor performance is optimised utilising E.ON standards and policies.
What we need from you
- HND/HNC in Mechanical or Electrical engineering or equivalent and /or demonstratable significant experience.
- IOSH or equivalent safety qualification as a minimum.
- Authorised Engineer Status.
- Knowledge of District heating, CHP (Combined Heat and Power), or large-scale energy infrastructure.
- Proficient in risk management including risk assessments and hazard identification.
- Excellent understanding of commercial effects of sites operations & maintenance.
- Experience in making both managerial and technical decisions, ensuring smooth operations and effective problem-solving.
- Strong understanding of industry practices and procedures, with the ability to identify challenges, diagnose issues, and find innovative solutions.
- Proven experience in managing and developing engineering teams, ensuring accountability and performance.
- Ability to plan up to 5 years in advance.
Here’s what you need to know
There is a London allowance of up to £3,550 PA available for eligible candidates. This is an East London based role with travel required to other sites within the area. Due to the nature of this role candidates must live within 30-60 minutes of the M25.
There is possibility the successful candidate will join the manager on call rota 1 week in 7, receiving a standby retainer payment. Overtime for callouts will be paid in addition to this.
- Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and the Best Place to Work for 16–34-year-olds.
- Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.
- Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024. We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.
- Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. We’re also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year—recognising our inclusive, people-first culture.
- Support at Every Stage of Life - We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.
- Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria move forward to the next stage of our recruitment process, and will make any adjustments needed during the process.
- Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we’ll support your growth every step of the way.