Power Station Recruitment

ASTUTE’s Power Station Division comprises a team of Consultants with a genuine passion for the sector. Their challenge is to keep abreast of the latest technologies, as exciting new methods of Power Generation develop, especially with the need to consider ways of combatting climate change and reducing CO2 emissions. Our work in this sector is diverse, from working with some of the biggest Power Station Operators, through to the relatively small, but rapidly expanding, Biomass market. We partner with companies who are involved in Power Generation, Renewable / Sustainable Energy, and Energy / Carbon Management.

Some of our key projects within Power Generation have been to ‘crew-up’ complete new build Power Plant facilities with a full compliment of O&M staff. Assignments have successfully been completed in the UK, and also overseas, supplying Resident Engineers in Dubai, Plant Managers in Africa and Construction Managers in Italy.

Key Projects: New Build 840MW CCGT Power Station

ASTUTE recently partnered with a large player in the Energy sector, on a new build CCGT Power Station. Involved from an early stage, we developed a Recruitment Strategy aimed at the complete “crewing-up” of Technical / Engineering staff for the site. This strategy involved educating the Plant Manager / Senior Management about the timescales involved in a large recruitment drive, the publications (Both local and national) we would need to utilise, and possible difficulties which we may encounter. The project gained sign off, and we successfully sourced candidates, starting with Senior Management through to Shift / Maintenance Team Leaders, and subsequent Technicians within both Maintenance and Operations. We demonstrated an ability to provide an advisory service, and a recruitment drive to rapidly source a complete technical Engineering workforce.

Typical Jobs in the Power Station Sector:

Plant Managers/ Station Managers

Engineering Managers/ Maintenance Managers

Operations Managers/ Production Managers

Shift Operations Engineers/ Technicians

Maintenance Engineers/ Technicians

Operations Shift Team Leaders/ Technicians

Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineers

Plant Performance Engineers

Boiler / Rotating Equipment Engineers

Health & Safety Managers

Project Managers - Consent, Construction, Ongoing Management

Business Development Managers

QA/ QC Engineers

Mechanical / Asset Engineers

CDM Coordinators

Electrical / Mechanical Design Engineers

Operations and Maintenance Trainers

For further information about roles in the Power Station sector please contact ASTUTE’s Head of Power Stations Division, Matt Dickens on 02392 221 600 or e-mail mdickens@astutetechnical.co.uk