Job Description

About the Role

Gloucester Business Park, Gloucester or Atlantic Quay, Glasgow - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 2/3 days a week in the office.


Are you a motivated and curious

engineer

? Do you have experience or interest in

diesel engines

and

emergency generation

? Are you looking to

develop

your expertise while supporting EDF's fleet of power stations across the UK? If so, come and join EDF as an Emergency Diesels Engineer within our Nuclear Services Organisation, based in Gloucester or Glasgow with opportunities for home working and travel across the fleet!

The Opportunity

As a Diesel and Emergency Generation Engineer, you'll contribute to the design, manufacture, validation, testing, commissioning, operation and maintenance of diesel engines within a centralised technical services organisation, whilst developing expertise across other technical areas with training and support provided.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary of 65,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.


We're talking about everything from

enhanced parental leave

to

electric vehicle leasing, health insurance

to

product discounts, critical illness insurance

to

technology vouchers, gym membership

to

season ticket loans

.


At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.


Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.


We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.


We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing

You'll provide technical authority and expert advice on the design, operation, maintenance, and optimisation of emergency diesel generators, with the potential to expand into gas turbine emergency generation systems. Initially supporting new build projects, this role will develop into a long-term asset support position, offering opportunities to shape operational practices across the fleet.


You'll be responsible for delivering operational support and fault-finding expertise during emergent issues or breakdowns, as well as providing live support to permit the safe return of major plant to service. You'll also contribute safety case knowledge, ALARP optioneering, and risk-informed decision making, ensuring compliance with technical standards and governance requirements.


You'll monitor asset performance and plant degradation to highlight risks and optimise outage work-scopes, whilst championing best practices from within EDF and the wider industry. You'll also act as an expert witness, support acceptance and surveillance activities, and can grow deep technical expertise across a broad range of power plant assets.

Who you are

As a Diesel and Emergency Generation Engineer at EDF, you will have a Mechanical Engineering background (degree level / HNC / HND), with experience or interest in developing further knowledge and expertise. You will be pro-active and have the curiosity to develop deep technical and operational understanding of emergency generation plant items as well as broaden into other technical fields.


Ideally you will have existing knowledge and experience of Diesels Engines and Emergency Generation Plant Systems, including plant theory, faults and consequences, function, operation, degradation and maintenance optimisation.


If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you!

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

Closing date for applications: 16th September 2025

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