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About your team:
At Centrica Energy Storage +, our mission is to store it.
Our onshore and offshore teams are united in their goal, to boost the UK’s energy security and drive down bills for customers. Rough, our North Sea storage facility, currently provides half of the UK’s gas storage – enough to heat 2.4 million homes over winter. But we’re not stopping there. We’ve got our sights set on transforming it into the world's largest hydrogen storage facility and creating a Net Zero connected energy hub in the Humber.
Centrica Energy Storage (CES+) is the owner and operator of Rough, the UK's largest gas storage facility. Rough helps manage seasonal demand and energy security. CES+ has increased the capacity at Rough to 54bcf and continues to explore its role in the future of hydrogen. Today, Rough provides half of the UK's gas storage, being able to store 54 bcf of gas - enough to provide the equivalent volume of gas to heat 2.4 million homes over winter. #LI-CES
We are recruiting for an experienced Engineering Manager to be accountable for leading and developing a high‑performing multidisciplinary technical and engineering team, fostering strong collaboration and continuous improvement. The role holder will ensure regulatory compliance across the CES+ portfolio while safeguarding business continuity and operational delivery. This role oversees the end‑to‑end planning and execution of engineering projects, maintaining high standards of safety, quality, budget control and timely delivery. Additionally, it drives business growth by identifying, developing and implementing technical and engineering service solutions.
This role will be located out of our Hessle office.
Key accountabilities:
Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, environmental regulations, and company policies and industry standards
Oversee regulatory inspections for both onshore and offshore major accident hazard sites while ensuring all supporting technical documentation (specifications, reports, and risk assessments) is accurately developed, maintained, and compliant
Identify and assess business and asset risks (threats and opportunities) and implement effective response plans, ensuring appropriate support and mitigation is provided
Maximises value for Centrica by supporting and optimising the CAPEX and ABEX portfolios, implementing and maintaining best practice project management methodologies and tools, and instigating value adding relationships in the supply chain
Manage budgets, resources, and engineering‑related contracts, ensuring effective contract management and driving continuous improvement across the supply chain
Lead business growth through MOSA services both within the Centrica portfolio and through opportunities beyond it
Create and drive the engineering strategy to ensure that operational vulnerabilities are appropriately controlled or remediated
Track and report on KPI’s (asset reliability, project delivery, safety performance, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance), ensuring clear visibility of performance and driving continuous improvement, innovation and cost reduction
Lead the team to ensure that technical standards and documents are developed, reviewed and applied throughout the business
Mentor and develop others to ensure succession planning and development (including graduates, apprentices and junior engineers)
Represent the engineering function in meetings with clients, partners, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders
Collaborate closely with New Energies and Technical Authority teams to support key development and delivery of energy transition projects, including P&A, decommissioning, brownfield modifications, net‑zero initiatives and hydrogen storage
Collaborate with other departments, including operations, maintenance, and project management, to deliver integrated solutions and achieve organisational objectives
Champion a strong safety‑first culture, maintaining uncompromising standards in health, safety, and risk management, with the ability to clearly communicate key project delivery risks
Build and maintain a professional network, lead and contribute credibly to industry conversations on important issues; seek to create and maintain good relationships internally and externally across various organisational levels; putting other people at ease and quickly building rapport.
The Person:
A Chartered member, at Expert/Advanced level of a recognised engineering institute, the Association of Project Management and/ or Competent to ECITB (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Level A, and capable of managing an Offshore Oil & Gas mega project and/or managing an overall portfolio that includes mega projects
Highly commercially competent, skilled in supply chain management and have a clear understanding of project financing and cost control principles
A self-starter, with the ability to set appropriate strategies based on the lifecycle of the assets
Able to put together appropriate business cases to support projects and improvement initiatives
Possess excellent communication skills and demonstrate their ability to foster wider relationships within Centrica and wider Oil & Gas industry
Demonstrable experience in complex and ambiguous situations – able to adopt a calm and composed mentality that promotes proactivity and deals with disagreements, problems and issues in an open and constructive manner. Skilled public speaker – able to represent the organisation externally
Ability to lead and promote organisational change; make collaborative, high-quality and timely decisions; ability to take informed risks and learn from failures.
Why should you apply?
We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.
https://www.morethanacareer.energy/energystorage
If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.
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What We Do
Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions provider founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We are the UK’s biggest retailer of zero carbon electricity, serving around 10 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe through brands such as British Gas, supported by around 9,000 highly trained engineers and technicians. Centrica’s purpose of helping you live sustainably, simply and affordably drives our strategy and our People and Planet Plan.
