Control Room Operator
Base salary - £41,795 - £53, 061 plus allowances (Total with allowances £60,391 - £75,712)
& great benefits
Location – Central 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’ve got an exciting opportunity to join our City Energy Solutions (CES) team in our Central Control Room based at our Citigen site in Central London. This Central Control Room monitors c60 sites equating to over 46,000 customers. Here you'll be part of a shift team covering 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, remotely monitoring our district Heating, CHP's and heat pump plant and equipment across the country. As a control room team member, you'll be responsible for monitoring our sites, recording and reporting any issues and mobilising engineers to ensure a reliable supply to our customers and value creation from generation assets.
Key responsibilities include
- Remotely monitoring and operating plant and equipment to key performance parameters including availability, reliability, customer power & heat delivery, plant efficiency, energy consumption and generation.
- Making informed decisions on how to react to planned/unplanned outages and incidents on site.
- Determining which customer supply incidents fulfil the emergency criteria and dispatching engineers appropriately.
- Identifying process improvements and implementing solutions.
- Communicating with remote engineers, on-call managers and Customer Operations to rapidly react to incidents on site, co-ordinating City Energy Solution’s response.
- Ensuring all work reported to the Control Room takes place under our Safety Rules, robustly challenging engineers and contractors on work being undertaken.
- Providing detailed plant performance data using a variety of systems to produce management reports and analysis on gas plant, CHP, and renewable generating assets.