Mechanical Shaftline Engineer

Mechanical Shaftline Engineer (CCGT)
Rocksavage, Runcorn, England, United Kingdom The Role

At Inter Gen
, we’re proud of our culture – one built on teamwork, operational excellence and having health and safety at the heart of what we do. We have an exciting new opportunity for a Mechanical Shaftline Engineer to join our team at Rocksavage Power Station
. This is a new key role created to strengthen our technical capability and support long term performance of our CCGT.

You’ll work closely with our Engineering Manager to focus on the performance of our gas turbines, steam turbine, and critical rotating plant machinery
. You’ll play an instrumental part in shaping and delivering our shaftline strategy, which forms a core part of our wider engineering maintenance strategy.

We’re looking for someone with a strong mechanical engineering background, a rotating machinery expertise and a proactive mindset. If you’re collaborative, solutions-focused, and ready to make a real impact in a high performing environment, we’d love to hear from you!

The Rocksavage team are highly skilled and experienced individuals, all focused on continually improving the way we operate, maintain, and manage the plant. Our Reliability Improvement Program has become one of the key drivers in improving how we work. With an ingrained mindset of ‘doing the right thing every day’ we’re making great strides towards the Rocksavage vision of ‘Target 2050.

Leading the way to sustainable generation.’ Our goal being to become the first hydrogen co‑fired CCGT power station in the country.

Rocksavage is a friendly, sociable and exciting environment and when we’re not hard at work, you can expect regular company‑funded social events and seasonal gatherings, or time spent raising funds for our chosen charities.

A summary of the key responsibilities:

• Support the Engineering Manager in maintaining technical and safety competencies across our systems
• Lead the planning, coordination, and supervision of outages, inspections, and reliability issues in line with the site engineering strategy
• Actively participate in company/site HSE initiatives, including the HSE forum activities and procedure reviews
• Provide supervision of contractors and hands on support as required
• Support the Maintenance & Reliability Manager by utilising the MMS to maintain, service, repair, record history accurately to manage spares for all activities
• Ensure compliance with plant and software modification procedures and company ISI’s and SSI’s
• Contribute to the development and delivery of engineering projects, making sure they meet business plan requirements and ensuring the quality control of all work is in line with Inter Gen’s Quality Management System
• Support the Engineering Manager and Mechanical Engineer during any forced outages to ensuring rapid mobilisation of the necessary resources and equipment
• Ensure WOCs/RAMs produced are accurate and have sign off before delivering to the Safety Controller for Safety Document production
• Work with procurement to ensure value for money when managing designated contracts, purchasing parts or carrying out projects
• Contribute to the delivery of daily activities in line with plant priorities, supporting other areas of the business as needs arise

As our new Mechanical Shaftline Engineer
, you’re an expert in CCGT operations
, someone who understands shaftline strategies and thrives on taking ownership of technical engineering challenges. You’ll have a solutions driven mindset and bring hands‑on experience with gas and steam turbines, rotating machinery and outage coordination that drives long term asset performance.

You’re flexible, enthusiastic, and a true team player – someone who’s happy to be on‑call and provide out of hours support when needed to ensure Rocksavage runs smoothly. You’re proactive in your approach, always looking for ways to make improvements, and you contribute positively to our “Think Differently” culture by challenging the norm and bringing fresh ideas to the table.

If you’re ready to make a real impact in a high performing team and help shape the future of our shaftline strategy,…