Head of Maintenance Power Plant Essen-karnap

**Head of Maintenance Power Plant Essen-Karnap M/F/t**:

- **Location(s)**:

- Essen, NW, DE, 45141

**RWE Generation SE**
**To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent**

As Head of Maintenance at our Waste-to-Energy Plant Essen-Karnap, you will own all maintenance activities, ensuring safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally compliant operations. You’ll manage the maintenance team, overseeing daily tasks, system engineering, plant upgrades, and small projects. Your focus will be on continuously optimizing maintenance to maximize plant value and availability within the generation portfolio.

**About the role**
- You will report to the Essen-Karnap Plant Manager and collaborate with colleagues in Operations, Asset Management, and Engineering.
- Lead by example in managing safety, health, wellbeing, and environmental protection, inspiring your team to follow suit.
- Ensure cost-efficient plant operation while prioritizing safety, integrity, and environmental limits.
- Develop and enhance long-term maintenance and outage strategies to meet reliability and performance goals.
- Continuously refine processes to improve the work environment and achieve operational excellence.
- Assess complex technical issues, balancing economic and technical factors to make sound resolutions.Guide, develop, and motivate the maintenance team to grow talent and skills, while effectively managing internal and external stakeholders.

**Job requirements and experience**
- University degree in a relevant technical discipline, or comparable qualification.
- Relevant working experience, preferably in power plant maintenance and project management.
- A Health and Wellbeing and safety focused professional who inspires, manages, and develops teams to reach their full potential.
- Entrepreneurial and strategic thinking with ability to act under conditions of uncertainty.
- Self-motivated to drive the business, increase performance and deliver results paired with ability to manage teams through change processes.
- Business fluent in German and English and willingness to work in an international environment.Experience with Lean Six Sigma practices and with Asset Integrity Management.

RWE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment - we value your passion, your willingness to learn and your desire to thrive. So, if you don’t display all the skills above but think this is the job for you, need flexible working arrangements or adjustments which aren’t outlined already, we would still like to hear from you.

**Your Benefits**
- An exciting, varied, and demanding management role and close interaction with the other departments.
- The opportunity to dynamically contribute to the future direction of the power plant.
- A diverse and modern environment where team members can work flexibly and autonomously.
- Attractive salary plus additional benefits such as an employer-financed company pension and employee discounts.
- Comprehensive company health management programme from our occupational health service and provision of high-quality work and protective clothing.
- Plenty of employee parking spaces with electric charging stations.Exciting work with scope for implementing your own ideas and a supportive team.

Any questions**:Contact HR**:Andre Erkens, +49 173 2825498
We look forward to meeting you Of course, you can find us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Xing, too.

RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability. As one of the world’s leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To achieve this, we are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.

With its highly efficient power plants in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands, the approx. 3,000 employees of RWE Generation produce power from gas, hydro and biomass. RWE Generation is the number two company in the European gas sector - an excellent starting point. After all, gas is becoming more and more important as the bridge between the old energy world and the new age of renewables. In the Netherlands in particular, we are focusing on biomass by converting two hard-coal power plants to this carbon-neutral energy source. We are also represented in many core markets with hydropower plants. Moreover, RWE Generation is the hub for the Group’s hydrogen activities.