Siemens Energy

A Snapshot of Your Day

As an O&M Field Engineer at Siemens Energy, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of our Millbrook OCGT power plant in Bedford. Your day will combine hands-on maintenance, technical troubleshooting, outage support, and close coordination with our remote operations and project teams.

Working within a fast-paced operational environment, you’ll support critical power generation assets that help provide energy security across the UK. You’ll collaborate with specialist contractors, customers, and engineering teams while helping drive plant reliability, operational performance, and continuous improvement. This role also offers opportunities to support additional OCGT sites across the fleet, broadening your technical exposure and experience.

How You’ll Make an Impact

•  Operate and maintain plant equipment in line with OEM guidance, engineering best practice, and UK safety and environmental regulations.
• Lead and support site maintenance, engineering activities, contractor management, and outage execution to ensure safe and reliable plant performance.
• Diagnose faults, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement corrective actions to maximise equipment reliability and operational availability.
• Support planned and reactive maintenance activities, ensuring efficient return-to-service of plant and equipment.
• Utilise computerized Plant Management Systems for maintenance execution, reporting, material requests, and operational tracking.
• Support Siemens Energy’s Asset Care Programme, including asset criticality assessments, condition-based maintenance, and data engineering activities.
• Ensure compliance with EQS requirements, ISO management systems, and all plant safety procedures.
• Act as an Authorised or Senior Authorised Person when required, maintaining the highest standards of safety and operational compliance
•  Work closely with customers, contractors, and project teams to support outage planning, engineering improvements, and operational excellence initiatives.

What You Bring

• Minimum of 5 years’ operational or maintenance experience within power generation, heavy industry, or a similar process environment.
• Strong technical understanding of Electrical, Controls & Instrumentation (E,C&I) systems and plant maintenance practices.
• Experience supporting rotating equipment, plant operations, fault finding, and troubleshooting activities.
• Strong awareness of Health & Safety practices and safe systems of work within operational environments.
• Experience supervising contractors and coordinating engineering activities on site.
• Self-motivated with strong organisational and prioritisation skills in a dynamic operational environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across operational and engineering teams.
• Preferably educated to HNC level or equivalent in an engineering discipline
•  IOSH or equivalent Health & Safety qualification would be advantageous.

About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. We bring together gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and digital service solutions under one roof. Through modernization, digitalization, and innovative service offerings, we support customers across the globe in delivering reliable and sustainable energy.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees across more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.

Our technologies help drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:

https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

•  26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served
• Access to a flexible benefits portal, including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme
• Opportunities for career development and continuous learning
• The opportunity to work on critical UK power generation infrastructure within a highly skilled engineering environment
• Supportive and collaborative team culture focused on safety, reliability, and technical excellence