Flexible Energy Fleet Director (f/​m/​d)

01/09/2025

Full-time, Unlimited

Düsseldorf, London, Malmö

Flexible Energy Fleet Director (f/m/d)

Locations: Düsseldorf (NRW), London (England), Malmö (Skåne County)
You are leading the Flexible Energy Gas Turbine fleet function in playing a crucial role in the European Energy transition, supporting in achieving Uniper in achieving its 's strategic goals, and in shaping the fleet's future as a low carbon technology to positively tackle the climate change while ensuring security of supply all the time.

Your responsibilities

  • As the Fleet Director, you are accountable for ensuring the safe, compliant, efficient, sustainable, and profitable operations of Uniper’s Flexible Energy Gas Turbine fleet business on an international scale
  • You are setting the Gas Turbine Fleet Vision, strategy and direction in conjunction with the other functional areas in Uniper and in alignment with the overall company strategy
  • You are personally engaging with all internal functions to achieve the gas fleet strategic goals and with external key stakeholders, securing the competitiveness of the Uniper’s gas fleet in Europe
  • You are driving the continuous performance improvement and delivering the targets of the fleet in all business dimensions, HSSE, operational, financial and maintenance projects
  • As people leader, you are ensuring the right capabilities and competencies exist and are developed within the gas turbine fleet organisation, considering the business context developments and the business strategic direction
  • You are securing and managing the plant portfolio development through plant upgrades, plant life extensions, commissioning and integration of new units or businesses and supporting sale or acquisitions
  • As a key member of Uniper’s Top Leadership Team and of Energy Asset’s Leadership Team you your are called to act in take an impactful role in the European energy transition and in shaping our company culture and strategic direction
  • We are aiming for highest flexibility possible regarding part-time, co-leadership and location among Uniper destinations
    • Delivery of safe, compliant (legal, security, permit, environmental, etc.), reliable, commercial (EBITDA, OPEX, CAPEX) / technical performance and operations of Flexible Energy Gas Turbine assets
    • Ensuring comprehensive and reliable stakeholder management with authorities, political bodies as well as NGOs and local partners of the assets together with CCGR
    • Ensuring to maintain, adjust or renew permits as permit owner together in close alignment with required support functions as where required
    • Ensuring effective implementation of agreed energy asset management strategies & plans
    • Management of short-term optimization, including dispatching of the assets to improve their safety, environmental, commercial and technical performance
    • Manage plant portfolio developments through mothballing, closure, sale, acquisition or establishment of energy hubs with multiple technologies
    • Developing the operational planning for the Flexible Energy Gas Turbine assets in collaboration with Energy Asset Management and Energy Assets Strategy
    • Developing and driving a performance management culture in the operational plants
    • Managing gas turbine technology operational excellence programs
    • Developing the Flexible Energy Gas Turbine Fleet team to be the best it can be

Your profile

  • You have a passion and drive for leadership following the Uniper way and a strong commitment in continuous improvement and business excellence. You are a role model in driving highest safety performance for people, environment and process and plant safety guided by our Beyond Zero philosophy
  • You are able to develop trustful relationships in a multicultural, diverse and inclusive working environment
  • You have a thorough understanding of European energy market trends, energy assets practices and standards, and possess relevant commercial technical and asset management and financial experience. You have a great degree of curiosity and you are constantly looking for opportunities to enhance the value of the business
  • You have relevant energy assets experience in operating and maintaining energy assets, strategic and technic-economic knowledge in leading international businesses and in implementing successfully change programs or strategies across multiple sites and countries
  • You are able to create and communicate a bold direction that inspires excellent results and performance. You are focus on the key inputs for your business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. You think differently always striving to accomplish more with less
  • The position requires regular travel across Europe. Since it is an executive position, having passed Uniper Assessment Center is mandatory

Job ID:

88261

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Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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Düsseldorf

We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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