Plant Manager (d/f/m)
01/09/2025
Hybrid,Full-time, Unlimited
Rotterdam
Plant Manager (d/f/m)
Your responsibilities
Located in the port of Rotterdam, the Maasvlakte energy hub consists of a hard coal and biomass power plant (MPP3) and a natural gas power plant (UCML). The assets serve multiple industrial customers with a capacity of about 1,200 MW. MPP3, with its state-of-the-art design, operates in accordance with most challenging performance parameters. In future, Maasvlakte will play a key role for the energy transition in the Netherlands – for instance, by producing green hydrogen with an installed capacity of up to 500 MW by 2030. As Plant Manager Maasvlakte you are responsible for the safe, compliant, efficient, sustainable, and profitable operations of Uniper’s Maasvlakte Power Station in the Netherlands. You are leading the site organization in playing a strategic role in the Dutch and European energy transition, delivering security of supply to protect European economies and their countries’ wellbeing. You are also shaping the plant’s future towards sustainable energy solutions by feeding and enabling various other functional areas within Uniper to further develop the site. This way, you contribute to positively tackling climate change and thereby helping to deliver Uniper’s carbon neutrality ambition. This role reports to the Director Flexible Energy Steam & Biomass.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the site organization and business of the Maasvlakte Power Plant by defining its vision, strategy, and direction in conjunction with other functional areas in Uniper, and in alignment with the overarching Flexible Energy Fleet Steam & Biomass Fleet objectives
- Responsibility for safe, compliant, reliable and economical operations in accordance with internal and external requirements such as applicable laws and legal obligations, safety regulations, environmental requirements, licenses and permits
- Exemplary occupational safety performance through proactive action and promotion of a continuously improving culture in the areas of occupational health and safety, plant and process safety, physical and cyber security, and environmental protection
- Collaboration with all relevant Uniper functions, in particular the Flexible Energy Steam & Biomass fleet, the Green Power & Gases team, Uniper's trading business, and internal support functions
- Managing local stakeholders at executive level and representing the plant organisation towards authorities, customers and grid operators, and supporting regional communication measures
- Trusting cooperation with the works council and staff representatives
- Ensure and develop the right skills, including leadership competences and team diversity, to best manage current and future risks and opportunities
- Living the Uniper values, communicating corporate goals, implementing corporate guidelines and driving cultural change
- Individual contribution to the goals of the Flexible Energy Steam & Biomass leadership team
Your profile
- Completed university/academic studies in engineering (or comparable experience as a plant manager), additional studies in economics or business administration are advantageous
- Several years (5 or more years) of proven leadership experience in a relevant industry (energy, biochemical or oil & gas industry) combined with extensive experience in shaping and leading organizational change without losing focus on operational excellence
- Comprehensive understanding of power plant operations, engineering and maintenance, ideally including experience with fuel logistics, energy trading and economics, and major outage management
- Comprehensive understanding of relevant Dutch legislation and industry standards, including health, safety and environmental requirements
- Proven track-record in establishing performance management systems and building operationally excellent organizations and teams
- Solid financial and commercial skills
- Ability to deal with unforeseen events and make decisions under pressure and uncertainty
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to manage performance and motivate both individuals and teams
- Planning and organizational skills to effectively prioritize and manage resources with a long-term focus, including strategic management of external service providers
- Strong identification with the Uniper Way and the ability to communicate the underlying value model
- Fluency in English, Dutch and German are beneficial
Job ID:
87905
Application deadline:
31/08/2025
Do you have any questions?
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail and we will get back to you:
career@uniper.energyPlease note: Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications by e-mail for data protection reasons. We would therefore like to ask you to apply exclusively here via our career page. The process is very simple and only takes a few minutes.
As long as our positions are online here on the career page, the application process is not yet complete and the positions are still vacant.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Your Uniper Talent Acquisition Team
Living diversity, fairness and inclusion (DEI) at Uniper
As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. That's why we encourage applications from suitably qualified and suitable people regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We embrace inclusion and support flexible working.
What makes Uniper stand out as an employer
With a mix of digital and analog learning formats and topic-specific communities, we promote your personal and profossional development and lifelong learning.
Further education
Experienced specialists and managers are happy to support you in strengthening your skills and advancing your career development.
Coachings and Mentoring
Performance discussions, 360-degree feedback and employee surveys will help you and the company move forward, strengthen our collaboration and give you room to contribute your ideas.
Open feedback culture
Safety and well-being are our top priorities. That's why we offer you regular free preventive medical checkups as well as a variety of learning impulses on occupational safety, health and well-being, and support programs.
Health care
With our online exercise courses, sponsorship of your participation costs in central sports events and a large sports community, we offer you a healthy working environment.
Sport and Fitness
You can enjoy a wide range of healthy and balanced meals in our canteen. In addition, you can participate in nutrition programs.
Healthy nutrition
We take care of you and offer you a wide range of coverage beyond the legal requirements with our company pension plan, accident insurance, company health insurance and continued salary payments in the event of illness.
Insurance and coverage
We pay capital-forming benefits and offer you a wide range of financial benefits through our corporate benefits program
Financial benefits
We support you in balancing your private and professional life through flexible working time models, job sharing, sabbaticals and extensive offers in the area of child care and nursing.
Work Life Balance
We provide you with free parking spaces.
Free parking spaces
We are Uniper
Uniper is a European energy company with a global reach that makes a decisive contribution to security of supply and energy transformation. We work in very diverse teams and offer our employees as much flexibility as is possible. Equity, mutual appreciation and respect are the core of our corporate culture. At our company you will have the opportunity to shape new technologies, work on solutions for a modern and future-oriented energy supply and actively design change processes.
Application process
Online application
Have you found a suitable job posting? Then you can apply online right here. The application process is very simple and only takes a few minutes. Once we have received your application successfully, you will receive confirmation by e-mail immediately afterwards.
