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About The Role

What’s the role all about?
This is more than just keeping things running – it’s about engineering leadership at Parc Adfer, one of Wales’ most advanced Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities, serving communities across North Wales and beyond.

As a Plant Engineer at Parc Adfer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the site operates safely, efficiently, and reliably every day. Working closely with the site leadership and technical teams, you’ll lead and support a wide range of engineering activities – from performance optimisation and outage delivery to maintenance planning, compliance, and long-term asset integrity.

If you're motivated by problem-solving, collaboration, and making a tangible difference, this role gives you real scope to have an impact at the heart of a critical energy and waste infrastructure site.

What you’ll be doing
You’ll be part of the site’s core engineering team, working across mechanical, electrical and control systems to ensure our assets perform at their best and continue to evolve with the needs of the business.

You’ll support the safe and effective operation of:

  • Waste-fired high-pressure boilers

  • Flue gas treatment systems

  • Steam turbine generator

  • Ash handling systems

  • High-voltage (HV) and distributed control systems (DCS)

  • The wider balance of plant

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll:

  • Provide technical support to operations and maintenance teams on plant issues and investigations

  • Lead or support root cause analysis and resolution of equipment faults or performance concerns

  • Work with internal teams and contractors to deliver maintenance and engineering strategies

  • Lead outage planning and support execution, ensuring work is delivered safely and efficiently

  • Champion safety, environmental and regulatory compliance across all engineering activities

  • Maintain and develop documentation, procedures and digital systems to support safe and reliable operation

  • Identify and drive improvements in asset performance, safety, and cost-efficiency

What you’ll bring
Essential qualifications and experience:

  • HNC/HND or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, or Control & Instrumentation Engineering

  • IOSH or NEBOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent)

  • Technical knowledge of steam raising plant, turbine systems, and process engineering

  • At least 2 years’ experience in a power generation, heavy industry, or process-led environment

  • Familiarity with CMMS platforms and tools like Excel and MS Project

  • Understanding of CDM regulations and safe systems of work in high-risk settings

What sets you apart:

  • A proactive, hands-on approach to solving complex problems

  • The ability to influence and lead others to achieve shared goals

  • Strong organisational and communication skills

  • A drive for continuous improvement and operational excellence

About Us

Who are enfinium?

enfinium is one of the largest energy-from-waste businesses in the UK and an industry leader in the conversion of non-recyclable residential and business waste into heat and partially renewable power. enfinium currently has a platform of six (two in construction) strategically located facilities across the UK. Today, enfinium has an annual waste processing capacity of over 2.3 million tonnes, and a total combined electric generating capacity of 265MW (gross) - enough energy to power more than 500,000 UK homes. enfinium is owned by infrastructure investment funds managed by Igneo Infrastructure Partners

At enfinium we’re guided by five principles, we use these to make sure we’re not only doing a great job, but we’re doing it in the right and safe way: 

One Team - Pride Matters - Safety on Purpose - Make a positive impact - Take Ownership

As a Company, we really value our employees and as such, offer a generous employee benefits package which includes the following:

  • Vitality Private Medical care
  • Private Dental Care
  • Life Assurance
  • Company pension with a 6% company contribution
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Uniform provided
  • Continuous learning and development through our e-learning portal and access to role-based qualifications

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