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Knottingley
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Maintenance Team
Vacancy Type
Permanent

About The Role

What is the role?

The role is responsible for the safe, efficient and reliable operation of the EfW facility.  This role involves assisting the Maintenance Manager and Plant Management to organise and manage the site maintenance functions, to ensure high plant availability and performance within approved budgets, liaising with internal operations & maintenance staff and external support staff where appropriate.

What you will be doing?

Please see below a brief overview of the role and the responsibilities

The role manages the life cycle integrity of plant and equipment and is responsible for the facilities reactive, preventative and condition-based maintenance processes, ensuring high operational availability on all elements of the facility which includes a waste-fired high-pressure boiler, flue gas treatment, steam turbine generator, ash handling equipment, auxiliary balance of plant, HV and distributed control (DCS) systems.

  • Delivers and maintains high standards relating to health and safety performance and culture, environmental compliance and site housekeeping.
  • Comply with and actively participate in Company rules, procedures, initiatives, in particular those relating to Health, Safety, environmental management, quality systems and continuous improvement
  • Complies fully with corporate safety rules, site safety rules and associated safe systems of work, PTW, LOTO, RAMS & authorization procedures to ensure that the plant is always maintained within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
  • Assists with the development, maintenance and implementation of operating and emergency instructions and procedures following OEM operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
  • Ensures conformance to relevant statutory requirements Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organisation's policies and applicable laws.
 Essential qualifications
  • HNC/HND level or above in an Engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical, Electrical, Control and Instrumentation or other disciplines related to power generation.
  • IOSH or NEBOSH Managing Safely general certificate or similar safety qualification required as a minimum.
  • In-depth knowledge of steam raising plant and power generation equipment, welding, electrical design, maintenance, and repair issues, and knowledge of instrumentation/ & control systems.

Experience & Competencies

  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience and involvement in outage planning and execution duties
  • Knowledge of budget planning and management principles & processes.
  • Experience with computerised monitoring and reporting systems.
  • IT literate and competent to manage MS Project & complex excel-based spreadsheets.
  • Knowledge and experience of working under CDM regulations will be an advantage.
  • Understanding of continuous improvement philosophy and techniques and environmental compliance standards is desirable.

 

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:

  • Private Medical care
  • Private Dental Care
  • Life Assurance
  • Company pension with a 6% company contribution
  • Discount Platform
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Home & Tech 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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