South Kirkby Waste Treatment Facility - Process Engineer
40 hours per week - Mon-Fri
£55,000 per annum
Our site provides waste management services to Wakefield Council under a 25-year waste PFI contract. As part of this, we operate a 240,000 tonne per annum capacity Waste Treatment facility at the South Kirkby site comprising of a Residual Waste Treatment Facility (RWTF), Anaerobic Digestion plant (AD), Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), and In-Vessel Composting Facility (IVC).
Reporting to the Site Operations Manager, you’ll be part of a team and have responsibility for the day-to-day control of the facility. You will ensure that critical metrics are monitored, reviewed, and acted upon, and that performance targets are met. You will also have a key role in ensuring the safety, compliance, and commercial viability of the plant. You will be expected to support the Operations and other site teams to drive a continued positive change in operational culture and performance and to deliver systematic improvements to the sustainability, reliability, performance, and operational effectiveness of the facility. You’ll have a passion for waste, recycling, and sustainability and thrive in an operational environment.
Some of your key responsibilities:
1. Drive and support a culture of safety excellence
2. Coordinating and collaborating with operational colleagues to oversee the day-to-day technical and process requirements of the facility
3. Setting control limits and charts for all key performance parameters and ensuring these are met
4. Ensuring the quality of plant outputs are achieved
5. Providing solutions to technical variances including use of root cause analysis and fault finding
6. Daily analysis of plant data to determine optimal operational setup
7. Developing, owning, and managing a ‘process management system’ for the facility to become the ‘one way of working’
8. Developing training and induction material for new and existing colleagues to ensure that high operational standards are met
9. Train, coach, and develop site staff in all aspects of plant performance
10. Regular reporting of plant performance
11. Identification and implementation of process improvement opportunities
12. Management and assessment of all process changes made to the plant
13. Benchmarking wider industries to adopt and implement best practices
14. Liaising with regulators to ensure compliance of the facility is achieved
Requirements
Essential criteria for this role:
1. The health and safety of yourself and your colleagues is a core value
2. You have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead, guide, and mentor the onsite team
3. You are a great communicator with the ability to clearly express technical and engineering matters in a way that enables good decision making
4. You enjoy being around people and are comfortable communicating with colleagues at all levels within an organisation
5. You have a proactive approach to problem solving
6. You are a well-organised and logical thinker
7. You are numerate and appreciate the importance of accurate operational data collection and analysis
8. You are honest, reliable, and always behave with integrity
9. You are degree educated in chemical or process engineering and working towards chartered status
10. You have 3-5 years of experience in a front-line operational role as a process or chemical engineer
11. You have knowledge of Lean methodologies and experience with their application within a process/operational plant environment
Benefits
What do we offer you?
1. A competitive salary plus car allowance and annual bonus scheme
2. Enhanced employer contribution pension plan
3. 33 days annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays
4. Numerous opportunities for career development – we have a history of promoting from within
5. Access to our wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1
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