Assistant Shift Team Leader

What are we aiming for?

Do you have knowledge and experience in operations? A background in maintenance or technical trade? A Military trade or Operational role? Then you might be our new Assistant Shift Team Leader to join our Operations team on our Kent Renewable Energy Plant.

What will you be doing?

Reporting to the Shift Team Leader and you will be responsible forensuring the plant is operated with respect to safety, environmental and operational limits at all times, whilst maximising availability, reliability and efficiency. Full training specific to role will be provided.

Summary of Responsibilities:

• Ensure the plant is operated with respect to safety, environmental and operational limits at all times, whilst maximising availability, reliability and efficiency. This will be applied during all steady state, start up, shutdown and emergency situations, working from either the Control Room and/or plant as required.

• Undertake routine plant inspections, operational routines, adjustments and testing alongside the collecting and recording of plant data.

• Undertake general defect rectification, planned and first line reactive maintenance and fault finding, to achieve availability and reliability targets required.

• Organising and participating in housekeeping and plant cleaning activities on a daily basis

• Monitor plant performance, identifying and taking proactive measures to improve performance shortfalls.

• Adopting and enacting role(s) within the site safety rules, including the isolation of mechanical plant and electrical apparatus and associated HV switching up to 33kV, as per site designated authorisations. Expectation is that through training and experience all Operators will become Senior Authorised Persons(Mech/LV & HV) to deputise as Shift Team Leader.

• Provide operational support for the maintenance and fuel handling teams to maximise plant performance and safety, particularly during fuel delivery and by-product removal periods.

• Provide full ownership for the receipt of all plant operational chemicals onto site.

• Maintaining an accurate and comprehensive shift log and ensuring all defects/works are recorded using the Maintenance management system.

• Adhere to health, safety and environmental management policies and assist in the creation/development of all site operations procedures, so they remainaccurate, suitable and sufficient.

• Provide operational support for all planned outages as required, which may require periods of Day working.

Skills and knowledgerequired:

• Observation and recording skills

• Thorough and clear attention to detail

• Ability to take on board feedback constructively

• Work well under pressure

• Basic knowledge of chemistry including the safe use and disposal of chemicals

• Ability to operate and control equipment

• Ability to use, repair and maintain machines and tools

• Excellent verbal communication skills

• Thinking, reasoning and problem-solvingskills

• Basic IT skills for carrying out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device, fill in a daily log, enter and process data in spreadsheets

Specific experience in an operational or production role on an EFW, CHP, Biomass or Renewable Power Station will be a primary requirement for this role, while gasification experience and / or a trade or engineering background would be considered as an advantage.