Assistant Shift Operator
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

About Us

We are FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible.

We own and operate more than 200 recycling, treatment and disposal facilities and employ nearly 2,400 people across the UK.

We’re currently looking for an Assistant Shift Operator to join our team in Aylesbury on a permanent, full-time basis.

The Benefits

- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ holiday per annum
- Company sick pay
- Pension scheme and life insurance
- Flexible benefits including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service
- Peer to peer recognition scheme
- Training and development opportunities

If you are an operations or maintenance professional, this is an excellent opportunity to put your expertise towards making our successful operation even more safe and efficient.

You will have the chance to work with the latest machinery in a collaborative and encouraging work environment, enabling us to minimise landfill waste and continue to be an industry-leading company.

In return, upon joining our dedicated, friendly team, you will receive ample support and discover plenty of potential for progression and promotion.

Interested? If so, read on.

The Role

As an Assistant Shift Operator, you will ensure the safe and efficient operation of all production activities on-site, including an EfW high-pressure boiler, steam turbine generator and associated auxiliary plant.

Reporting to the Shift Manager, you will conduct first-line fault diagnoses to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the plant during steady state, start up, shutdown and emergencies.

You will undertake operational procedures to ensure that plant is in a fit and correct state for return to service following maintenance, an outage or other prolonged shutdown.

Additionally, you will:

- Ensure day-to-day compliance with all aspects of the environmental permit
- Carry out routine plant inspections and adjustments as required
- Undertake analysis of steam cycle chemistry and implement corrective actions to dosing and blowdown systems
- Respond to first line and breakdown maintenance requirements

About You

To be considered as an Assistant Shift Operator, you will need:

- Process industry experience and/or knowledge of power generation operations and maintenance associated with steam turbines, boilers, the balance of plant, electrical generation and distribution up to 33kV, plant control and instrumentation
- Practical operational and/or maintenance experience and knowledge
- Experience of working in a technically challenging environment
- A good understanding of HSE aspects
- An ONC, City and Guilds and/or NVQ Level 3 qualification in craft skill or process and/or thermal production operations or an agreed combination of technical qualification and experience
- To be computer literate

Please note, this role may require flexibility regarding working patterns.

Other organisations may call this role Shift Operator, Waste Management Shift Operator, Waste Management Site Operator, Plant Technician, EfW Engineer, Steam Turbine Engineer, Shift Maintenance Operator, or Operations Engineer.

Webrecruit and FCC Environment are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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