Operations Technician

ABOUT US

At Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), we’re on a mission to make BIG steps towards a carbon negative and sustainable future, in the management of waste.

We are building one of the UK’s largest portfolios of biomass and waste to energy facilities, which will have the potential to divert over 1.5 million tonnes of waste each year from landfill and deliver vital low carbon electricity capacity to the national grid, helping to meet demand from industry and households across the UK.

Since our journey began in 2015, we have now established a strong platform of highly competent experts in the construction, ownership and operation of this asset class, complete with an in-house Operations & Maintenance business.

WHAT WE OFFER

We are proud to play a role in the ongoing efforts to move toward a more sustainable future in energy generation and here you can work with the satisfaction of knowing that everything you do is focused on contributing toward that objective.

Our employee benefits package includes;

• Private Healthcare
• Company Pension
• Electric Vehicle Scheme

There are also significant opportunities for career advancement and training (both internal and external) in what is a fast growing sector.

THE ROLE

We're seeking enthusiastic and skilled people to join our Operations team in Barry. The roles are responsible for the operation, troubleshooting, rectification of faults, problem solving and continuous improvement of equipment and processes to ensure production demands are met.

The role plays a key part in identifying and eliminating loss and waste as well as driving continuous improvement initiatives to improve availability and reliability.

The positions report directly to a Shift Team Leader.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Operating the plant to ensure compliance with all relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation
• Carrying out plant-related routine duties to ensure plant performance, availability and reliability is maintained to a high level
• Performs fault diagnosis and reactive maintenance as well as proactive monitoring of the process performance trends to spot errors or anomalies and address them before they affect production
• Interrogates and fault finds process and equipment issues by interrogation of Plant DCS and Process Control Systems, and liaises with engineering team for in depth troubleshooting
• Using a Distributed Control System (DCS) system you will be required to start, stop and monitor turbines, boilers, pumps, water treatment plant and more

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCES

We are open to considering applicants from a range of different industry backgrounds, it's not essential to have prior experience in the Biomass field.

We would however expect suitable applicants to have prior experiences of at least some of the following;

• Recognised Engineering or Operational qualification, either apprenticeship, C&G, NVQ3, ONC or HNC
• Working knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental legal requirements
• Familiarity with Permit-to-Work systems
• Ability to work a full shift system with flexibility to provide support as needed to ensure the safe operation of the Plant

Please note that we do not welcome any agency / 3rd party involvement or approaches on this vacancy until a time we deem to be suitable and at which point we will work with our preferred suppliers only.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Barry, CF63 4JE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: BIG028