BOAS / Boiler House Manager in Poole

BOAS / Boiler House Manager

Application Deadline: 28 July 2026

Department: Repairs and Maintenance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Poole, Dorset - Nuffield Industrial Estate

Compensation: £37,000 - £45,000 / year

The manager will be responsible for operating industrial steam boilers at our Witney Road and Cowley Road sites. The role ensures efficient, safe operation, compliance with safety regulations, and maintenance of boiler systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the steam plant is operating efficiently and effectively. Analyse energy & steam flow readings to maintain the efficiency of the system.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant law and legislation - PSSR, PUWER, HSE & CEA
• Risk assessment and any risk management actions are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensuring there are also trained members of staff to cover all shifts for steam using departments to be able to operate.
• Ensuring that the boiler plant is maintained correctly, liaise with Repairs & Maintenance &/or contractors.
• Overseeing of boiler operators and their relevant training
• Oversight on sub-contractors carrying out works on boiler system
• Overseeing the Written Scheme of Examination and liaising with our Inspectors to ensure that the WSE is kept up to date.
• Defining and maintaining competencies.
• Maintaining a safe operating environment by adhering to safety policies and procedures.
• Monitoring of high integrity level controls, gauges, meters, and control panels to ensure that the boiler is operating efficiently, effectively and safely.
• Recording and supervising daily operational logs and reporting any anomalies in the boiler function to the Maintenance team and Management at Units 5 & 7 Witney road.
• Responding promptly to emergencies or issues involving the boiler operation.
• Coordinating with the Maintenance team and Production management at Unit 5 & 7 to ensure smooth operations across the boiler plant.
• Determining if the risks from the boiler are at acceptable levels or if any additional measures are required.
• Duties involved will include working at heights.
• To oversee and maintain boiler system training for all operators and to keep a structured and on-going process which is updated to keep pace with developing technology, equipment and legislation.

Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

• Experience and proven knowledge of shell type steam boilers
• Experience of managing a team of people
• Proactive and highly motivated
• An ability to learn and develop new skills
• Excellent record keeping
• Great communication - written and verbal
• Initiative to carry out daily tasks and manage own workload
• Meticulous, Competent and Responsible
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Good computer knowledge.
• Must be 18 years of age or over

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 6 months of full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver must qualify for SMP)*
• Enhanced paternity leave*
• Bonus scheme
• Day off for weekday birthdays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted rail and bus season tickets
• Employee assistance programme
• We actively welcome conversations about what working flexibly could mean and look like for you.
• We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
• Wellbeing & mindfulness sessions
• Access to employee-led Community Networks, including Disability and Chronic Illness, Family Support, Global Majority (Race and Ethnicity), LGBTQIA+, Menopause and Neurodiversity communities.
• Tailored gender affirming care*

Qualifying period/hours required*

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