Fuel Technician in Middlesbrough

Start your sustainable career with Vital Energi at Port Clarence! We are transforming Energy from Waste, helping power local communities, and protecting the planet for future generations. Join us and be part of the future of energy.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Fuel Reception Technician at our new energy from waste infrastructure, Port Clarence biomass facility in Teesside. The Fuel Reception Technician will support the shift team in ensuring safe, compliant, and environmentally responsible waste reception and processing, residues management and handling, while also undertaking mobile plant and weighbridge operations as required. In addition, they will assist the Operations and Maintenance teams with day-to-day tasks to enable the facility to operate as an integrated whole, achieving maximum levels of safety, compliance, availability, and efficiency.

Vital Energi - Port Clarence - Strategic asset ownership journey

Port Clarence represents the next phase of Vital Energi's evolution from energy solutions provider to significant asset owner, processing 320,000 tonnes of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and producing over 30Mwe. This marks a substantial step-change in scale and ambition. Vital Energi will further invest in the optimisation of the Drakelow EfW plant to improve its productivity and returns, ensuring it continues to deliver robust operational and financial performance as part of the company’s growing portfolio. The energy generated by both facilities will be exported back to the national grid.

The Role

• Assists in ensuring that all waste and consumables deliveries, residues storage, management and removal operations, are conducted within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
• Assists with plant operations to enable the facility to operate within its Environmental Permit, Planning Conditions and complies with its duty of care responsibilities, whilst fulfilling its contractual and company targets for safety, waste inputs, vehicle turn-around times and residue outputs.
• In conjunction with the traffic management system, assists in directing the refuse trucks as to where to unload, conducting periodic inspections, and screening out unacceptable waste from the waste stream.
• Maintain the tipping floor area, ensuring any obstacles are removed or waste that is unacceptable is segregated for subsequent disposal, and that traffic flows smoothly.
• Maintain good housekeeping and cleanliness.
• Operation of the waste cranes to manage inputs and maintain an effective bunker profile.
• Directing vehicle deliveries of bulk chemical supplies and LPG and ensures that approved procedures are followed to ensure safe delivery.
• Assisting in the operation of APCr conveying and loading equipment.
• Safely and effectively operating heavy equipment during daily operations.
• Performing routine maintenance checks on mobile equipment and reports malfunctions.
• Operating mobile plant including, but not limited to Front End Loader, and Forklift Trucks and other mobile equipment.
• Operating the Weighbridge as required.
• Ensures a high level of health and safety is always maintained by reporting any issues or incorrect procedures to the Shift Team Leader or Management team.
• Close liaison with other operational and maintenance colleagues responsible for other elements of the site, so the facility can function as an integrated whole, and run at maximum levels of safety, availability and efficiency.
• Assists with the inspection of waste deliveries and the collection of waste samples for duty of care, environmental, regulatory and safety compliance requirements.
• Assists with the review and creation of all waste and residue procedures and risk assessments for all activities.
• Ensures that any unsafe acts or conditions are reported immediately.
• Enforces the site Environmental Permit by rejecting any load that falls outside the site's permitted waste categories.
• Ensures that all procedures and risk assessments are always adhered to.
• Ensures that the site rules are adhered to and clearly communicated to everyone entering or leaving the facility.
• Ensures that the correct PPE/RPE is always worn as identified in the Risk Assessment/Method Statement applicable to the activity being performed.
• Assists the operations and maintenance department with conducting routine tasks and recording readings and findings, such as clearing blockages and spillages, inspecting and greasing waste grabs, daily inspections of mobile plant, etc. and other tasks as identified by Plant Management and/or Line Manager.
• Ensures that all plant defects are reported to the Shift Team Leader in a timely manner so they can be raised and actioned via the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

The Person

• Educated to GCSE level (Maths and English), NVQ equivalent, or more than 5 years of relevant industry experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety in the workplace.
• Understanding of waste regulations, duty of care, transfer notes etc.
• Mobile plant experience and licences for Front Loading Shovel, Forklift Truck, mechanical access equipment.
• IT literate and competent to operate computer software systems.
• Current, valid UK driving licence.
• Recognised Safety training IOSH.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative where required.
• Enthusiastic and competent problem solver.
• Good communication and organisational skills.

Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time-limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.