Mechanical Maintenance Technician

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The Opportunity

We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for a Mechanical Maintenance Technician at our new energy from waste infrastructure, Port Clarence biomass facility in Teesside. As a Mechanical Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for assisting the Management Team in the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of the Waste to Energy facility. This position supports the Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Engineer in delivering all site maintenance functions, including condition‑based monitoring, planned and reliability‑centred maintenance, breakdown response and rectification, lifecycle maintenance, and outage planning and execution, while ensuring the effective upkeep of waste‑fired high‑pressure boilers, flue gas treatment systems, steam turbines and generators, ash handling equipment, auxiliary balance‑of‑plant equipment.

The Role

• Delivers and maintains high standards relating to health and safety performance and culture, environmental compliance and site housekeeping.
• Complies with and actively participates in Company rules, procedures, initiatives, in particular those relating to Health, Safety, environmental management, quality systems and continuous improvement.
• Promotes an environment whereby safety is a priority, ensuring that personnel operate safely at all times and immediately reporting any unsafe acts or conditions as per the incident reporting systems.
• In conjunction with the management team, thoroughly and promptly assists with investigating any accidents or near misses to ensure that any unsafe practices or conditions are addressed and eliminated immediately.
• Knowledge of the site emergency plan, key role within it and supports the site emergency response team.
• Complies fully with corporate safety rules, site safety rules and associated safe systems of work, PTW, RAMS and authorization procedures to ensure that the plant is always maintained within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
• Assists Outage Lead, ensuring all planned and outage maintenance aspects, including planning, execution, monitoring, record keeping and reporting are executed to meet the site’s annual O&M plan objectives.
• Assists with compiling work scopes and in the development of outage plans based upon standard outage work scopes, known defects, availability threats, approved project works and routine maintenance activities.
• Assists with the development, maintenance and implementation of operating and emergency instructions and procedures following OEM operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Assists the operations department with conducting routine tasks and recording readings and findings, such as clearing blockages and spillages, greasing equipment including waste grabs, daily inspections of mobile plant, and other tasks as identified by Plant Management and/or Shift Team Leader.

The Person

• OND/HNC level or above in an Engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical, Electrical or other technical disciplines, ideally related to power generation.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the power generation environment, Energy from Waste, or a similar industry.
• IOSH Managing Safely general certificate or similar safety qualification.

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.