Process Engineer

1 month ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Renewi Services UK Ltd Full time
South Kirkby Waste Treatment Facility - Process Engineer
Do you want to use your skills and knowledge within a leading waste-to-product company that evolves around the circular economy?
We, at Renewi, are a strong team with a powerful ethos. Our purpose - to protect the world by giving new life to used materials. People join us because they want to make a difference.
You'll quickly discover our values are part of our DNA and run through all we do at Renewi. We're made up of individuals from all walks of life - it's what makes our diverse team so fantastic. We are committed to hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. If you share our values and our purpose, continue reading to find out more about our Process Engineer position at South Kirkby.
Renewi provides waste management services to Wakefield Council under a 25-year waste PFI contract. As part of this we operate a 240,000 tonne per annum capacity Waste Treatment facility at the South Kirkby site comprising of a Residual Waste Treatment Facility (RWTF), Anaerobic Digestion plant (AD), Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) and In-Vessel Composting Facility (IVC).
Reporting to the Site Operations Manager, you'll be part of a team and have responsibility for the day-to-day control of the facility. You will ensure that critical metrics are monitored, reviewed and acted upon, and that performance targets are met. You will also have a key role in ensuring the safety, compliance, and commercial viability of the plant. You will be expected to support the Operations and other site teams to drive a continued positive change in operational culture and performance and to deliver systematic improvements to the sustainability, reliability, performance, and operational effectiveness of the facility.
You'll have a passion for waste, recycling and sustainability and thrive in an operational environment.
Some of your key responsibilities:
• Drive and support a culture of safety excellence
• Coordinating and collaborating with operational colleagues to oversee the day to day technical and process requirements of the facility
• Setting control limits and charts for all key performance parameters and ensuring these are met.
• Ensuring the quality of plant outputs are achieved
• Providing solutions to technical variances including use of root cause analysis and fault finding.
• Daily analysis of plant data to determine optimal operational set up
• Developing, owning and managing a 'process management system' for the facility to become the 'one way of working'
• Developing training and induction material for new and existing colleagues to ensure that high operational standards are met
• Train, coach and develop site staff in all aspects of plant performance
• Regular reporting of plant performance
• Identification and implementation of process improvement opportunities
• Management and assessment of all process changes made to the plant
• Benchmarking wider industries to adopt and implement best practices
• Liaising with regulators to ensure compliance of the facility is achieved
Check out what we believe will help you be successful in this role:
• The health and safety of yourself and your colleagues is a core valu
• You have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead, guide and mentor the onsite team
• You are great communicator with the ability to clearly express technical and engineering matters in a way that enables good decision making
• You enjoy being around people and are comfortable communicating with colleagues at all levels within an organisation
• You have a proactive approach to problem solving
• You are a well organised and logical thinker.
• You are numerate and appreciate the importance of accurate operational data collection and analysis
• You are honest, reliable, and always behave with integrity
• You are degree educated in chemical or process engineering and working towards chartered status
• You have 3-5 years of experience in a front-line operational role as a process or chemical engineer
• You have knowledge of Lean methodologies and experience with their application within a process/operational plant environment
What do we offer you?
• A competitive salary plus car allowance and annual bonus scheme.
• Enhanced employer contribution pension plan.
• 33 days annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays.
• Access to our Sharesave scheme - your chance to own shares in the business you work so hard for.
• Numerous opportunities for career development - we have a history of promoting from within.
• Access to the Renewi wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1.
• Varying job in an international, dynamic organisation in which you can continue to develop yourself and with freedom of strategic leadership.
Will you become our Process Engineer at South Kirkby?
Want to know more? Please contact our Talent Acquisition team today
Perhaps this job is not for you, but you know someone who would be interested? Please feel free to share this vacancy.
Who are we?
At Renewi we exclusively focus on extracting value from waste.
Our vision is to be the leading waste-to-product company in Europe's most advanced circular economies - contributing to a sustainable society for all key stakeholders: customers, suppliers, local communities, employees, regulators, Governments, investors and lenders.
What do we mean by waste-to-product? At Renewi, we exclusively focus on extracting value from waste rather than on its disposal through mass burn incineration or landfill.
Of the 14 million tonnes of waste we handle a year, 89% is either recycled or used for energy recovery
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