Energy From Waste

1 week ago

Knaresborough, United Kingdom Thalia Waste Management Full time

Main Purpose of Role
As a Day Operator at our Energy from Waste facility, you will support the day-to-day operations of the plant through a variety of essential operational duties. This includes managing deliveries, monitoring key consumables, maintaining housekeeping standards, and providing operational support across the plant. The role includes both routine and developmental responsibilities, with training provided to cover emergency plant operations and mobile plant use.
Key Responsibilities
- Tanker Offloading and Deliveries: Safely receive and coordinate bulk chemical and waste deliveries.
- Consumables Management: Monitor and replenish operational consumables (e.g. lime, ammonia, urea).
- Housekeeping: Maintain high cleanliness standards across the plant, ensuring safety and operational efficiency.
- Daily Shift Checks: Perform and record site checks as part of operational routines.
- EfW Crane Cover: Provide break cover for overhead grab crane operations (training provided).
- EfW Thermal Plant Cover: Provide emergency cover for thermal plant operation during absences or high demand (training and shadowing opportunities provided).
- Yellow Plant Operations: Operate mobile plant (e.g. telehandler, forklift, front-loader) as needed - training and certification provided.

Person Specification
Skills and Experience
- Experience in an industrial, energy, or waste environment preferred
- Willingness to work flexibly and adapt to changing operational needs
- Good attention to detail and commitment to safe working practices
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a small team

Desirable
- Forklift/telehandler ticket (training will be provided if not held)
- Basic mechanical or process plant knowledge

**Qualifications**:

- Full UK Driving Licence required
- Mobile plant qualifications desirable but not essential

Development Opportunities
This role offers excellent opportunities for progression into more advanced plant operations. Training will be provided in:

- Thermal Plant operations
- Overhead crane use
- Permit-to-work procedures and safe systems of work
- Mobile plant operations (yellow plant)

Our Business
At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.
We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.
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