Heavy Plant and Machinery Operative

**Description**:
Esken Renewables is part of the Esken Group, we are on the lookout for top talent, to join our innovative and results-oriented team.

Esken Renewables is the UK’s number one supplier of biomass fuel It has long-term contracts in place to supply nearly 2 million tonnes of fuel to Energy Recovery Facilities, generating renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the UK population.

Working as a part of a winning team, we look for people who can spot the opportunity to do things better and have the ability and initiative to put excellent ideas into practice. We take pride in our dedication to delivering our best every day. We bring a can-do attitude - we just get on with it. Our culture is open and honest, agile, and flexible, and we are empowered to look for solutions and bring ideas. We are accountable, we take ownership and focus and commit to our colleagues and customers. We take care, always focus on improving, owning it together and stay connected.

**What is the job?**
Are you an experienced machine operative looking to join one of the UK’s leading renewables companies? Assisting in the processing of waste wood, you’ll be pivotal in continuing Esken Renewables success as the UK’s number one supplier of biomass fuel

We have long-term contracts in place to supply nearly 2 million tonnes of fuel to Energy Recovery Facilities, generating renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the UK population

**Shift Pattern**:2on, 2off, 3on, 2off, 2on, 3off

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring health and safety procedures are followed by reporting of any accidents/near misses.
- Ensuring company procedures, policies and protocells are followed in relation to environmental and quality responsibilities.
- Working towards daily production KPI’s with team members.
- Operation of driving machinery in a safe and efficient manner, following appropriate training and sign off.
- Responsible for ensuring traffic management processes are adhered to, to enable the safe operation of site.
- Competent to train others.
- Responsible for quality of product for customer specification.
- Daily machine checks.
- Loading vehicles.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Desirable**
- Computer literate
- First aid trained
- CITB
- Loading shovel certificate

**Why work for us?**:
We have a wide variety of additional benefits including but not exclusively:

- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Access to wide variety of e-learning development and coaching and support plus annual appraisal and personal development plan
- Access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- An engaging People Forum
- Benefits portal with access to many high street discounts
- Life Assurance
- Employee Referral Scheme up to £150
- Esken Renewables_
- No Agencies please._

**About Esken Renewables**:
Esken Renewables is the UK’s number one supplier of biomass fuel, with long-term contracts to supply 1.7 million tonnes of fuel to biomass plants, generating renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the UK population.

Our core business is to supply biomass fuel, which we process from waste wood and by products, and deliver it to a large number of power plants.

We are proud of what we do and the way we do it. Our approach is driven by our desire to “do things differently”. We provide services to help our customers decarbonise their power generation as we transition to a zero-carbon economy.

Waste wood and by-products are a valuable resource that should be used to generate value for all of us and our communities.

We invest in our best-in-class infrastructure, cutting edge technology and most importantly, our skilled and dedicated people, to ensure that we maximise the financial and environmental benefits at every stage of the process of transforming waste into renewable energy.