High Temperature Incinerator Operator

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 433627

**Salary**:

- £33,350 - £34,435
- For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DEFRA - COO - Property & Corporate Strategy

**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Shift working

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- New Haw, South East England, KT15 3NB

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
Are you ready to run a powerful incineration systems that keep the environment safe?

Are you hands-on, detail-driven, and ready to tackle plant operations head-on?

Do you thrive in high-compliance environments where precision matters?

If so, this could be the perfect job for you.

The role involves safe and compliant operation of the high temperature incineration and animal cremation facilities, working within a structured management system and under the prescriptive requirements of an Environmental Permit. The role requires a focus on maximising efficient process throughput within the operational parameters of the equipment and prompt response and subsequent reporting of any equipment failures or indications of plant or process issues.

Other activities include:

- Assisting in the development of Key Performance Indicators relating to waste reception, off-site despatch of waste streams, waste feed production, compliant storage and inventory management.
- Manage gate to process waste feed activity.
- Manage documentation systems and data records of all reception & despatch activities.
- Hands on operation of Fork Lift Trucks and other mobile plant.
- Manage material and Environmental Permit compliance (material coming onto site and leaving the facility, air emissions scheduling and residue sampling and testing).
- Collaborate with other campus colleagues to ensure site targets/KPIs are achieved.

**Job description**:
Key Responsibilities:

- Safe and compliant operation of the high temperature incineration and animal cremation facilities, working within a structured management system and under the prescriptive requirements of an Environmental Permit.
- Operate Incineration units on a shift basis, including but not exclusively, waste selection, checking and loading, control room monitoring, plant checks, Air Pollution Control (APC) reagent and APC residue sampling and bag change, bottom ash sampling and bin change.
- Maximising efficient process throughput within the operational parameters of the equipment and prompt response and subsequent reporting of any equipment failures or indications of plant or process issues.
- Assisting in the development of Key Performance Indicators relating to waste reception, off-site despatch of waste streams, waste feed production, compliant storage and inventory management.
- Manage gate to process waste feed activity.
- Manage documentation systems and data records of all reception & despatch activities.
- Hands on operation of Fork Lift Trucks and other mobile plant.
- Manage material and Environmental Permit compliance (material coming onto site and leaving the facility, air emissions scheduling and residue sampling and testing).
- Track daily waste throughput recording identity of materials destroyed against time charged, amending inventory stock. Generate certificates of destruction on the completion of loads.
- Carrying out basic plant maintenance and supporting maintenance colleagues.
- Immediately reporting plant maintenance issues, Environmental Permit issues and waste discrepancies from description.
- Handling and consigning off-site solid wastes.
- Receiving of engineering spares and other equipment, unloading of vehicles delivering raw materials and waste materials, checking and completing associated documentation.
- Monitor raw material inventory levels and notify supervision when re-order levels are reached.
- Download and disseminate process and emissions data for reporting and investigation purposes.
- Contribute to investigations into Environmental permit near misses, issues and non-compliance events.
- Contribute to the writing of COSHH, manual handling, task based risk assessments and operational procedures.
- Responsible for the safe collection of waste containers from around the main site campus and off-loading of wastes arriving from associated facilities.

The shifts are 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. This vacancy is for the 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift. Every four weeks the shift is 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., the five hours are made up on the Saturday morning that week (i.e. every four weeks a Saturday morning five hours is required).

**Person specification**:
Essential skills and experience:

- Experience working in a waste management environment including waste to energy plant exper