Requirements
Applicants must have completed an engineering or control and instrumentation apprenticeship, or hold at least an NVQ Level 3 in a relevant discipline. They must have experience in a 24/7 industrial process environment, including troubleshooting, investigations, repairs, and preventive and predictive maintenance, and be able to maintain a range of process plant systems while meeting safety and legislative requirements.
Job Description
px group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business, providing innovative operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions to partners in high hazard, highly regulated industries. Our focus is improving operating performance of commercial and industrial facilities, with zero harm to people, environment, asset and reputation.
We’re thrilled to have been awarded a 10-year Operations & Maintenance contract by WELP at the world’s first commercial scale plastic recycling plant and are now looking to form our amazing site team.
Based in Teesside, you’ll be key in delivering excellence in safe, efficient operations and maintenance using HydroPRS™ technology to chemically recycle end-of-life plastic. Joining us as we commission and start up, your experience and contributions will see us achieve recycling of over 20,000 tonnes of waste plastic each year, with the scope for expansion as we grow.
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a C&I Technician.
You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide support to the Engineering and Maintenance Manager in driving philosophy, strategy, actions, reporting, results & compliance during all running states.
- Support in ensuring all E&M processes, systems, reporting mechanisms and contracts are in place for identifying & managing engineering risk, meeting the above requirements. Use the framework of disciplined maintenance as best practice. Ensure effective communication, understanding and monitoring by all department employees & personnel required to complete E&M tasks.
- Perform programmed maintenance work, defect rectification and troubleshooting, emergent and project work relating to site instrumentation equipment. Produce risk assessments and method statements that detail the safest method to carry out work. Understand current and key legislation (HASAWA, EAWR, DSEAR, LOLER, PUWER) and work to ensure full compliance.
- Provide appropriate guidance and support for all major site engineering and maintenance events including outage and plant shut down, unplanned and planned events and incidents. Support leadership regarding investigations, processes, audits, procedural actions and communications.
- Support the E&M Department and other assigned personnel, ensuring they meet required standards in a safe, timely manner. Responsibility for supervision, development, welfare and engineering capability & competency in discipline areas & their ability to address technical requirements & standard implementation.
- Champion continuous engineering and maintenance fault diagnosis and improvements working alongside other site, business departments and partners on agreed actions. To include modifications, upgrade projects, audits, surveys and other monitoring processes, initiatives and programmes, accidents, incidents & reports.
Minimum Requirements
- Have completed an apprenticeship in Engineering or Control & Instrumentation or equivalent. OR, hold a minimum of an NVQ L3 qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Have experience working in a 24/7 industrial process completing investigations, troubleshooting, planned repairs, predictive & preventive maintenance, equipment installation, fault finding.
- Be able to maintain all site systems associated with rotating equipment, steam raising systems, material handling equipment (conveyors, shredders, cutters) gas water and air system piping and valves, reactors, distillation systems tanks, tanker loading systems and vehicle fleet management.
- Have experience working correctly & safely to business, legislative and discipline requirements. Applying legislation in responsibilities:Control and Instrument; COMAH, ATEX, PSSR, DSEAR, HASAWA, LOLER
What you will receive from us
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
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About px Group
px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments. Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence. This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities. px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park. We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.
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