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Start your sustainable career with Vital Energi at Port Clarence! We’re transforming Energy from Waste, helping power local communities, and protecting the planet for future generations. Join us and be part of the future of energy. The Opportunity: We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for a C&I Technician at our new energy from waste infrastructure, Port Clarence biomass facility in Teesside. We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a talented and experienced C&I Technician to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the condition-based monitoring, planned and reliability-centred maintenance, breakdown response and rectification activities, lifecycle maintenance, and outage planning and execution. The role encompasses maintenance of waste-fired high-pressure boilers, flue gas treatment systems, steam turbines and generators, ash handling equipment, auxiliary balance-of-plant equipment, high-voltage apparatus, and the distributed control (DCS) system. Additionally, the role requires close liaison with the Plant operations team, and other teams across the organisation ensuring high levels of plant availability and performance within approved budgets, while maintaining safety as the foremost priority.
Job Responsibility:
Delivers and maintains high standards relating to health and safety performance and culture, environmental compliance and site housekeeping
Comply with and actively participate in Company rules, procedures, initiatives, in particular those relating to Health, Safety, environmental management, quality systems and continuous improvement
Promotes an environment whereby safety is a priority, ensuring that personnel operate safely at all times and immediately reporting any unsafe acts or conditions as per the incident reporting systems
In conjunction with management team, thoroughly and promptly assist with investigating any accidents or near misses to ensure that any unsafe practices or conditions are addressed and eliminated immediately
Knowledge of the site emergency plan, key role within it and supports the site emergency response team
Complies fully with corporate safety rules, site safety rules and associated safe systems of work, PTW, RAMS and authorisation procedures to ensure that the plant is always maintained within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines
Assists with the development, maintenance and implementation of operating and emergency instructions and procedures following OEM operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
Ensures plant systems are safely isolated, depressurised, drained and cooled as necessary for maintenance personnel to carry out rectification works or maintenance tasks safely
Ensures that the correct PPE/RPE is worn at all times as identified in the Risk Assessment/Method Statement applicable to the activity being performed
Assists the Maintenance Manager in the development of a comprehensive set of plant maintenance procedures
Ensures that a work order, risk assessment and method statements are produced for each activity and that all documents are completed in accordance with the Company CMMS procedures
Using the Company CMMS, plans, supports, and documents both preventative and reactive maintenance tasks
Assists with investigations into plant and process issues including root cause analysis, providing technical expertise, evaluating process variables, maintaining records, writing reports and taking appropriate action to ensure plant operations remain within design and regulatory requirements
Ensures that the plant is maintained in accordance with the prescribed O&M guidelines or approved instructions following analysis of operational history and plant information
Effectively uses Condition Based monitoring (CBM), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Vibration Analysis (VA) methods to ensure the plant is maintained to the highest standards, resulting in high efficiency and reliability, whilst reducing labour task times and minimising spend
Ensures that the C&I Engineer and Shift Team Leader(s) are informed of maintenance activities that impact upon availability and reliability
Assist the C&I Engineer to ensure that plant statutory and regulatory insurance inspections and obligations are undertaken with an appointed Inspector in accordance with company policies and procedures
Assists Outage Lead, ensuring all planned and outage maintenance aspects, including planning, execution, monitoring, record keeping and reporting are executed to meet the site’s annual O&M plan objectives
Assists with compiling work scopes and in the development of outage plans based upon standard outage work scopes, known defects, availability threats, approved project works and routine maintenance activities
Assists Plant Management and operational lead staff with the development of outage maintenance contracts
Requirements:
OND/HNC level or above in an Engineering discipline, preferably C&I, or other technical disciplines, ideally related to power generation
A minimum of 5 years progressively responsible experience in the power generation environment, Energy from Waste, or similar industry
IOSH or NEBOSH Managing Safely general certificate or similar safety qualification required as a minimum
Professional membership with a professional body such as the IET, or similar
In-depth knowledge of steam raising plant and power generation equipment instrumentation & control systems
Familiar with PTW, SSOW, RAMS & AP training
Experience with computerised monitoring and reporting systems (CMMS)
Knowledge and experience of fault finding and repairs of controls and instrumentation on plant equipment
IT literate and competent to manage excel-based spreadsheets and produce written reports in word format
Must have very good knowledge and be able to demonstrated proficiency in process control, maintenance and troubleshooting of Plant DCS/PLC equipment
Good understanding of associated limits and alarms and ability to troubleshoot and correct faults within hardware or software related systems
Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship
Nice to have:
Knowledge and experience of working under CDM regulations is desirable