Shift Team Leader

Green Recruitment Solutions are seeking to appoint a professional Shift Team Leader, for one of the UKs leading Energy from Waste companies. This is a great opportunity to join a fantastic team at flag-ship Energy from Waste facility. Our Client completely embraces modern innovation and as a result of their approach, they are the first in the country to divert all waste away from landfill!

Responsibilities:

• Supervising the shift teams ensuring the efficient operation and maintenance of the plant
• Prioritise workloads to ensure maximum process efficiency
• Maximise waste input and energy output
• Ensure that all activities within the plant are carried out in a safe manner in line with policies ensuring that all Health, Safety and Environmental statutory requirements are met
• Manage the daily meetings to ensure priorities have been established for EHS and plant defects
• Manage the Safe System of Work as a Senior Authorised Person (SAP) including HV
• Carry out risk assessments to ensure activities are carried out in a safe manner
• Being operational within the Maintenance Department when essential and implementing and carrying out activities ensuring plant accessibility is maximised
• Working with the management team striving for continual improvement in minimising Health, safety and environmental impacts at the plant
• Ensure all visitors and contractors to site are inducted in the site safety and emergency procedures
• Routine testing of site emergency safety and environmental procedures and recording information as required
• Completion of any incident reporting and carrying out follow-up investigations as necessary
• Responsible for ensuring the plant is always being operated within the Environmental permit
• Respond and act on any internal or external issues, concerns or complaints and respond in a prompt, courteous and professional manner in accordance with procedures
• Participate in continual personal development within the organisation to achieve improved performance
• Promote flexible team working by creating an environment and the resources which will enable the team to identify issues and create innovative solutions to problems and opportunities
• Carry out regular team meetings (or briefings) ensuring good communications are always achieved

The Ideal Person:

• Possess Engineering qualifications preferably ONC / HNC (or equivalent)
• Experience as Senior Authorised Person (SAP) with Mechanical, HV & LV electrical safety
• Possess safety qualification preferable IOSH or NEBOSH
• Experience in safe systems of work, issuing ‘Permits to Work’ and ‘Safety Documents’
• Have a good understand of environmental health & safety within a process or power industry
• A good understanding of environmental IPPC authorisation
• Be computer literate
• Experience with Computerised Maintenance Management Systems
• Excellent communicational skills are required at all levels; both verbally and written
• An ability to carry out team briefings, participate in detailed shift handovers and write concise reports
• Experience with managing and administering work activities including shift personnel and contractors
• Must be able to demonstrate good organisational skills
• Have a willingness to operate flexibly over a wide range of work areas
• Has the ability to think logically and solve problems effectively and efficiently