Plant Manager

As our Plant Manager, you will take full accountability for the Energy Recovery Facility (ERF), leading a dedicated team to achieve operational excellence. Your key focus will be on ensuring that safety, predictability, reliability, and availability are the foundation of all decisions made. You’ll foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and responsibility within the team, ensuring that a safety-first mindset is always at the forefront.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the ERF site team in promoting a safety-first culture while acting as the senior Viridor representative on site.
• Drive safety compliance by effectively implementing the Health & Safety Plan, Environmental Management Plan, and Quality Manual, ensuring alignment with accreditations such as ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001.
• Ensure plant availability, waste throughput, and energy production targets are consistently met, providing regular reports on actual performance against these goals.
• Build and sustain a culture of performance and continuous improvement, focusing on recruitment, staff development, and succession planning.
• Take full ownership of the site’s Profit & Loss, preparing the annual budget, managing expenditures, analysing variances, and initiating corrective actions to meet financial objectives.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across departments such as Commercial, PPM, Finance, HR, and SHEQS to support company initiatives and ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Ensure operational practices align with industry best standards, working closely with central teams to identify and implement necessary improvements.
• Maintain rigorous legal and regulatory compliance standards, coordinating with central functions to ensure a consistent and integrated approach.

Our ideal Plant Manager will have:

• Extensive people management experience within a large technical department/region at the senior level.
• Strong financial acumen and experience in running a P&L, preparing and managing budgets.
  Practical implementation of a corporate management system.
• Senior management experience within a power generation or relevant process environment.
  Extensive contract management experience.