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.,

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.

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.

Our Vision is to be the UK's leading innovator of resource recovery and recycling, transforming waste for a climate-positive future.

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