Company:
Boss Professional Services
Location: Thetford
Closing Date: 20/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
BOSS have been retained by a leading climate technology company seeking to hire an Operations Support Engineer for their facility in East Anglia.
Responsibilities for the Operations Support Engineer
- Operating and servicing the plant at their first industrial Pilot Plant, Norfolk - the UK s first ever deployment of carbon negative DAC technology.
- Conducting safe start-up for their DAC modules.
- Maintain and report on sustained operations over months of plant operations.
- Following and demonstrating our at-site Health & Safety culture.
- Assisting with execution of the pilot plant experimental plan in liaison with our Plant Operations Manager.
- Reporting back on unit performances, especially regular failure modes and input ideas for product improvement.
- Troubleshooting issues that arise, with good record keeping for required interventions to be passed back to the product improvement team.
- Get involved in failure analysis, using multiple methodologies to find root causes and propose improvement plans
- Executing maintenance routines.
- Deputising for the Plant Operations Manager in inducting site visitors if needed.
Key Competencies Operations Support Engineer
- Interest in developing skills in an exciting start-up, new technology environment, where you can rapidly grow your experience.
- Experience in operations and maintenance, especially commissioning, start-up and maintenance of a variety of process plants.
- Experience operating and repairing plants in challenging environments.
- Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, Maintenance / OEE.
- Functional understanding of chemical, electrical, mechanical portions of various unit operations such as gas-liquid contacting, water treatment, membrane processes.
- 2+ years experience in the chemical industry
Nice to Have
- Experience running and repairing Research & Development pilot facilities
- Suitable safety accreditation e.g. NEBOSH
- Lean operational certificate, e.g. six sigma or equivalent
- Continuous improvement training / programme experience.
- Experience working with absorption, scrubbing, continuous gas-liquid systems and/or electrodialysis.
- Engineering Level 3 qualification.
- Good understanding of hazard and risk identification
- Basic understanding of electrochemistry and industrial chemistry knowledge.
- Familiarity with servicing of processes handling industrial gases, especially CO2.
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