Shift Team Leader

As a person, you ensure excellence through your motivation and energy. You manage stakeholders with diplomacy and finesse, ensuring long-term buy-in across the organization and you are able to confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally to foster a ‘one team’ ethos.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, responsible on a shift-rota basis for the safe operation and environmental performance of the plant and security of the site.

• Responsible for ensuring the plant is released for maintenance/routines, in line with the agreed planning schedule and the sites safety rules.
• Provide operational support for all planned outages as required.
• Responsible for maintaining an accurate and comprehensive shift log and ensuring all defects/works are recorded within the sites CMMS.
• Provide overall supervision and development of the shift team, including managing individual and team performance to ensure safe generation and environmental performance of the site.
• Responsible for general defect rectification and fault finding, to achieve availability and reliability targets required.
• Responsible for delivery, using ‘on-shift’ resources, of planned and first line maintenance, operational routines and testing requirements.
• Ensure the plant is operated with respect to safety, environmental and operational limits at all times, whilst maximising availability, reliability and efficiency.
• Accountable for adopting and enacting role(s) within the site safety rules, including the isolation of Mechanical Plant and Electrical Apparatus and associated HV switching up to 33kV.
• Responsible for ensuring detailed incident reports are produced for all health, safety or environmental incidents and any unplanned loss of generation.
• Ensuring compliance with and testing of the site emergency/abnormal condition plans and undertaking associated identified role(s), to manage all site emergencies safely and in line with local procedures.

Do you have a high level of operations/maintenance experience in power generation? Do you establish and maintain high levels of QHSE? Do you have experience in being a leader of a team to drive for excellence? Then you might be our new STL to join our team at our Lisahally Plant in Northern Ireland.

Some occasional and ad-hoc national travel may be required.

• High level of practical thermal plant knowledge
• Able to build and develop strong relationships within multiple internal and external teams
• Degree educated within an engineering discipline
• NEBOSH Certificate
• Experience in permit systems, electrical distribution, protection and HV switching (33kV)
• Strong English skills, both verbal and written

This role is a full-time role contracted for 40 hours per week, working on a 24/7 12-hour shift rota with annual leave built in.

days annual leave for every 5 years of service

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• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to earn an annual bonus (depending on business performance)
• Salary Exchange Pension contributions
• Fixed employer Pension contribution of 6%
• Contractual sick pay
• 34 days annual leave (inclusive of the 8 statutory Bank Holidays) with the addition of 1 extra
• Life Assurance cover
• Health Care Cash Plan