Shift Team Leader

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

Are you someone who lives and breathes high performance, leads with ambition, and would like to be part of an organisation that looks after tomorrow?  Viridor has a redefined purpose, a bold new Vision, and an ambitious, market-leading strategy. We are investing in the future, and we need a talented team with exceptional people, who believe in each other, to help us achieve this.

Join us, as we rise to the challenge and build a world where nothing goes to waste

Viridor is at the forefront of waste management and resource recovery in the UK, operating the largest network of Energy Recovery Facilities (ERFs). We play a crucial role in supporting the UK's climate goals by diverting waste from landfills and transforming it into valuable energy resources. 

We have an opportunity in Avonmouth for a Shift Team Leader to join our team working 40 hours per week, on a rotating shift pattern of days and nights.

     The salary for this role will be £60,900.00 per year, plus shift allowance and participation in an annual bonus scheme, in addition to our great range of benefits.

     The closing date for applications is 15th December 2024. We encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early if we receive a high number of applications.

As our Shift Team Leader, you’ll lead the Shift Team and supervise the day to day running of the plant, whilst striving for continual improvement, reducing health, safety and environmental impacts, and maximising process throughput and export. As a Senior Authorised Person (SAP) complying with the Safe System of Work, you’ll also supervise contractors carrying out activities onsite.

Working with the management and engineering teams, you’ll plan, implement and monitor systems and processes through good practice to maximise the process and ensure health, safety & environmental compliance.    

As well as completing routine drills of the site’s emergency, safety & environmental procedures, you will record all information pertaining to this as required.  As an impartial and logical professional, it will be your responsibility to initiate investigations of accidents or incidents with transparency and objectivity to prevent reoccurrence.   

You will also build and maintain relationships with colleagues to ensure effective communication across the site and ensure all visitors and contractors to site are inducted into the site safety and emergency procedures.   

What are we looking for?

• Supervisory or management experience.  
• An engineering qualification, preferably ONC/HNC or equivalent.  
• Safety qualification, preferably IOSH or NEBOSH.   
• A management or leadership qualification (desirable but not essential).  
• Power industry, navy or process knowledge of systems such as HP steam, boilers, electrical generation and emissions.   

• An ability to carry out team briefings and communicate at a strong and efficient level.  
• Experience in Safe Systems of Work/safety documentation and systems.  

To view the profile, which outlines the person specification and list of responsibilities in full, please click here.  

How to apply

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We are a Great Place to Work

There has never been a more exciting time to join Viridor. Following the acquisition of the business by the global private equity firm, KKR, the core business has been reshaped to focus on our leading UK Energy from Waste portfolio and the development of our growing Polymers Recycling business.

What we can offer you

We invest in our people to reward them for their hard work, and we have a host of company benefits available to you when you join - take a look at our Rewards and Benefits

As an equal opportunities' employer, Viridor is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.