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Site Operator (Part-Time) | Coryton, Essex
Coryton, Essex (SS17)
16 Hours Per Week | Permanent
About the Company
Leading independent energy specialist with over 25 years' experience delivering innovative power generation and environmental energy solutions. The business designs, builds, owns, and operates a diverse portfolio of distributed energy assets across the UK, helping customers improve energy efficiency while reducing emissions.
Their technologies include:
- Combined Heat & Power (CHP)
- Landfill Gas Generation
- Gas Peaker Plants
- Solar PV
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Embedded & Behind-the-Meter Generation
- Gas Processing Plant
Salary & Benefits
- Salary: £12,480 per annum (equivalent to £31,200 FTE)
- Additional benefits include:
- Annual company performance bonus
- Pension (5.5% employer / 3.5% employee)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (pro rata)
- Birthday leave
- Buy/sell up to 5 additional holiday days
- Additional annual leave after 3 years' service
- Death in service (4x salary)
- Subsidised private healthcare & health cash plan
- Company sick pay
- Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Charity work day
- Employee discounts scheme
- Refer-a-friend programme
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Role Purpose
As a Site Operator, you'll help ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a small-scale industrial power generation facility supplying electricity to the National Grid.
Working alongside the Operations team, you'll respond to equipment faults, carry out routine inspections, perform basic maintenance, and help maximise plant availability across generation assets including gas engines, solar, and associated plant equipment.
This role would suit someone with a mechanical or electrical background looking for a hands-on position within the growing energy generation sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and support the operation of power generation equipment
- Respond to plant alarms, trips, and equipment faults
- Carry out basic mechanical and electrical maintenance
- Perform routine inspections and condition checks
- Complete operational logs and maintenance records
- Help minimise downtime and maximise plant availability
- Maintain high housekeeping and safety standards
- Support breakdown response and fault rectification
- Work safely under lone working procedures
- Assist Operations Engineers with servicing and maintenance activities
- Ensure compliance with company HSQE procedures
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Skills & Experience Required
- Mechanical or electrical maintenance background
- Experience working on industrial plant, utilities, process plant, CHP, generators, water treatment, manufacturing, or similar environments
- Basic fault-finding and maintenance skills
- Comfortable working independently
- Computer literate
- Good Health & Safety awareness
- Full UK driving licence and own transport
Experience working with power generation equipment, reciprocating engines, CHP, generators, solar, or gas processing plant would be advantageous but is not essential.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to move into the power generation sector or continue building a career within a growing renewable and distributed energy business.
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