C&I Technician

Vital Energi; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Energi at Port Clarence in Teesside is seeking a C&I Technician to support condition-based monitoring, planned maintenance, and outage execution on a waste-to-energy facility. You will maintain high safety standards, respond to faults, and work with the operations team to keep plant availability high while ensuring compliance with environmental and safety requirements.

The role requires familiarity with DCS/PLC systems, CMMS, and robust hands-on experience in propulsion of control and

Qualifications

• OND/HNC in Engineering or similar technical qualification.
• Minimum 5 years in power generation or energy-from-waste environment.
• IOSH or NEBOSH Managing Safely or similar safety qualification.

Responsibilities

• Maintain health, safety and environmental standards on site.
• Investigate incidents and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Plan and execute maintenance using CMMS and JHA procedures.
• Supports outage planning, scheduling and execution.
• Coordinate with plant operations to maximise availability and performance.

Skills

Power generation

I&C maintenance

Reliability maintenance

Safety culture

Root cause analysis

Education

OND/HNC in Engineering

IOSH/NEBOSH Safety qualification

Tools

CMMS

DCS/PLC knowledge

Excel

Job description

Start your sustainable career with Vital Energi at Port Clarence! We’re transforming Energy from Waste, helping power local communities, and protecting the planet for future generations. Join us and be part of the future of energy.

The Opportunity

We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for a C&I Technician at our new energy from waste infrastructure, Port Clarence biomass facility in Teesside.

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a talented and experienced C&I Technician to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the condition-based monitoring, planned and reliability-centred maintenance, breakdown response and rectification activities, lifecycle maintenance, and outage planning and execution. The role encompasses maintenance of waste-fired high-pressure boilers, flue gas treatment systems, steam turbines and generators, ash handling equipment, auxiliary balance-of-plant equipment, high-voltage apparatus, and the distributed control (DCS) system.

Additionally, the role requires close liaison with the Plant operations team, and other teams across the organisation ensuring high levels of plant availability and performance within approved budgets, while maintaining safety as the foremost priority.

Vital Energi- Port Clarence- Strategic asset ownership journey

Port Clarence represents the next phase of Vital Energi's evolution from energy solutions provider to significant asset owner, processing 320,000 tonnes of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and produce over 30Mwe, this marks a substantial step-change in scale and ambition. Vital Energi will further invest in the optimisation of the Drakelow EfW plant to improve its productivity and returns, ensuring it continues to deliver robust operational and financial performance as part of the company’s growing portfolio. The energy generated by both facilities will be exported back to the national grid.

The Role

• Delivers and maintains high standards relating to health and safety performance and culture, environmental compliance and site housekeeping.
• Comply with and actively participate in Company rules, procedures, initiatives, in particular those relating to Health, Safety, environmental management, quality systems and continuous improvement.
• Promotes an environment whereby safety is a priority, ensuring that personnel operate safely at all times and immediately reporting any unsafe acts or conditions as per the incident reporting systems.
• In conjunction with management team, thoroughly and promptly assist with investigating any accidents or near misses to ensure that any unsafe practices or conditions are addressed and eliminated immediately.
• Knowledge of the site emergency plan, key role within it and supports the site emergency response team.
• Complies fully with corporate safety rules, site safety rules and associated safe systems of work, PTW, RAMS and authorisation procedures to ensure that the plant is always maintained within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
• Assists with the development, maintenance and implementation of operating and emergency instructions and procedures following OEM operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ensures plant systems are safely isolated, depressurised, drained and cooled as necessary for maintenance personnel to carry out rectification works or maintenance tasks safely.
• Ensures that the correct PPE/RPE is worn at all times as identified in the Risk Assessment/Method Statement applicable to the activity being performed.
• Assists the Maintenance Manager in the development of a comprehensive set of plant maintenance procedures.
• Ensures that a work order, risk assessment and method statements are produced for each activity and that all documents are completed in accordance with the Company CMMS procedures.
• Using the Company CMMS, plans, supports, and documents both preventative and reactive maintenance tasks.
• Assists with investigations into plant and process issues including root cause analysis, providing technical expertise, evaluating process variables, maintaining records, writing reports and taking appropriate action to ensure plant operations remain within design and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures that the plant is maintained in accordance with the prescribed O&M guidelines or approved instructions following evaluation of operational history and plant information.
• Effectively uses Condition Based monitoring (CBM), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Vibration Analysis (VA) methods to ensure the plant is maintained to the highest standards, resulting in high efficiency and reliability, whilst reducing labour task times and minimising spend.
• Ensures that the C&I Engineer and Shift Team Leader(s) are informed of maintenance activities that impact upon availability and reliability.
• Assist the C&I Engineer to ensure that plant statutory and regulatory insurance inspections and obligations are undertaken with an appointed Inspector in accordance with company policies and procedures.

Outage Duties

The following is a summary of the main tasks and responsibilities, however additional requirements may be needed in order to complete outage works on time and to budget, ensuring safety is kept as the highest priority.

• Assists Outage Lead, ensuring all planned and outage maintenance aspects, including planning, execution, monitoring, record keeping and reporting are executed to meet the site’s annual O&M plan objectives.
• Assists with compiling work scopes and in the development of outage plans based upon standard outage work scopes, known defects, availability threats, approved project works and routine maintenance activities.
• Assists Plant Management and operational lead staff with the development of outage maintenance contracts.

The Person

Have a background in engineering or process operations and hold the following qualifications:

• OND/HNC level or above in an Engineering discipline, preferably C&I , or other technical disciplines, ideally related to power generation.
• A minimum of 5 years progressively responsible experience in the power generation environment, Energy from Waste, or similar industry. IOSH or NEBOSH Managing Safely general certificate or similar safety qualification required as a minimum.
• Professional membership with a professional body such as the IET, or similar.

Experience

• In-depth knowledge of steam raising plant and power generation equipment instrumentation & control systems.
• Familiar with PTW, SSOW, RAMS & AP training.
• Experience with computerised monitoring and reporting systems (CMMS).
• Knowledge and experience of fault finding and repairs of controls and instrumentation on plant equipment.
• Knowledge, experience and familiarity of working under CDM regulations is desirable.
• IT literate and competent to manage excel-based spreadsheets and produce written reports in word format.
• Must have very good knowledge and be able to demonstrated proficiency in process control, maintenance and troubleshooting of Plant DCS/PLC equipment.
• Good understanding of associated limits and alarms and ability to troubleshoot and correct faults within hardware or software related systems.

Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time‑limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:

Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third-party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.