Plant Manager - Ardley

Viridor; Ardley; On-site; GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading waste management company in Ardley seeks a Plant Manager to oversee the Energy Recovery Facility. The role requires extensive experience in people management, financial oversight, and ensuring safety compliance. The successful candidate will lead a dedicated team, drive operational excellence, and manage P&L responsibilities. This position offers a competitive salary of approximately £90,000 per year along with additional benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Car allowance

Annual bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive people management experience within a large technical department.
• Strong financial acumen with experience in running a P&L.
• Senior management experience in a power generation environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ERF site team in promoting a safety-first culture.
• Ensure plant availability, waste throughput, and energy production targets are met.
• Manage the site's Profit & Loss and prepare the annual budget.

Skills

People management

Financial acumen

Contract management

Job description

Overview

We have an opportunity at our Ardley ERF for a Plant Manager to join our team working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, As our Plant Manager, you will take full accountability for the Energy Recovery Facility (ERF), leading a dedicated team to achieve operational excellence. Your key focus will be on ensuring that safety, predictability, reliability, and availability are the foundation of all decisions made. You'll foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and responsibility within the team, ensuring that a safety-first mindset is always at the forefront.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ERF site team in promoting a safety-first culture while acting as the senior Viridor representative on site.
• Drive safety compliance by effectively implementing the Health & Safety Plan, Environmental Management Plan, and Quality Manual, ensuring alignment with accreditations such as ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001.
• Ensure plant availability, waste throughput, and energy production targets are consistently met, providing regular reports on actual performance against these goals.
• Build and sustain a culture of performance and continuous improvement, focusing on recruitment, staff development, and succession planning.
• Take full ownership of the site's Profit & Loss, preparing the annual budget, managing expenditures, analysing variances, and initiating corrective actions to meet financial objectives.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across departments such as Commercial, PPM, Finance, HR, and SHEQS to support company initiatives and ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Ensure operational practices align with industry best standards, working closely with central teams to identify and implement necessary improvements.
• Maintain rigorous legal and regulatory compliance standards, coordinating with central functions to ensure a consistent and integrated approach.

Qualifications

• Extensive people management experience within a large technical department/region at the senior level.
• Strong financial acumen and experience in running a P&L, preparing and managing budgets.
• Practical implementation of a corporate management system.
• Senior management experience within a power generation or relevant process environment.
• Extensive contract management experience.
• Our Vision is to be the UK's leading innovator of resource recovery and recycling, transforming waste for a climate-positive future.

About Viridor

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 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. 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• The salary for this role will be circa £90,000 per year, plus car allowance, and participation in an annual bonus scheme, in addition to our great range of benefits.

Equal Opportunity

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.