Dan Grosvenor

Astutes Power Team are recruiting for a Boiler Combustion Engineer to support a fleet of Biomass and Energy from Waste Power Stations across the United Kingdom. The Boiler Combustion Engineer role comes with competitive salary and benefits including private medical and bonus opportunity. If you’re a Mechanical Engineer or Combustion Specialist and are looking to work for an organisation that puts integrity and people at the forefront of everything it does, then submit your CV to apply today. Responsibilities and duties of the Boiler Combustion Engineer role Reporting to the Director of Plant Performance, you will:  

• Optimise boiler and plant operations to deliver safe, stable and efficient performance while meeting environmental and operational standards across the fleet.
• Analyse plant performance and operational data to identify anomalies, efficiency losses and opportunities for improvement.
• Investigate boiler fouling, erosion and operational challenges, provide technical solutions and support root-cause investigations and troubleshooting activities.
• Support plant performance and maintenance activities across the fleet, including outage inspections, performance testing and the development of recommendations to improve reliability and availability.
• Develop and enhance engineering tools, models and methodologies, while sharing knowledge, lessons learned and best practices across the team.

Professional qualifications   We are looking for someone with the following:  

• Mechanical or Marine Engineer with a strong interest in thermodynamics
• A HNC / HND / OND or Degree qualification in a relevant engineering field
• Prior experience with boiler and combustion systems in power plants or other energy facilities.
• Full, clean UK Drivers License and willingness to travel UK wide

  Personal skills   The Boiler Combustion role would suit someone who has:  

• Strong analytical skills
• Good verbal and written communication and the ability to work collaboratively

Salary and benefits of the Boiler Combustion Engineer role  

• Competitive basic salary
• Bonus opportunity
• Hybrid working from office based in Warrington with UK wide travel
• Full benefits including private medical

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Astute's Power Team are looking for an EC&I (Electrical, Controls & Instrumentation) Technician to join a brand new Energy from Waste Power Station located in Walsall. The facility, which is currently under construction, will provide a vital outlet for the sustainable disposal of over 436,000 tonnes of residual waste per year and will generate over 49 megawatts of low carbon energy. The successful applicant will be responsible for performing pre-planned and reactive maintenance of all EC&I assets on site. If you have the right skills & experience and want to find out more, please get in touch! Responsibilities and duties: As the EC&I Technician, you will be responsible for:

• Pre-planned and reactive maintenance duties on all electrical, controls and instrumentation assets across the power station
• Fault finding/maintaining mostly electrical system; motors, drives, single phase & three phase equipment, switchgear, high/low voltage plant etc. and Instrumentation (pressure, temperature, level & flow) and control systems
• Calibrating instrumentation
• Conducting continuous improvement activities, plant modifications and design work
• Supervising 3rd party contractors
• Working in line with maintenance techniques and best practices
• Assisting in plant developments and projects
• Maintaining accurate maintenance records on the site CMMS
• Assist in outage planning, scheduling and coordination.
• To ensure the availability of plant spares

Professional qualifications We are looking for someone with the following:

• Ideally qualified in a recognised Electrical / C&I apprenticeship in a heavy process industry
• A relevant technical qualification such as an NVQ / ONC / HNC in Electrical, Control or Instrumentation engineering or a similar discipline
• COMPEX would be advantageous
• 17th / 18th edition

Personal skills The EC&I Technician role would suit someone with:

• At least 4 years of hands-on maintenance experience with motors, switchgear, instrumentation (flow, level, pressure, temperature etc) and control systems (SCADA, DCS and PLC)
• Practical knowledge of process plant and equipment gained in a heavy engineering environment such as power generation, petrochemical, steel works, CHP plant, paper mill etc. Royal Navy Marine Engineers will also be considered.
• Experience with High-Voltage equipment such as transformers / switchgear will be advantageous.

Salary and benefits of the EC&I Technician role

• Highly competitive basic salary
• Bonus opportunity
• Overtime
• Full training plans
• Opportunity to join a new Energy from Waste plant
• Full and extensive benefits package

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