As a Day Operator at our Energy from Waste facility, you will support the day-to-day operations of the plant through a variety of essential operational duties. This includes managing deliveries, monitoring key consumables, maintaining housekeeping standards, and providing operational support across the plant. The role includes both routine and developmental responsibilities, with training provided to cover emergency plant operations and mobile plant use.
- Working hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm
- Location: Allerton Waste Recovery Park, HG5 0SD
Key Responsibilities
- Tanker Offloading and Deliveries: Safely receive and coordinate bulk chemical and waste deliveries.
- Consumables Management: Monitor and replenish operational consumables (e.g. lime, ammonia, urea).
- Housekeeping: Maintain high cleanliness standards across the plant, ensuring safety and operational efficiency.
- Daily Shift Checks: Perform and record site checks as part of operational routines.
- EfW Crane Cover: Provide break cover for overhead grab crane operations (training provided).
- EfW Thermal Plant Cover: Provide emergency cover for thermal plant operation during absences or high demand (training and shadowing opportunities provided).
- Yellow Plant Operations: Operate mobile plant (e.g. telehandler, forklift, front-loader) as needed – training and certification provided.
Person Specification
Skills And Experience
- Experience in an industrial, energy, or waste environment preferred
- Willingness to work flexibly and adapt to changing operational needs
- Good attention to detail and commitment to safe working practices
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a small team
Desirable
- Forklift/telehandler ticket (training will be provided if not held)
- Basic mechanical or process plant knowledge
Qualifications
- Full UK Driving Licence required
- Mobile plant qualifications desirable but not essential
Development Opportunities
This role offers excellent opportunities for progression into more advanced plant operations. Training will be provided in:
- Thermal Plant operations
- Overhead crane use
- Permit-to-work procedures and safe systems of work
- Mobile plant operations (yellow plant)
Benefits
- Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 5%
- Thalia’s pension contribution is 3% and your contribution is 5%
- 24 days annual leave
- Annual opportunity to buy additional annual leave (up to 5 days)
- Life assurance: 2 x annual salary
- Flexible benefits: Access to a wide range of flexible benefits through Bravo Benefits, allowing you to tailor your package to suit your individual needs, including health, wellbeing, and lifestyle options.
- Free parking
Our Business
At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.
We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.
Inclusion
At Thalia Waste Management, we work hard to make sure we are an inclusive and diverse place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV, we’re focused on who you are, your skills and passion that can be brought to Thalia Waste Management. We know and understand the everyone is different and has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We’ll do all that we can to support everyone from their first contact with us. For any support or adjustments needed through our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. As a
Disability Confident Employer, we will make sure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
