px Group

Shift Team Leader

px Group  •  Nottingham, GB (Onsite)  •  22 days ago
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Job Description

Shift Team Leader

Application Deadline: 3 July 2026

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Nottingham

Our Business

px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit www.pxlimited.com

Widmerpool Biomass Plant is the second Gren-owned site managed by px Group following the successful partnership at Holbrook biomass CHP facility in Sheffield which began in 2019. The 6.8MWe biomass-fired combined heat and power station is designed to provide sustainable green electricity for over 10,000 homes.

The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Shift Team Leader.

The Shift Team Leader is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the Biomass Power Plant at Widmerpool. You will manage all aspects of the Biomass Power Plant to ensure it functions at maximum levels of safety, availability, efficiency and power output.

This role includes a rotating shift pattern that includes weekends and Public Holidays as well as a requirement to provide shift rota cover as required to ensure continuous operation of the Biomass Power Plant.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the plant is always operated within prescribed Health, Safety and Environmental constraints and guidelines.
  • Detailed incident reporting and collation of data as soon as possible after any accident/incident.
  • Emergency Response: ensuring that the team responds correctly to any plant emergencies.
  • Complies with all safe working processes and procedures.
  • Ensure that all production tasks are carried out within the bounds of px Limited’s Safe Work Processes (Safety Rules, Method Statement/SOP & Risk Assessments).
  • Provide effective administration and application of Safe Systems of Work and Health & Safety policies.
  • Ensure compliance with all aspects of the site Environmental Permit.
  • Familiarity with all operating standards and reporting requirements for the plant.
  • Carry out first line diagnosis and maintenance activities in conjunction with current procedures in order to preserve the highest levels of safety, environmental compliance, plant integrity and availability.
  • Comply with and actively participate in Company rules, procedures and initiatives, in particular those relating to Health, Safety, Environmental management and Continuous Improvement.
  • Keep the Management team well informed of all aspects of plant performance which may impact upon the safe, efficient, reliable and cost-effective operation of the plant.
  • Day to day operational responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of the Fuel Feed, Furnace, Boiler, Steam Turbine, Flue Gas Treatment, Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS), Ash Collection Systems and balance of plant including Water Treatment Plant.
  • Perform the role of a Senior Authorised Person (SAP) in line with px Limited Safety Rules. As such, ensure Safety from the System is achieved by safely isolating, depressurising, draining and cooling aspects of Plant and Apparatus as necessary to enable rectification/maintenance works to be carried out safely.
  • Actively participate in daily Work Control meetings with the site management team to ensure effective communication of plant performance and to assist in the co-ordination of essential maintenance activities.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Recognised apprenticeship/engineering qualification.
  • Practical experience in an operations or maintenance role in a power generation, EfW, marine propulsion, petrochemical or process systems setting.
  • Experience of operating plant via a DCS/SCADA interface.
  • Knowledge of pressure systems, LV and HV electricity preferable.
  • Proficient IT skills including word & excel for reporting duties.
  • Understanding of Safe Systems of Work.
  • Willingness to work shift systems associated with a 24/7 operation

What you will receive from us:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

px Group

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.

Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.

This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.

px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.

We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockton On Tees, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
pxlimited.com
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