Operations Technician- Energy Recovery

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Douglas
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£45,477 / year
CATEGORY
Energy
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SKILLS

Energy Recovery Boilers Combustion Process Control DCS system operation Health & Safety

FULL DESCRIPTION

Join [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] as a Shift Operations Technician at their Energy Recovery Facility on the Isle of Man, generating clean electricity from waste. Responsibilities include monitoring plant processes, operating boilers, and ensuring compliance with health & safety standards.

What you'll be doing

You’ll help keep our Isle of Man energy recovery plant running safely and efficiently:

  • Monitor, control, and optimise plant processes using the Distributed Control System (DCS), quickly identifying and resolving issues.
  • Operate and maintain water tube boilers, including water analysis, chemistry monitoring, and ensuring optimal performance.
  • Perform safe system isolations to protect people, plant, and the environment.
  • Carry out regular checks, fault diagnosis, and support safe, reliable energy generation during normal operations, start-ups, shutdowns, and emergencies.
  • Ensure full compliance with health & safety standards and environmental legislation at all times.

What we're looking for

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experience levels — enthusiasm for safe, sustainable operations is just as important as technical knowledge:

  • Experience in energy recovery, waste-to-energy, power plants, or similar industrial processes (essential).
  • Knowledge of boilers, combustion, process control, and relevant health & safety / environmental legislation.
  • Preferred: BOAS Cert IBO and/or IOSH Working Safely qualifications (don’t have them? No problem — we’ll fully support your development from day one!).
  • DCS system operation experience (desired but not essential — full training provided where needed).
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