Trainee Operations Technician

Coryton, Essex, England, United Kingdom

The Role

At InterGen , we’re proud of our culture – one built on teamwork, operational excellence and having health and safety at the heart of what we do. We have an exciting opportunity for 2 x new Trainee Operations Technicians to join our team at Coryton Power Station on a 2 year-fixed term contract. We are expanding our Operations team to strengthen our technical capability and support the long-term performance of our recently upgraded plant.

We’re looking for motivated individuals with the right mindset for developing a career in the energy sector and an interest in gaining hands-on experience operating and maintaining a gas-fired power station. Through structured training and development programmes over the next 2 years, you will learn how to safely operate plant equipment, monitor performance, perform first-line diagnosis, and support maintenance that helps maximise plant availability.

If you’re collaborative, solutions-focused, and ready to make a real impact in a high performing environment, we’d love to hear from you!

The Coryton Team

The Coryton team are a group of highly skilled individuals focused on delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective energy. We manage the operations and maintenance of our Combined Cycle Power Plant, striving for high reliability and continuous improvement through our team mindset, knowledge, skills, and passion. Our goal is to deliver sustainable generation and become a flexible, effective, and reliable power plant to support a diverse yet connected electricity supply system.

Coryton is a friendly, sociable, and exciting environment and when we’re not hard at work, you can expect regular company-funded social events and seasonal gatherings, or time spent raising funds for our chosen charities.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will complete a structured training and competency programme to develop the skills required to operate a modern power station safely and efficiently, and set you up for success to be able to confidently:

• Follow and promote the company's Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards, actively contributing to site safety initiatives and HSE improvement activities.
• Learn to operate, monitor and supervise plant equipment from both the Central Control Room and in the field, carrying out routine inspections and operational checks.
• Support plant start-ups, shutdowns and return-to-service activities by carrying out pre-start checks and operational procedures following maintenance and outage periods.
• Assist with first-line fault diagnosis and supporting maintenance and engineering teams during planned and reactive maintenance activities.
• Use the site's maintenance management system to complete operational, compliance and safety-related tasks, while developing an understanding of operational procedures, documentation and reporting requirements.
• Participate in testing activities, projects and continuous improvement initiatives to help maintain plant performance, reliability and safety.
• Work closely with experienced Operations , Maintenance and Engineering colleagues to build your technical knowledge and progress towards becoming a fully competent Operations Technician

Why you?

As our new Trainee Operations Technician , you’ll be technically minded, eager to learn and interested in developing a long-term career within the power generation industry. Ideally, you’ll have a basic understanding of process engineering within mechanical or electrical disciplines. You have a strong commitment and understanding of health, safety and environmental standards alongside good problem solving and fault-finding abilities. Collaboration is key – you work well across disciplines and bring strong communication and teamwork skills, however you’re also able to eventually work unsupervised and take responsibility in a dynamic, operational environment that helps keep Coryton running smoothly.

Education/Experience

Minimum of Level 2 Engineering

This position will best suit a college level student at the end of 2nd year studying any Engineering discipline OR , at least 1 year in power generation industry operations and maintenance, or related heavy industry

What we offer

• Starting salary of £44,781.78
• 35 days holiday (includes bank holidays)
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme of 10%
• Pension Scheme – 3% min employee contribution, 8% InterGen contribution
• Health & Wellbeing Allowance of £650 per year for trainers, gym memberships, massages and much more!
• Company Sick Pay Scheme
• Annual Eyecare Vouchers
• Savings & Discounts Platform
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity benefits
• Educational & Training Assistance Programmes

Why InterGen?

No matter where you are working at InterGen, you will be part of a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and teamwork are championed.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and you will help us foster a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes and help shape our culture.

We provide a wide array of compensation, benefits and wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees. We believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you with yours by offering the development resources you need to advance your career.

With the strength of our company and reputation behind you, a culture of high-performance that motivates you and the freedom to drive your career your way, our shared vision, mission and values will inspire you to make an impact in an organisation whose vision is working towards a world with stable and dependable energy for generations.

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