EC&I Technician

At Thalia Waste Management, our Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park is a complex Energy from Waste facility, combining Mechanical Treatment (MT), Anaerobic Digestion (AD), and Advanced Thermal Treatment (gasification) technologies.

As an EC&I Technician, youll take ownership of the sites control systems across these technologies, providing technical support to operations and ensuring all instrumentation and control assets remain compliant and fully functional.

Youll work as part of a multi-skilled engineering team, supporting safe, reliable plant performance and contributing to fault finding, continuous improvement, and maintenance delivery across the facility.

Role Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimise all EC&I systems across the site, ensuring compliance with Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental standards
• Provide technical support to operations, diagnosing and resolving EC&I-related issues
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and ensure annual instrument compliance activities are completed
• Conduct fault finding and investigations using Siemens PCS7 (or equivalent systems)
• Support and maintain SCADA systems and software modules
• Take ownership of the Safety Instrumented System (SIS), including maintenance and proof testing
• Lead or support Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for EC&I-related incidents
• Develop and implement engineering procedures, method statements, and technical documentation
• Support planned and unplanned outages, ensuring EC&I work is delivered safely and on schedule
• Complete accurate maintenance reporting within the CMMS
• Identify failure modes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
• Actively contribute to site safety culture, including near miss reporting and incident investigations

Shifts

• Monday to Friday
• Rotating shifts:
  • 06:00 14:00
  • 08:00 16:00
  • 12:00 22:00
• Participation in an on-call rota

Skills and Experience

• Strong experience with electrical systems in industrial or process environments
• Practical understanding of Health & Safety within electrical engineering (installation, operation, inspection, maintenance)
• Experience in fault finding, diagnostics, and control systems
• Ability to assess equipment condition and make sound engineering judgements
• Experience supporting or mentoring technical teams
• Comfortable producing technical documentation, reports, and cost estimates
• IT literate, including Microsoft Office (knowledge of AutoCAD desirable)

Qualifications

• Recognised EC&I Apprenticeship
• ONC/HNC in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (or equivalent)
• Certificate in Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) (desirable)

**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 dont just look at your CV, were 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 were happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! Well 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.