Biogas Plant Manager

Our client, an international role player in water and energy management, seeks to employ a Plant Manager to manage a biogas plant in Gauteng. Responsible for general supervision of all phases of plant operations including staff management; production; quality control; maintenance; CAPEX; OPEX; Health, Safety and Environment.

For the position you would be required to have:

• BSc/BEng/BTech in Mechanical or Electrical engineering
• At least 5 - 8 years’ experience in an industrial environment which includes a power generation facility of at least 3MW
• Professional Certificated Engineer (Pr.Cert Eng), GMR 2.1 appointment preferred
• Knowledge of anaerobic digestion, wastewater treatment, or biomass power generation processes, including components like pumps, mixers, engines, and SCADA systems is essential.
• At least 5 years’ experience in managing staff in a production environment

Responsibilities would include you to:

• Overseeing daily operations, managing processes and equipment in compliance with legislation, maintaining preventative maintenance systems, monitoring production, and planning activities like waste deliveries and ash removal.
• Work with the laboratory to ensure consistency in blended feedstocks, biology of the Anaerobic Digester system, quality of digestate and optimization in the production and quality of the gas
• Work closely with employees to review production consistency while monitoring gas loss rates to determine trends and areas of improvement.
• Monitor operational expenses and research ways to reduce costs while maintaining gas production levels and gas quality
• Contribute in the development of an annual risk profile for Operations by identifying overall business risks and applicable mitigation actions.
• Ensure the availability of the necessary processes, systems and tools to ensure that staff can perform their respective responsibilities.
• Develop a clear communication strategy with all relevant stakeholders, ensure proper record keeping of all important reports on stakeholder engagements.
• Assist in developing SLAs with all relevant stakeholders and review SLA’s biannually or as and when required
• Health and safety management (SHEQ management).
• Staff development, control and supervision.

Please apply online or contact Jan van Dyk on 021 – 531 2015 for more information