Job Opportunity Information

Position Title
Feedstock Planning & Sourcing Co-ordinator
Position Type
Business development
Location
Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK
Language(s)
English
Added on
Thursday, September 11th 2025
Deadline to apply
2025-09-13
Job Description
The employee must schedule on-site and off-site deliveries/despatches, effectively manage the weighbridge(s), and manage on-site and off-site stockholding locations.
Responsibilities
- To work on the daily operational requirements of the AD plant and work with the plant manager to ensure plant is optimised in terms of gas to supply to the grid.
- Agree feed plans for the AD plant with other interested parties and ensure feed plan is designed to maximise gas production.
- Carry out routine plant inspections and make any necessary adjustments to the plant operations, collecting and recording plant data and sharing the information with all relevant parties.
- Carrying out Operational Procedures to ensure that plant is in a fit state, reporting any defects found and creating a log of plant issues and concerns.
Work with the Engineering team to identify plant issues to reduce plant downtime. - Work with 3rd party contractors when they are on site to carry out service and maintenance activities
- Responding to first line and breakdown maintenance requirements as far as background and experience permits. Support the engineering as required with the maintenance activities
- Carrying out simple analysis of to ensure the plant is fully optimised.
- To perform duties in a safe manner to prevent incidents, accidents and environmental incidents with particular attention to following safe systems of work.
- To be on call and change working patterns where necessary to meet the needs of the business.
- Report all near misses, incidents, safety and environmental concerns to Plant Manager.
- Maintain housekeeping standards throughout the facility.
- Drive and operate a range of mobile plants including TM, forklift truck, tele handler and/or front loader.
- Ensure that all tools, mobile plant and equipment checks are carried out on daily basis and maintained in a proper working condition and defects are reported to the Plant Manager.
- Control the feeding process of waste into the treatment lines such as to ensure required treatment efficiencies.
- Assist with the plant operation of the AD when required and accompanying general administrative duties including recording weights & waste type for KPI’s
- Maximise the biogas yields of the fermenters and electricity produced by the engines.
- Laboratory sampling/testing to monitor and ensure the plant is operated within the agreed parameters.
Job Qualifications
Experience
- 3+ years’ experience in the Waste & FMCG Sectors
- Internal and external stakeholder management
- Team management experience
Skills
- Scheduling and planning.
- Relationship building.
- Process management
- Microsoft packages proficient.
- Numerate.
Qualifications
- 5+ GCSEs grades 5-9 or equivalent, including Maths and English Language.
Personal Profile
- Takes responsibility for all aspects of feedstock delivery and site despatches.
- Able to work effectively in a cross functional team.
- Open to learning new skills and taking on board feedback from stakeholders.
- Comfortable building relationships internally and externally.
- Ability to solve problems and implement effective solutions.
- Proactive approach.
- Comfortable to work in a team and independently.
How to apply
Fill the form on the the website.