Plant Technician

Berry Recruitment are currently seeking a Plant Technician for a client based in St Austell area.

As a Plant Technician your role is to develop and improve novel process technologies for extracting, refining and purifying lithium from micaceous granites.

You will be responsible for the successful execution of scale-up / pilot trials, preparing operating data and contributing to the production of commissioning and operating plans for the companies' project.

You will have a chance to be involved in dialogue with design engineers, and project stakeholders in defining, specifying and de-risking the process technology that will deliver lithium carbonate product to the market.

Your role:

As a member of the Operations team, you will undertaking trials and operating campaigns in the IBL Pilot Plant and being responsible for:

• safe operation of fixed plant and mobile plant,
• contribution to sustaining capital and improvement capital requests,
• logging and recording trial and analytical data, and reporting of the outcomes of operations,
• observing Safe Systems of Work operating procedures, start-up/shut-down procedures, safe work procedures and risk assessments,
• maintenance of fixed plant equipment,
• basic maintenance and calibrations of instrumentation,
• basic modifications to fixed plant and to the process flow,
• coordinating samples for analytical assays, including collecting, labelling, and shipping,
• chemical hazard mitigation in the Pilot Plant area, including updating COSHH records for plant chemicals.
• sample collection, sample preparation, drying, filtration, splitting, crushing, pulverising, pelletising, pXRF testing as required,
• creating and collecting process data to develop robust understandings of mineral and chemical processes, concise summation of operational data for transfer into process engineering deliverables for the design of the commercial CAB and LCR plants.

Your skills:

As part of a small agile team with a start-up mindset, you will be thriving in a dynamic environment and be motivated to undertake a wide range of types of work, ideally experienced in;

• the scale-up of mineral and chemical process technologies,
• process plant operations and process engineering,
• open to engaging with lean methodologies,
• be able to identify and navigate complexity, overcome hurdles, including engaging constructively with peers, team members, and line management,
• vocational health and safety qualification, relevant vocational qualification in fixed plant operations, or equivalent industry experience.

This is a full time, permanent role, starting immediately.

Working hours are 8am until 4.30pm, Monday to Friday

Salary is £32k per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.

If you would like to get involved in an exciting new pilot project please do not hesitate to get in touch with Mariola at Berry Recruitment Cornwall today!

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.