Project Engineer in Liverpool

Location: Liverpool
Salary: £40,000 per year
Recruiter: Olleco
Job Hours: Full-time

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Project EngineerLiverpool, Merseyside£40k – 50k (Dependant on Experience) Plus Pension, BUPA Medical Cash Plan, Life AssuranceThis is an amazing opportunity to develop your professional career whilst helping save the planet by making a positive impact with a ground-breaking business that truly puts safety at the heart of everything they do and have big plans for the future.Olleco is on a mission to help protect the planet, working together with thousands of foodservice businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by hundreds and thousands of tonnes. We are now looking for a Project Engineer to join our team and help us to continue to do things the right way for customers, colleagues and the planet.As a Project Engineer you will be a fundamental part of our team supporting our biodiesel and anaerobic digestion plants and our used cooking oil processing sites. You will enable us to continue with our mission to help protect the planet whilst providing engineering support, executing new install and improvement projects and troubleshooting.This is the role that’s on offer for the right person:You will be based at our Liverpool site, managing your own capital projects from conception and design through to installation, commissioning, and handover, with support of the rest of the engineering team as required.You will also be asked to provide technical and engineering support to site operations on occasion.Our ideal candidate will have efficient communication & organisational skills, who can safely deliver projects to programme, cost, and quality.Why join us?You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference, help us to become more successful and deliver more benefits to the environment.We’re growing and so you will be able to develop your own career.We provide opportunities for you to develop your career and pride ourselves on promoting from within.Within a diverse and inclusive environment, you will have the chance to contribute to our H&S culture and help us maintain our reputation for operational excellence.What do we expect of each other?That each of us act like owners of this growing businessWe collaborate to enable the business to be the best it can be – especially when it comes to safety and wellbeing!Interested?We will be looking for:A degree level qualification in chemical or mechanical engineering (essential).Proven experience of identification of plant improvements and leading the improvement projects from design to commissioning in a commercial environment in a relevant engineering roleIT skillsThe ability to work in an autonomous manner

About Olleco


Olleco is one of the UK’s most progressive circular economy companies, leading the way for the food and hospitality industries to embrace a more sustainable future. We have the global climate crisis front of mind in everything we do and we are deploying human ingenuity to create innovative technologies and dynamic systems that help our partners radically reduce their carbon footprint with the ultimate goal of achieving zero carbon operations.

Employing over 1000 people, at over 19 sites strategically located throughout the UK and Ireland, Olleco services over 50,000 catering establishments. The waste oil Olleco collects is converted into biodiesel and the food waste collected is transformed into biomethane, electricity, heat and organic fertiliser. Olleco operates a network of depots, five used cooking oil processing plants, a biodiesel plant, a bulk liquid storage facility and three anaerobic digestion (AD) plants with support from a wider network of licensed AD facilities.

As of April 2019 we were also awarded the Royal Warrant by Her Majesty The Queen for our service of delivering fresh oil to, and collecting used oil from, Royal Estates across the country.

Olleco is the renewables arm of ABP Food Group.

We always have amazing opportunities to join our team. Check out our current vaccines to help make a difference and save the planet. We’re a business making a positive impact and truly put safety at the heart of everything we do and have big plans for the future.

Find our current vaccines, why you should join us and what we expect from each other here careers.olleco.co.uk/Olleco/Home

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