Allerton Waste Recovery Park, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Job Description
Posted Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 00:00 | Expires Sunday 24 August 2025 at 23:59
At Thalia, we are looking for a Reliability Engineer to join our team at Allerton Waste Recovery Park. You’ll be at the forefront of transforming how we maintain and manage critical assets, supporting Thalia’s mission to drive sustainability through innovation in waste and energy. This role will report to the Account Director and sit on the senior management team.
* Location: Allerton Waste Recovery Park, Moor Lane, Knaresborough, HG5 0SD
* Working Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm
The Role
* Investigating recurring failures and preventing breakdowns using proven reliability tools (RCM, FMEA, RCA).
* Collaborating across teams to improve preventative maintenance and condition monitoring.
* Supporting engineering compliance and delivering asset lifecycle improvements.
* Contributing technical insight to capital projects and investment cases.
* You’ll work closely with operational, maintenance and engineering teams – both on-site and across the Thalia group – to make our assets work better, for longer.
The Person
* Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Process Engineering (or equivalent).
* Chartered or working towards chartered status (IMechE, IET or similar).
* Strong experience in reliability or maintenance engineering within asset-heavy sectors like waste, energy, manufacturing or utilities.
* Hands-on use of CMMS and engineering analytics to drive smarter decisions.
* A proactive, collaborative mindset with the confidence to influence across disciplines.
* Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 10%
* Contributory pension up to 8%
* Private medical cover (single)
* Company car or car allowance (£493 per month)
* 25 days annual leave
* Annual opportunity to buy additional annual leave (up to 5 days)
* Life assurance: 4 x annual salary
* Flexible benefits: Access to a wide range of flexible benefits through Bravo Benefits, allowing you to tailor your package to suit your individual needs, including health, wellbeing, and lifestyle options.
* Free parking
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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 don’t just look at your CV, we’re 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 we’re happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We’ll 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 ConfidentEmployer, 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.
Allerton Waste Recovery Park, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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