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About this role
Be part of the future of project engineering and innovation at Biffa.
Location: Redcar
Hours of work: Monday to Friday days (37.5 hours per week)
A quick look at the role
Join Biffa as a Project Engineer and help deliver engineering projects that run safely, on time, and on budget. You’ll provide technical expertise, coordinate activities, and support the senior management team at Redcar, focusing on uptime, reliability, and smooth day-to-day operations.
Your core responsibilities
- Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of engineering projects at Biffa.
- Liaise with clients, contractors, consultants, and internal teams to ensure smooth project execution.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and propose solutions to keep projects on track.
- Provide technical expertise, review drawings, specifications, and documents for accuracy and compliance.
- Ensure all work meets health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, reports, and handover information.
- Communicate progress and technical updates clearly to stakeholders and senior management.
- Contribute to uptime, reliability, and efficiency across site operations.
Our essential requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or relevant discipline)
- Full, current driving licence
- Understanding of engineering drawings and principles
- Management of process and lean improvement projects
- The following job titles would be considered relevant to this role and include, but are not limited to, Project Engineer, Junior Project Engineer, Engineering Project Coordinator, Project Manager (Engineering), Capital Projects Engineer, Manufacturing Project Engineer, and Process Project Engineer.
And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.
- Competitive salary
- Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
- Generous pension scheme.
- Medical and dental scheme.
- Retail and leisure discounts.
- Holiday and travel discounts.
- Bike to work scheme
Changing the way people think about waste.
At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.
Dedicated to diversity.
Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.
Other facts
About Biffa Waste Services
Founded in London in 1912, Biffa is a leading UK nationwide integrated waste management business providing collection, treatment, recycling and technologically-driven energy generation services. Through the expertise of our people and investment in technology we promote and deliver sustainable waste management solutions.
We provide an essential service to satisfy the business needs of our commercial, industrial and public sector customers throughout the UK, and help them to meet their legal obligations and corporate responsibility commitments.
We employ 10,000 people and collect waste from thousands of businesses and millions of households across the UK each day.
Our surplus food redistribution partnership with Company Shop Group, and our environmental work with BiffaAward and Waste Aid, also have wider benefits for the UK and beyond.
Since 2002 we’ve reduced our carbon emissions by 70 per cent and aim to be net zero by 2050.
What you'll do
- The Project Engineer will support the planning, coordination, and delivery of engineering projects at Biffa. They will liaise with various stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution and monitor project progress to identify risks and propose solutions.
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