# Plant Operator

Base Location: Peterhead Power Station, AB42 Salary: SS03 £30,684 - £36,666 depending on skills and experience + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time The role Reporting to the Shift Group Leader, you’ll play a key role in keeping our plant running safely and meeting production needs, by carrying out a variety of operational duties monitoring performance and condition while upholding safety, environmental and company standards. Some of your other main accountabilities will include; Carrying out routine checks and pre-start checks following outages and maintenance, ensuring all safety and environmental requirements are met. Operating plant locally in line with operational instructions, keeping track of changes in plant status and responding effectively. Monitoring the condition of unit and auxiliary plant, identifying faults and accurately reporting defects. Lead by example in following the safe system of work and Generation System Safety Rules. Apply plant isolations in line with procedures for depressurising, draining, pressurising, priming, warming and setting plant for service. To be

- **Id**: 3787572
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sse-plant-operator>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Peterhead, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T11:37:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T06:50:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3769
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Gym membership
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Wind Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 1808654
- **Name**: SSE
- **Domain**: sse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sse-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Salary

- **Min**: 30684
- **Max**: 36666
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 49363

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T04:16:13Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 89
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.888
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:6, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 49363
- **Is top pay**: no

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