Lead Plant Operator

Job Title:

Lead Plant Operator

Location:

Walpole
Salary: £38,500 per annum + benefits + overtime
Role:
Permanent, Full-time

Overview
We are recruiting for a Lead Plant Operator to support and coordinate day-to-day operations across a busy, outdoor processing site. This role involves overseeing activities across green waste, composting, wood processing, and similar operational areas, ensuring work is carried out safely, compliantly, and efficiently at all times.

Working as part of a small, hands-on team, you will help drive productivity, maintain high housekeeping standards, support site compliance, and coordinate work flow and material movements. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced operator who enjoys outdoor, practical work and is ready to step into a more leadership-focused position.

Ideal Candidate

Experienced plant, process, or site operator, ideally within waste, recycling, aggregates, composting, or similar processing environments
Proven ability to lead by example, coordinate small teams, and maintain operational efficiency
Confident working outdoors in a hands-on, physical role
Experience completing site records, logs, checks, or weighbridge documentation
Strong understanding of health and safety, compliance, and safe systems of work

Key Responsibilities

Lead daily site operations, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient working practices
Coordinate work flow, allocate tasks, and support the achievement of production targets
Oversee material movements, resolve bottlenecks, and minimise site downtime
Maintain accurate records including logs, checks, reports, and site documentation
Support site management with planning, toolbox talks, contractor supervision, and general operational duties

What’s On Offer

Salary of £38,500 per annum
Overtime opportunities
Permanent, full-time position
Outdoor, hands-on operational role
Opportunity to step into a leadership-focused position within site operations

Commutable From
Walpole, King’s Lynn, Wisbech, Downham Market, Hunstanton, Holbeach, Long Sutton, Spalding, and surrounding areas.

If you’re an experienced Lead Plant Operator or senior plant operator with strong practical skills and the ability to guide a small team, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now for immediate consideration.

ABOUT US

This role is being handled by McCarthy Recruitment, an award-winning behavioural leadership recruitment consultancy covering the whole of the UK. McCarthy is like no other recruitment agency you will have worked with, our difference is our commitment to providing a professional and personalised recruitment service of the highest quality.
Start your journey today. Apply now or find us online:

Web:
McCarthy Recruitment
Linked In:
McCarthy Recruitment
Facebook:
Mc Carthy Recruitment
Instagram:
Mc Carthyrecruitment We  are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
By applying for this role, you are explicitly consenting for McCarthy Recruitment to hold and process your data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations.  And your details will be added to our holding database.  We process certain personal information about you for our legitimate business interests in order to identify and contact suitable candidates about positions that may be relevant to them.  

Details are set out in our privacy policy at (url removed)  

If you wish to exercise your right to access, erase or restrict processing of your data please contact us at the office and we will respond to your query