Site Process Operator - Widnes, United Kingdom - BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)

BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)

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Widnes, United Kingdom

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Description

Site Process Operator:

Responsibilities:

To control and operate plant operations in a safe and efficient manner.
To ensure that site and local SHE procedures are properly applied and identify opportunities for improvement.
To encourage compliance with safety health and environment rules, procedures and legislation amongst contractors and drivers
To undertake FLT daily checks and report problems
To drive FLT counterbalance (and FEL where appropriate) within site policies and procedures
To ensure correct PPE is worn at all times.
To ensure correct disposal of waste using recycling systems where appropriate.
To report accidents, incidents and near misses promptly using ETQ reporting tool and assist with investigation where appropriate.
To monitor processes via routine walkrounds and SCADA systems and identify problems and troubleshoot plant processes.
To be fully flexible in the use of skills and competencies on own and other plant operations across the site.
To be proactive in the control of process plant, working individually or as part of a team, including the taking of corrective actions in order to maintain the operation to the required standards.
To carry out in process testing to ensure product quality meets set conformance targets.
To ensure samples are booked into the QC area of the Technical Services building.
Raise maintenance work orders for plant breakdowns, planned or safety related tasks.
To ensure timely and accurate data entry on both computer and in manual, written logs with appropriate interpretation of information.
To liaise with tradesmen, QC, process engineer, logistics, etcwhere necessary.
To control and log all stock including the ordering of raw materials where appropriate.
To ensure excellent housekeeping standards for the plant areas are achieved and maintained.
To undertake tasks outside main area of skill and competence under TEST principles.

Requirements:

Good teamworking and communication skills
Excellent operational knowledge in his/her plant area of responsibility.
Good understanding of site polices, practices and legislative requirements.
Ability to proactively control and operate the process plants in his/her plant area of responsibility.
Flexible approach with a capacity to work well and maintain performance levels under pressure.

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Our Plus:

In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.

BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages.

They include the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, the Participation in site bonus scheme and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement as well as excellent development opportunities.

Job number:

AW00240

Legal entity:

BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)

Location:

Widnes Cheshire

Further locations:

Duxford

About us:

BYK, as part of the ALTANA Group, is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals.

Our innovative BYK additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behavior of materials, and properties such as UV- and light stability or flame retardancy.

BYK has a global network of subsidiaries and employs a workforce of more than 2,500 people worldwide.

BYK Additives UK Ltd. operation is based in Widnes. It has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923.

The site has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA Group, a privately owned speciality chemicals company since 2013.

Two major product groups, Laponite and Fulcat/Fulacolor, are made at the Widnes site. These products have contributed significantly to the ongoing success of the business.

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ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.