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About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage allocated shift personnel to ensure safe and effective plant operation.
- Ensure compliance with all site safety rules, procedures, permits, and statutory requirements.
- Monitor and optimise plant performance to meet production and quality targets.
- Coordinate plant start-ups, shutdowns, and operational changes.
- Manage shift handovers and maintain accurate operational records and logs.
- Authorise and oversee permit-to-work activities within their area of responsibility.
- Coordinate response to plant upsets, alarms, emergencies, and abnormal operating conditions.
- Ensure routine inspections, sampling, and operational checks are completed.
- Support maintenance activities through isolation, preparation, and reinstatement of plant equipment.
- Identify and report safety, environmental, quality, and reliability concerns.
- Develop, coach, and mentor operations personnel to improve competence and performance.
- Ensure training requirements and competency standards are maintained for shift team members.
- Liaise with maintenance, engineering and management teams to prioritise work activities.
- Ensure compliance with site environmental permits and company policies.
- Provide emergency response and incident management in line with the emergency response plan and associated training.
- Prepared to lead operational meeting as required.
Minimum Requirements
- HNC in production or equivalent experience in an industrial environment and PPO 3 or equivalent.
- Experience of managing chemical process plant operations and/or waste recycling/material handling operations, maintenance, or engineering in a 24/7 operational environment.
- Contributing to plant systems, upgrades, improvements & modifications (Management of Change).
- Safe System of Work processes & procedures: permit to work, Incident control, Risk assessments method statements.
- Understanding & application of SHE requirements at work.
- Knowledge of Control Room Operations (Delta V)
What you will receive from us
Perks & benefits
- Free Gym Membership
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