Senior Process Engineer (Speciality Chemicals) / England

Our client manufacture Speciality Chemicals globally, they are now looking to recruit a Senior Process Engineer to be based in Hartlepool. You will provide technical, operational and process safety support to the site and be plant process expert.
 
Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement of plant performance by identifying and implementing improvement opportunities to achieve the current and future capacity, variable costs and product quality
• Ensure that all process incidents or losses are investigated using appropriate problem-solving tools so that improvements can be made to prevent recurrence.
• Liaise with the site technical team and projects team to ensure that development activities and projects have sufficient manufacturing input throughout the project duration, including at all key design and installation review stages.
• Ensure thorough safety assessment of plant modifications so that any changes to process technology, plant operating and maintenance methods, plant equipment or staffing are evaluated appropriately to mitigate the risks.
• Lead plant trials ensuring that thorough technical and safety assessments are carried out in a timely manner and trial is communicated appropriately with the manufacturing team.
• Ownership of the plant’s environmental performance and environmental compliance ensuring all issues are investigated and resolved.

 
Experience & Qualifications

• Candidates will hold a Degree in Chemical or Process Engineering
• Be a Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartered status
• Hold 5+ years of industry experience in the Upper Tier COMAH manufacturing sector
• Manufacturing operational experience including manufacturing improvement and delivery of measurable business benefits.
• Sound knowledge of manufacturing improvement strategies and approaches (OEE, Capacity Roadmap, Six Sigma, Lean, MTBF, MTTR, Failure Rates etc.)
• Well-developed IT skills (including Excel, PI / FIS, MiniTab) including the ability to create tools within the packages