Main Plant Operator - Precips

Do you have experience working on a Chemical Plant?

Are you looking for a new challenge, taking responsibility for the Main Plant dry end process? If so, this could be a new role for you!

The Opportunity

To operate and maintain the process plant to deliver against plan within safety and environmental, volume, quality, and cost goals. The Main Plant Operator’s focus of operation and primary responsibility is the operation of the Main Plant dry end process and Bulk Bag packing. This will include the Drier, mills, pack line, blow eggs, and bulk bag filling station plus tanker loading and unloading operations.

Your duties and responsibilities will be:

1. Ensure optimum operation of several complex processes so that plant OEE targets are met.
2. Carry out scheduled preventative maintenance procedures, isolations, and first line breakdown maintenance to minimize plant downtime.
3. Responsible for maintaining a safe operation that complies with safety, environmental, and Company quality standards, including auditing, implementation of corrective actions, reporting, and housekeeping.
4. Provide ‘in process’ analytical function to ensure the product produced is always to the right quality and standard.
5. Provide problem-solving and diagnostic expertise to ensure issues are resolved and plant operation continued.
6. Record accurately all process information such that it can be used to ensure process operation is maintained within set limits, including the use of SPC charts.
7. Train others in tasks they perform regularly within their job role.
8. Participate in Improvement Activities, individually and as part of a team, and perform formal shift handovers as required.

You will have the following qualifications & experience:

1. City & Guilds plant operations part I & II (or equivalent).
2. Process Operations NVQ Level 3.
3. Chemical process plant shift work experience.

The setting for the role

Risks and Hazards are in line with working on a chemical and manufacturing site. These can include chemical burns, trips and falls, overexertion, cuts and scrapes, chemical exposure, inhalation of chemicals, confined spaces, heavy machinery and equipment, electrical hazards, machine guarding, sudden or loud noises, moving vehicles, and working at height. A full site induction will be provided, and all safety requirements must be adhered to when entering the site.

Get in touch now

If you're currently seeking a new opportunity and think you have the skills and experience our client is seeking, then apply today or contact Elizabeth Pimblatt.

Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and respects diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons who are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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