Plant Manager Job Sunderland area,England UK,Manufacturing / Production

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The Plant Manager will possess a comprehensive range of chemical plant operational knowledge, ideally with suitable qualifications to provide a wide range of effective support.

The role will fully support the daily operations of the Production department. The role will require strong people skills with experience of training and assessing competence.

Experience and knowledge gained working within top tier CoMAH regulations including corresponding environmental, health and safety legislative requirements is fundamental to this role.

Responsibilities

Compliance with Health and Safety Regulations and with all relevant Quality Assurance and Environmental Procedures to the production and support operations

Promote a positive health and safety culture by maintaining audit ready sites through sustaining good housekeeping standards, wearing correct PPE, reporting any observed near misses and isolating any unsafe situations

Work closely with the Logistics Manager ensuring that production and logistical plans are fully communicated and followed by operational teams

Work with the Business Processes team ensuring the management of operational Key Performance Indicators for production rates and yields

Work closely with shift teams to identify, explore and deliver 'World Class' levels of performance by continuous improvement of the site to improve aspects of safety, environmental, cost and operational performance

Aid the development of an open culture and create an environment for continuous improvement through empowerment and mutual challenging of performance; support CI opportunities from initial reviews right through to plant trials

Provide input to plant occupancy and efficiency reviews especially to reduce the percentage of non‑value added time and costs

Ensure good control of site costs with regards to production consumables, waste disposal costs, reagents and utility consumption

Coach and assess production staff as part of their personnel development including identification of any additional training needs including the identification and management of any underperformance as per Tradebe procedures

Manage the operational team staffing levels ensuring sufficient and competent manning is available for holiday, sickness and training cover in order to operate process plant safely and fulfil business requirements

Manage the issuing of all Permit to Work on site ensuring suitable control measures and isolations are defined by production staff. Issue high level hot and confined space entry permits as required to Tradebe procedures

Ensure all operational site testing, monitoring and control of site emissions as per consent agreements are correctly completed and adhered to. Additionally that effective communication channels and approvals are used for any adjustments and or deviations

Review the performance and output of the production team ensuring the safe, standardised and efficient operation of all plant and equipment as per process operating instructions, quality requirements and technical documentation

Support any investigations as required in response to customer complaints, incidents or accidents and follow up with appropriate actions to prevent reoccurrences

Ensure all Non‑Conforming materials coming into site or produced are correctly managed and as appropriate accepted or rejected as per Tradebe procedures

Manage shift teams making sure that all equipment defects and alarms are reported, ensuring such issues are appropriately managed, i.e. all unsafe items are suitably isolated

Support to the engineering team to aid with design input, task / risk assessments, and to lead production commissioning / snagging of reinstated or newly installed equipment

Management of change (MoC) must be followed and used to control equipment modifications and procedural / personnel changes, including review of requests impacting production

Responsible for ensuring all wastes generated on site are managed efficiently and disposed of in a timely fashion in line with current legislation and good practise

To be available out of hours to provide a reasonable level of answers to production queries from site

Assist Site management in all aspects of their work and deputise production related duties in peoples absence

3.0 Role

Work closely supporting the Production Manager to ensure the site is operated in a manner conductive to good Health, Safety & Environmental practices, paying particular attention to housekeeping, completion of site checks and performing routine audits

Housekeeping standards are maintained around the plant in accordance with best practises, with particular focus to compliance with DSEAR

To provide technical support for operational teams whilst ensuring they are following all process operating instructions, test methods and technical documents to safely and efficiently operate plant and processes whilst complying with all health, safety and environmental…


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