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Process Operator

Employer
Undisclosed Company
Location
Vale of Glamorgan
Salary
£8.00 - £8.20 per hour + £8.21 a/o April 1st
Closing date
8 Apr 2019

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Sector
Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
Job Type
Temporary
Hours
Full-time

Manpower are recruiting for Process Operators for our client situated in Barry, UK.

Primary duties are:

  • Collaborating closely with other members of the production area shift team to jointly troubleshoot plant problems and to maximize area output and process unit on-line time.
  • Handle (manual and fork lift) all process materials needed for production. Including packaging of final product and delivery to the warehouse ready for distribution.
  • Collaborating closely to maintenance and other support personnel to safely execute planned maintenance on the process equipment. Ensuring adherence to safe work processes and procedures at all times.
  • Collaborating with other functions such as the warehouse or scheduling team to ensure production progresses to schedule and potential issues are anticipated and resolved before impacting the process units.
  • Maintaining a disciplined approach to following procedures and batch recipes, in addition to ensuring a high attention to detail to ensure process abnormalities are identified quickly and potential quality defects are resolved.
  • Interface with IT based stock management system to ensure accurate records of batch information and material movements. Including assisting with periodic stock checks of the area.

Working Conditions

  • Process operators follow a 12 hour rotating shift pattern, operating 24/7 365 days a year. An annualized hour's cover system is used to provide sickness cover in addition to supporting specific plant activities and a key role expectation is to provide a reasonable amount of overtime cover when needed on the rostered cover days. Holidays are rostered into the shift pattern with a 12 consecutive day rest period every 5 week rotation cycle.
  • Small amount of the work is outside and exposed to all weathers. Majority of the work is inside a building.
  • The range and complexity of operations in the Elastomers Building indicates a need for constant alertness from operators, processes are operated 24/7 utilizing heavy machinery as such shift workers maintain this alertness throughout the standard 12 hour shift pattern. Certain process steps are critical features of processing and particular attention needed during these to ensure quality and successful production.
  • Operator is required to handle different chemicals and additives which require the use of the provided personal protective equipment.
  • Applicant should be physically fit, the nature of job involves some muscular effort - meaning lifting packages/containers and moving drums by hand. However, a number of these jobs have lifting equipment supplied to ease the physical requirements

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