Production Assistant London, England
Job description
ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal. ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize. The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s® and Sidul®.
Due to retirement, we are seeking an enthusiastic Production Assistant to join our factory team at the Thames Refinery. As the production assistant, you'll be working with other team members on coordinating support for our food production process teams. This is a dual role with hands-on responsibilities in our refinery aswell as administration tasks.
What will you be doing:
- Co-ordinate and issue appropriate safety documentation to suppliers, contractors such as Permit to Work, and to participate and lead the Safety forum with the Hygiene and process manager.
- Supervise suppliers and contractors on site and ensure that they follow safe working procedures at all times.
- Ensure the appropriate and efficient deployment of staff at all times.
- Manage the departmental absence including holiday booking and attendance recording.
- Monitor and maintain stocks of chemicals etc and supervise the receipt of chemical and other deliveries, treat as required and store for appropriate usage, record data on logs and into SAP.
- Supervise and/or perform plant remedial works. E.g., jetting, confined space cleaning of vessels, bund/sump clearances via vacuum tanker and routine changeover of plant equipment.
- Supervise and/or facilitate bulk chemical transfers via road tankers to various vessels across site.
- Maintain the plant area in a clean and tidy state.
- Train and develop the Production Services Attendants
What are we looking for
- A hands-on worker who actively engages in physical tasks within a manufacturing environment.
- Good team worker and effective communicator
- Positive attitude and commitment to continuous improvement
Training – We will support you by providing the tools to identify and pursue your own personal development plan, having dedicated time to discuss performance, development, and career progression. Full training will be provided whether that’s learning on the job, community volunteering experiences, mentoring, secondments or formal learning like apprenticeship and leadership programmes. We want you to achieve you full potential!
What can Tate & Lyle offer you
Our Reward philosophy at ASR Group is through merit-based pay which enables us to recognize your personal contribution and encourages your development and advancement.
We are proud of the suite of benefits we offer and there’s more to share with you as you go through our recruitment process!
- 26 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
- 9.2% Company Contributed Pension Scheme (when you contribute a minimum of 3%)
- 3 Volunteering/ Charity Days per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
At Tate & Lyle Sugars, our goal is to be the most admired sweetener Company.
Service Excellence- Be the industry's Gold Standard by a rentless focus on reliability, providing products with superioir quality and excellent customer services. Efficiency and Sustainability- Elliminate ineficiency to be a sustainable, low cost producer and to generate fuel for reinvestment. Value-Add: create strategic advantage and enhanced profitability through value-added products and services. The foundation of our values is Talent and Culture as we aim to build, retaind and motivate a winning team.
