The ALTANA Group develops and manufactures high-quality, innovative specialty chemical products. With us, you can help shape many important details of the world of the future. Our four divisions BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA have set worldwide standards in their markets. Our innovative products enable companies to develop technologies of the future today, technologies that make life easier, safer, and more comfortable. With sales of around 2.7 billion euros, we are one of the world‘s most innovative, fastest-growing, and most profitable chemical companies. We currently employ more than 6,700 people who have good ideas for the world of the future. Discover your decisive plus for your future. Bringing you many advantages.

BYK Additives Limited based in Widnes is a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, supplying additives to the coatings, consumer care, oil field and other specialty markets. The site has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923 and has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA AG, a privately owned speciality chemicals company, since 2013.

Site Process Operator x 2

Your task structure

Reporting to the Laponite Plant Manager, the role exists to ensure the control of plant operations in a safe and efficient manner, generating product in accordance with business requirements complying with relevant legislation and quality assurance standards.

Key responsibilities include (but not limited to)

• To control and operate plant operations in a safe and efficient manner.
• To ensure that site and local SHE procedures are properly applied and identify opportunities for improvement.
• To encourage compliance with safety health and environment rules, procedures and legislation amongst contractors and drivers
• To undertake FLT daily checks and report problems
• To drive FLT counterbalance (and FEL where appropriate) within site policies and procedures
• To ensure correct PPE is worn at all times.
• To ensure correct disposal of waste using recycling systems where appropriate.
• To report accidents, incidents and near misses promptly using ETQ reporting tool and assist with investigation where appropriate.
• To monitor processes via routine walkrounds and SCADA systems and identify problems and troubleshoot plant processes.
• To be fully flexible in the use of skills and competencies on own and other plant operations across the site.
• To be proactive in the control of process plant, working individually or as part of a team, including the taking of corrective actions in order to maintain the operation to the required standards.
• To carry out in process testing to ensure product quality meets set conformance targets.
• To ensure samples are booked into the QC area of the Technical Services building.
• Raise maintenance work orders for plant breakdowns, planned or safety related tasks.
• To ensure timely and accurate data entry on both computer and in manual, written logs with appropriate interpretation of information.
• To liaise with tradesmen, QC, process engineer, logistics, etc… where necessary.
• To control and log all stock including the ordering of raw materials where appropriate.
• To ensure excellent housekeeping standards for the plant areas are achieved and maintained.
• To undertake tasks outside main area of skill and competence under TEST principles.

Key Performance Indicators

• EHS statistics including accidents, incidents, audits, procedures, permit to work reviewing and 5S auditing.
• Quality conformance including in process and finished goods, packaging standards, etc.
• Plant utilisation in line with plan.
• Customer service performance, i.e. fulfilling production schedule.
• Control and presentation of plant information.
• Housekeeping standards.

Your recipe for success

Personal Attributes/Technical Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate achievements in:

• Good team-working and communication skills
• Excellent operational knowledge in his/her plant area of responsibility.
• Good understanding of site polices, practices and legislative requirements.
• Ability to proactively control and operate the process plants in his/her plant area of responsibility.
• Flexible approach with a capacity to work well and maintain performance levels under pressure.

Desirable Experience

• Site Plant operations
• Forklift Truck Licence

Your spectrum of advantages

In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction. BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages. They include the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, the Participation in site bonus scheme and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement as well as excellent development opportunities.

We invite you to get to know us better and to discover your own personal special side of life. Please send us your application, preferably via our job market www.altana.jobs. For further information, please contact:

Marilyn Sedman, HR Advisor, BYK Additives Ltd., Tel +44 (0) 151 495 9982.

For further information on the company, visit our website at www.byk.com

ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.