Job Title: Night Shift Team Lead – Enzyme Manufacturing Plant
Location: Nantgarw, Cardiff
Salary: Competitive salary + 30% night shift allowance + bonus + substantial benefits
Position: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 18:00 – 6:00 (4 x 12 hour night shifts, During training period – hours will be 4 x 12 hr day shift – 4 on / 4 off rolling week)
Closing Date: 09:00 hrs Monday, 18 October 2021
Do you want to work in our new, state-of-the-art enzyme manufacturing facility and lead our talented team to deliver operational excellence? Do you want the opportunity to be part of a long-established, successful company? Then look no further and work with us……no one can do what we do.
Biocatalysts develop and manufacture speciality enzymes from small to large scale quantities for a variety of industries such as food, flavor, fragrance, life science, pharma and fine chemicals. We are the only company offering a rapid, low-cost speciality enzyme service from discovery phase through to global shipment of regulatory compliant enzymes.
About the role:
Due to our on-going commitment to expanding our manufacturing capabilities within our fermentation plant, we have an opportunity for a Night Shift Team Lead Process who will supervise operational and manufacturing activities within our enzyme manufacturing plant.
Key Duties:
- Preparing and running of fermentation processes up to 8,000L scale defined by SOPs and production records
- Monitoring of 500L fermentations, including methanol additions defined by SOPs and production records
- Operation of some 500L processes defined by SOPs and production records
- Trouble shooting and solving manufacturing process problems
- Carry out routine cleaning and maintenance on plant equipment to minimise unplanned downtime
- Supervise a team of Technicians safely and effectively, in line with process and schedule requirements
- Working with your team on continuous improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives
- Be conversant with and adopt the procedures stated in the Quality, Environmental Management System (QEMS) Manual and its supporting documents
- Carry out the responsibilities stated in the Managing Director’s Health & Safety Policy
About you:
5 GCSEs A-C grade including English and Maths or equivalent or NVQ (L3) in Process Operations or Cert. in Process Technology (L3) is essential along with experience in safely operating and maintaining equipment such as fermenters, centrifuges, tanks, pumps and filters.
If you are someone who is practical, ‘hands on’ with a flexible, ‘can-do’ attitude, experience of supervising a small team and driven to get things to the highest quality, please send your CV through today.
You need to know how to:
- Operate effectively, efficiently, and safely all plant/equipment needed in production of speciality enzyme
- Supervision of Process Technicians in line with plant and scheduling requirements
- Food Safety, HACCP and GMP
- FLT operator
- Training in the awareness and relevance of their individual activities in contributing to food safety, emphasising the importance of effective communication
Benefits:
- Analytical thinking
- High quality work on time
- Results driven
- Decision making and knowledge
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Leadership and management
Please click on the APPLY button to be redirected to the careers page to complete your application.
Candidates with experience of; Process Operator, Production Operative, Production Coordinator, Process Technician, Technical Engineer, Production Process Engineer, Production Process Coordinator, Production Support may also be considered for this role.
