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It’s our mission to provide the most advanced and highest quality manufacturing and production facilities in the UK. With an ambitious growth plan, enabled by our industry-leading international experience and the most innovative, sustainable technologies, we bring a team of industry professionals who will grow with the business and a commitment to developing sites with a rich heritage of their own.
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Work Group Leader - Tissue
Shotton Mill, Deeside
What you'll do:
- Responsible for their area shift teams health and safety, environmental, technical, operational, & HR related issues.
- Responsible for their shift teams operational performance, ensuring that output, technical specifications and quality standards are maintained to agreed Production standards as outlined.
- Support in leading the shift team as a Role Model and Change Agent instilling and developing the EREN culture for Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement methodologies.
- Leading, coaching and mentoring their shift team in Continuous Improvement and 5S methodology and implementation practices.
- Accountable for ensuring their shift team understands, follows and adheres to the performance KPI’s & Continuous Improvement targets in place, are understood, followed and achieved by all.
- Responsible for helping maintenance team in their shift for an effective maintenance process and starting-up the machines and equipment again efficiently after the planned/unplanned maintenance activities.
- Responsible for the main communication with reel warehouse teams for a continuous flow and resolution of the issues until the products arrives to the warehouse.
- Leading their shift team through quality standards ensuring products are delivered on time and to the required customer specification as specified.
- Accountable for the effective shift leadership across their shift, ensuring that the appropriate behaviours aligned to Shotton Mill’s values and culture, are modelled and embedded.
- Accountable for cultivating a dynamic operational environment ensuring that the shift team performs to the highest standards at all times.
- Accountable for the shift and their adherence to company policies and procedures is understood and followed at all times.
What you'll bring:
- Leadership qualification and proven experience of a technical role within paper making or a manufacturing environment is essential.
- Minimum 3 years’ previous experience working as a leader of people within a manufacturing environment or ideally within a containerboard/papermaking business.
- Ability to communicate clearly, persuasively and network at all levels.
- Highly motivated, agile, results driven with the ability to problem solve are essential.
- Previous experience/understanding of World Class Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement methodologies would be advantageous.
- Ability to work under pressure, with a logical, systematic manner.
- Leadership skills with a strong emphasis on coaching and mentoring a team is essential.
- Experience of working in a 24/7 continuous manufacturing environment.
Why join us?
TM1 Stock Preparation Mechanical Engineer
What you'll do:
- With a key focus of front-line maintenance, assisting in the coordination and action of the engineering department daily and weekly prioritisation, scheduling and preparation of workload.
- Focus on reliability and preventative maintenance to ensure problems are resolved effectively and efficiently.
- Responsible for the day-to-day mechanical maintenance activities associated with the Tissue TM1 Stock Preparation and Stock Approach.
- Provide mechanical support to the ancillary plant and equipment necessary for the paper machine to function reliability, including the WTP, CHP and the site wide workshops.
- Interact and support the TM1 production teams, ensuring a partnering working relationship to assist in the proactive approach of identifying problems and providing support where required.
- Provide effective and efficient response to un-planned maintenance activities, ensuring minimal effect on production, whilst ensuring safety and environmental release are a priority.
- Ensuring efficient resolution to all immediate and developing problems.
- Collaboration with Planners and managers to provide technical direction to engineering teams allocated to work within the TM1 area.
- Deliver safe, efficient and compliant services within and outside the workshop in line with Shotton Mills polices and standards and wider business requirements.
- Ensure agreed operational targets are achieved whilst considering asset availability, reliability and costs.
What you'll bring:
- HNC in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience in relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstratable experience.
- Experience in working collaboratively in multi-discipline teams to deliver activities on a range of product types.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Highly motivated, agile and results driven with the ability to problem solve.
- Excellent organisational skills, capable of efficiently prioritising work and ensuring smooth workflow.
- Attention to detail and the ability to use own initiative.
Why join us?
- Competitive compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package.
- Career growth: Advance your career with opportunities for professional development.
- Collaborative culture: Work alongside talented individuals in a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Impactful work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference.
Sourcing Buyer
Shotton Mill, Deeside
What you'll do:
- Supporting the team by following purchasing processes and procedures to support business objectives and targets.
- Developing and shaping sourcing operations in order to develop and design cost effective contracts and services aligned to costs and requirements.
- Supplier development and cost optimisation on site, together with leading negotiation and drafting contracts aligned with business requisites.
- Reporting, Reviewing and negotiating competitive rates on a range of products and services within the sourcing area.
- Developing and managing sourcing processes and tools for key stakeholders within the Shotton Mill team.
- Working within budgetary processes with Finance and Stakeholders to develop cost optimisation and quality services.
- Working with stores, engineering and other functions across the business to provide sourcing support within all areas.
- Supporting implementation and development of SAP ensuring correct procedures are followed.
- Developing strong teamwork across the business to ensure operations are working effectively in accordance with Eren Group procurement rules and aligned to contract agreements in place.
- Conduct supplier reviews to ensure contracts and services, along with costs, are relevant and competitive.
What you'll bring:
- Ideally CIPS qualified or working towards the qualification or equivalent experience.
- Experience within a manufacturing environment is required. A strong understanding of
- Engineering or an Engineering background is advantageous.
- Previous experience within recycled paper manufacturing is advantageous.
- Strong understanding and previous experience in Contract Management.
- Strong understanding of business and commercial acumen within a focused purchasing team.
- Previous experience of reducing costs whilst maintaining customer service is essential.
- You will be motivated, dynamic and have the ability to challenge the status quo in order to support cost analysis.
- The ability to create proposals to improve all aspects of the service within a manufacturing and project environment.
- Proven ability to engage senior decision makers, whilst building and developing long-term relationships.
- Excellent problem-solving skills in order to work on a range of purchasing projects., both independently and as part of a team.
- Highly driven and proactive to develop and grow within the business.
- Ability to work with site wide teams and challenge the current processes and systems.
- Preferred experience of working with SAP, Excel, Databases, Sage and other purchasing platforms in order to create processes and initiatives to drive business performance and improvements.
- Confident written and verbal communication skills.
- Turkish language skills are desirable but not essential.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications
- Attention to detail and data entry skills.
Why join us?
- Competitive compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package.
- Career growth: Advance your career with opportunities for professional development.
- Collaborative culture: Work alongside talented individuals in a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Impactful work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference.
Development
Eren is looking for skilled and engaged individuals who want to develop and grow their skills. Teamwork is fundamental in all we do. We want to build diverse teams who want to continue to develop and grow their skills to support the business, to deliver results through advanced lean practices and state of the art assets. The current development is just phase one of an ambitious growth plan in the UK.
Apprentices/trainee
As an Engineering Apprentice at Shotton Mill, you will gain technical, hands-on skill with our most experienced engineers on site, many of whom started as apprentices themselves. You will gain workplace experience and knowledge whilst gaining your qualifications and attending college. As the repurposing project gets underway, you will work alongside our engineers in doing the work to ensure the project is successful. You will be encouraged and guided with your learning, with ample support on site to aid with your development.
Caring community
Our local recycling and energy generation initiatives not only enhance our efficiency, but also benefit our local communities.
We are passionate in our commitment to rejuvenating communities that each have a rich heritage of their own.
This understanding allows us to align the needs and ambitions of communities around our sites with those of the company — in a virtuous circle that benefits all.
Policies
It is Shotton Mill Limited’s policy to recruit employees to meet the developing needs of the organisation using professional, thorough, and fair procedures. To recruit people who are, in its opinion, best qualified to fill its requirements having regard to company standards and the potential value of candidates to the company. We endeavour to promote internal applicants wherever possible and give existing employees every opportunity for career development and ensure the best person for each vacancy regardless of sex, race, creed, age, disability, marital status and political beliefs.