About this role
Purpose of the Job
Design, optimize, monitor, and improve manufacturing processes to ensure safe, efficient, costeffective, and quality production operations.
Key Performance Areas:
- Monitor and analyse process performance and identify opportunities to improve yield,throughput, efficiency and product quality.
- Lead process improvement initiatives to improve productivity, reduce costs, minimise wasteand support operational excellence.
- Troubleshoot plant, process, product quality and process safety issues, lead investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Track and improve OEE performance across manufacturing assets.
- Lead Process Safety Management (PSM) activities, including HAZOPs, PHAs, MOCs,
- PSSRs, risk assessments and process safety action management.
- Ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety and quality standards.
- Participate in plant start-ups, shutdowns, commissioning, optimisation of new equipment and process modifications.
- Collaborate with the maintenance team to improve equipment performance, analyse recurring failures and develop preventive maintenance strategies.
- Lead or support capital projects and plant modifications, including management of schedules, costs and technical deliverables.
- Prepare and maintain process designs, mass balances, PFDs, P&IDs, SOPs, process parameters and engineering documentation.
- Conduct technical evaluations of equipment, technologies and process improvements.
- Prepare technical reports and process performance reviews.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide technical guidance and support to operations.
- Support strategic business initiatives and continuous improvement programmes.
Experience and Qualifications Required
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent engineering qualification.
- Minimum 5-7 years' experience in a chemical manufacturing or process plant environment.
Knowledge Requirements
- Chemical manufacturing and batch processing operations.
- Process control principles and instrumentation.
- Heat transfer, fluid flow, and mass balance calculations.
- Process safety management (PSM), HAZOP, Risk Assessments, and MOC processes.
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies.
- Quality systems and statistical process control (SPC).
- Environmental, health, and safety regulations applicable to chemical manufacturing.
- SAP systems
- Continuous Improvement principles.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Problem-solving
- Analytical thinking.
- Project management.
- Technical report writing.
- Communication and teamwork.
- Continuous improvement mindset