Chemical Operator

**Company Overview**:
Vertellus is a dynamic global organization with more than a century of leadership in manufacturing health, agriculture, and performance chemicals. Our company is also a leading provider in the world of specialty chemicals for agriculture, nutrition, pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, medical, personal care, plastics, coatings, and many other industrial markets. Our products are in the things you use every day - toothpaste, deodorants, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, detergents, plastics, adhesives, inks, tires, and more. Our culture is built on mutual trust and respect for all employees to focus on providing the best products and solutions to our customers.
At Vertellus, we hold ourselves and each other Accountable for Delivering Results with a Bias for Action while always acting with the utmost integrity, this is truly what it means to be a Vertellus employee. We take great pride in displaying our Core Values through our work and our teams.

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Job Summary: *
To control, monitor and adjust equipment and processes to meet production targets. To report and investigate deviations from normal operating conditions, dealing with basic process upsets

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Responsibilities: *
**Compliance**:
**Responsibilities of all employees under COMAH**:

- To understand the Major Accident Prevention Policy / Plan (MAPP) and Safety and Environment Management Systems.
- To comply with company Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures and arrangements.
- Where applicable, to inspect before use, and use correctly, the plant equipment, machinery and personal protective equipment provided, and take corrective action within your competency level and report to line management any defects identified.
- To report all Health, Safety and Environmental accidents, incidents and near misses promptly.
- To act in a safe and responsible manner at all times.
- Not to use any new equipment, or carry out any modification or change of process or system of work, without first ensuring that adequate assessment and authorization has been carried out through the Management of Change procedure.
- Where appropriate, to only undertake work for which you have been appropriately trained.
- In the event of an abnormal situation or emergency, to carry out the necessary actions to ensure your own safety and that of others, in accordance with the site Emergency Procedures, and to be available to be part of the Emergency Response Team in line with your training, specialist skills and Departmental expertise.
- Where necessary, stop processes safely where HSE is critically compromised.
**Role specific**:

- Participate in Process Hazard Assessments studies (eg HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA studies)
- Participate in risk assessments and incident root cause investigations
- Contribute to writing Standard Operating Procedures.
- Comply with electrical and fire safety procedures
- Comply with manual handling procedures
**Technical**:

- Prepare to start up, start up, monitor and maintain, handover and complete / shutdown a process
- Maintain product quality
- Prepare process materials according to instructions
- Manage materials into and between production stages
- Separate and dispose of by-products and waste as appropriate
- Clean and prepare items of plant and equipment
- Prepare work areas for maintenance
- Maintain the condition of engineering assets report equipment and materials defects to supervision.
- To carry out analytical testing to ensure product integrity as and when required
- Complete all documentation to the required standard
- Maintain area housekeeping and 5S status
- Update operations status via Tier 1 Board & permit status via Permit Board.
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Business Improvement: *
- Active participation in continuous improvement and other lean manufacturing initiatives
- Participation in problem solving
- To take responsibility for own learning and development in the spirit of continuous improvement of both self and the business - to target full flexibility and versatility to be able to work across all teams and processes.
- To assist in the training, mentoring and assessment of other team members
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Qualifications/Desired Skills: *
**Education & Qualifications**:

- English (level 2 basic skills min)
- Math (level 2 basic skills min)
- ICT (level 2 basic skills min)
- Cogent Gold Standard in Chemical Process Operations or similar
**Experience: (industry and job specific)**
- Minimum of 2 years chemical operations experience in chemical manufacturing or enrolled in recognized apprentice scheme for process operations.
**Language**:

- Fluent English
**Line Management Responsibility**:

- No
**Budget Responsibility**:

- No
**Vertellus offers competitive total compensation packages, including benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k), disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, paid time off, and paid holidays.**
**_Vertellus is a global Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive c