Maintenance Supervisor in London

ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England and Portugal. ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize. The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino, C&H, Redpath, Tate & Lyle, Lyle’s and Sidul.

Overview: Work with the Packaging Maintenance Team Manager to optimise plant performance and maintenance activities by providing effective management for a team of Maintenance Technicians and a broad range of contract staff where necessary. This will be within our Packing area of the factory.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ensure the role holder, their team and contractors under their responsibility comply with all SHEQ policies and procedures.
• Manage the area team of Maintenance Technicians, ensuring that safety, quality and throughput standards and targets are achieved.
• Work closely with Packaging Team Managers and other senior engineers ensuring the optimum prioritisation of activities to ensure plant operational and maintenance needs are met.
• Plan, schedule and agree daily/weekly workloads with the Packaging Maintenance Team Manager, incorporating preventative, planned and reactive activities.
• Manage all planned and reactive E/I and mechanical maintenance activities including cleaning, optimising available resources and contractors to ensure expedient, high quality repairs and servicing.
• Ensure regular and consistent communication to teams and individuals through meetings and briefing sessions.
• Work with their team to initiate and deliver CI and other projects to improve plant reliability.
• Provide cost estimates for improvement projects and generate capital requests for these projects managing all costs when authorised.
• Participate in RCM and RCA studies of TLS plant to derive and sustain optimum maintenance regimes.
• Administer and review SAP maintenance system for budgeting, historical trend & reliability analysis.
• Plan and implement maintenance procedures, engineering Standards/Specifications, Risk assessments, Method statements and other SHEEQ systems.

Essential Work Experiences:

• Relevant experience maintenance within an automated continuous process environment.
• Multi-skilled across a range of engineering trades.
• Experience of Predictive/Preventative maintenance techniques and regimes.
• Experience of leading and performance managing small teams.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety & environmental systems & procedures.

Education Requirements:

• Preferably an HNC/ NVQ 4 in an engineering discipline or equivalent.
• Strong team member with demonstrable leadership and people management skills.
• Proven ability for activity planning and coordination.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written to liaise with engineering team and within the operational department.
• Excellent organisational and problem solving skills.
• Self motivated with desire for continual personal development.

At Tate & Lyle Sugars, our goal is to be the most admired sweetener Company. Service Excellence - Be the industry's Gold Standard by a relentless focus on reliability, providing products with superior quality and excellent customer services. Efficiency and Sustainability - Eliminate inefficiency to be a sustainable, low cost producer and to generate fuel for reinvestment. Value-Add - create strategic advantage and enhanced profitability through value-added products and services. The foundation of our values is Talent and Culture as we aim to build, retain and motivate a winning team.