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Are you someone who is passionate about delivering process improvements and have an interest in sustainability and energy?

At Saint-Gobain Formula we're looking for a Process Engineer who is driven, ambitious, innovative, and curious, willing to share and utilise your experience and knowledge in our quest to continually improve our Newark operation and drive our site forward. Ours is a broad remit with a commitment first to safety, sustainability, and quality. With our output measured in millions of square meters and thousands of tonnes, we will also deliver improvements in the traditional plant metrics of availability, yield, and speed. We encourage out-of-the-box thinking, we want to identify and implement the best available technology, and we encourage knowledge sharing and building relationships with like-minded people in our businesses across the globe to achieve this.

Our Formula site in Newark Formula is a leading supplier of high-performance industrial plasters 'Making the world a better home' - Saint-Gobain's purpose, we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenges faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable place to live and have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050!

This is a days-based role working Monday - Friday.

What we're looking for:

Educated to Degree level in Chemical Engineering or a similar science/engineering discipline
Demonstrated experience working as a Process Engineer in a comparable manufacturing environment
Excellent communication skills at all levels within an organisation, with the ability to influence
Proven experience in managing and delivering improvement projects
Knowledge and understanding of WCM and CI tools and methodologies
The ability to organise and prioritise your workload to meet the needs of the businessWhat you will be doing:

Champions health and safety standards, behaviours, and improvements.
Quickly develop into a key member of a performance team tasked with delivering plant improvement projects to plan and budget.
Production data collection and analysis to identify opportunities for improvements across the workshop KPI's including energy efficiency, capacity, yield, and availability.
Use of problem-solving tools within the team to determine the root cause of plant issues and to put effective and sustainable countermeasures in place.
Effective investigations into quality defects to prevent reoccurrence.Are Formula and Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments. We'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting. But we do promise to listen

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