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About the Role

The Area Manager – Process, Utilities & Warehouse is responsible for leading safe, compliant, and efficient operations across syrup processing, utilities, and warehousing. This role provides strong leadership to operational teams, ensuring robust process control, plant performance optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety, quality, cost, and service.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of Safety, Hygiene, Environment, and Quality (SHEQ) across Process, Utilities, and Warehouse operations, ensuring compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver weekly production plans through effective management of syrup processing, blending, and Lyle’s Syrup manufacture.
• Own process performance and capability across syrup manufacturing and utility operations, identifying losses and implementing improvement plans.
• Establish and maintain effective process control standards to ensure consistent product quality and operational performance.
• Ensure robust management of food safety systems, Critical Control Points (CCPs), and prerequisite programs.
• Maintain high standards of GMP, housekeeping, and operational discipline.
• Monitor and improve key operational KPIs including attainment, product quality, yield, sugar loss, inventory accuracy, service levels, water consumption, utility reliability, and energy performance.
• Develop departmental measures to manage operations and improve performance in product quality, sugar loss, inventory accuracy, service levels, energy performance, and cost control.
• Provide comprehensive operational updates into the site Tier meeting structure.
• Collaborate with Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, and Materials Management teams.
• Own the departmental improvement roadmap and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support maintenance planning and execution to maximize reliability and availability of process and utility assets.
• Identify and deliver improvement projects that enhance safety, quality, service, compliance, and operational efficiency.
• Own departmental budgets and forecasts, ensuring effective control of labor, utilities, inventory, and operational expenditure.
• Lead, coach, and develop Process Operators, Warehouse Coordinators, FLT Drivers, and Process Supervisors.

Requirements

• Experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment is essential.
• Experience managing process operations, utilities, and/or continuous manufacturing environments.
• Proven delivery of continuous improvement and process optimization initiatives.
• Exposure to a unionized workforce is desirable.
• Strong understanding of process performance, yield management, utility performance, and product quality control.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing KPIs, inventory management, throughput, waste, service levels, and labor utilization.

Location

• Plaistow Wharf, London

Education Level

• Degree in Engineering or a relevant technical discipline or equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Preferred Six Sigma Belt Yellow or Green belt certification.

About the Company

• The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar.
• The companies produce a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products.
• Across North America, ASR Group® companies operate five sugar refineries, located in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico.
• In Europe, ASR Group® companies operate sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy.
• The companies also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills in Mexico and Belize.
• The ASR Group® portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworths®.
• ASR Group® companies also produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware and foodservice product made from plant fibers, including sugarcane.
• 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.