About the Role
The Process Manager role focuses on Process, Utilities & Warehouse, leading safe, compliant, and efficient operations. This position offers opportunities to gain exposure to Warehouse & Utilities, develop strong leadership skills, ensure robust process control, optimize plant performance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of Safety, Hygiene, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) across Process, Utilities and Warehouse operations.
- Ensure 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 process capability across syrup manufacturing and utility operations.
- Establish and maintain effective process control standards.
- Ensure robust management of food safety systems, Critical Control Points (CCPs), prerequisite programmes and operational controls.
- 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.
- 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 maximise 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 labour, 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.
- Leadership experience.
- Proven delivery of continuous improvement and process optimisation initiatives.
- 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 labour utilisation.
Skills
- Process control
- Plant performance optimization
- Continuous improvement
- Safety management
- Hygiene management
- Environmental management
- Quality management
- Legionella management
- Water treatment
- Pressure systems management
- Contractor control
- Syrup processing
- Blending
- Lyle’s Syrup manufacture
- Process capability analysis
- Yield management
- Food safety systems management
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Housekeeping
- Operational discipline
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI) monitoring
- Inventory management
- Service level management
- Water consumption monitoring
- Utility reliability management
- Energy performance monitoring
- Cost control
- Risk assessment
- Recovery planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Waste reduction
- Maintenance planning support
- Asset reliability
- Budget management
- Forecast management
- Team leadership
- Coaching
- Talent development
- Succession planning
- Performance management
Location
- Plaistow Wharf, London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced Process Manager
- Leadership experience
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.
