Senior Warehouse Blending and Packing Supervisor
Circa £39,000.00 per annum ( depending on experience)
Responsibilities
As a key part of the Purchasing and Supply Chain team of BYK Widnes, the role reports to the Purchasing and Supply Chain Officer – Planner and Super User. Working integrally with other members of the Purchasing and Supply Chain team, the role is responsible for the efficient and effective enactment of the department elements at Widnes site, delivering performance to agreed procedures and standards, suggesting and implementing improvements as necessary to address the changing nature of the business and its environment. This role is a hands on role.
Living the ALTANA values of Openness, Trust, Appreciation and Empowerment to Act every day.
Key Accountabilities
- Controls and executes tasks provides support for other tasks within Widnes site Warehouse operations.
- Supportsoverall operating excellence by controlling cost, operating efficiency and working to department service levels.
- Effective Implementation of site Warehouse processes.
- Develop the knowledge, skills and effectiveness of the warehouse team working collectively and as an individual member.
- Establishing positive relations with internal stakeholders at all levels.
- Ensure the smooth operation of the warehouse
- Provide and communicate Safety and Environment Statistics
- Quality Conformance in all activities - weight, appearance, etc.
- Maximise Equipment Utilisation
- Achieving targeted packing and blending schedules set out in the resource plan for the area
- Accurate plant and SAP records
- Housekeeping standards – 5S/Area audits.
We invite you to get to know us better and to discover your own personal special side of life. Please send us your application, preferably via our job market www.altana.jobs. For further information, please contact:
Marilyn Sedman, HR Advisor, BYK Additives Ltd. Tel +44 (0) 151 495 9982.
For further information on the company, visit our website at www.byk.com
Requirements
Required / Essential Qualifications, Experience and Attributes
- Experience in warehouse operation and packing.
- Strong interpersonal skills, enthusiasm and ambition to be part of a successful team.
- Results-focused.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Experience of using SAP
- A flexible approach to work in line with business requirements
- Excellent communication skills including fluency in English (both written and oral)
- FLT counter balance and High Reach Truck license
Desirable qualifications and experience
- Excellence in the use of MS office products
- Experience in working in an organisation, spanning multiple geographies and cultures
Warehouse Elements
- Effective execution of the resource plan for the warehouse function detailing reasons for deviations.
- Ensure deliverables for all warehouse area KPIs
- SAP Super user warehouse area.
- Expert in SAP Workflows and SOPs for the area and ensure conformance of warehouse operators.
- Review daily SAP warehouse monitor and ensure all issues/errors are delt with in a timely manner.
- Participate in layer auditing of warehouse conformance to operation standards and safety
- Operate appropriate packaging/blending/tanker loading equipment in a safe and efficient manner.
- Carry out associated warehousing duties including the loading and unloading of vehicles
- Control packaging equipment/blending equipment working as an individual or as a member of a team.
- Produce timely and accurate data entry on both computer and in manual, written logs.
- Assist monthly stock checks/count for all warehouses inclusive of all WDWM products, Blending/Production raw materials and packaging.
- Maintain a high level of housekeeping standards at all times using 5S principles.
- Flexible in the use of skills and competencies on their own and other plant operations.
- Carry out minor maintenance, fault diagnosis, and to provide assistance to tradesmen.
- Liaise with tradesmen, QC, Process Technologist, logistics, etc.
- Undertake tasks outside main area of skill and competence under TEST principles.
- Operate FLT counter balance and High Reach Truck within site policies and procedures
(inclusive of FLT counter balance and High Reach Truck daily checks and report problems)
- Apply site and local SHE procedures and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Apply safety health and environment rules, procedures and legislation
- Encourage and support compliance with safety health and environment rules procedures and legislation amongst contractors and drivers.
- Apply risk assessments and other safety assessments in advance of routine and non-routine activities.
- Understand departmental SHE issues and any legal requirements relating to the warehouse function
- Operate within the site Permit to work system at all times.
- Use of correct PPE for tasks at all times.
- Apply correct disposal of waste using recycling systems where appropriate.
Our Plus
In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.
BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages. They include the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, the participation in site bonus scheme and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement as well as excellent development opportunities.
Job number:
AW00299
Legal entity:
BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)
Location:
Widnes Cheshire
About us
We are ALTANA: one group of companies – four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. Global leader in specialty chemicals with over 6,700 employees, sales of around 2.7 billion euros, and myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Would you like to enrich your life with this decisive plus?
BYK, as part of the ALTANA Group, is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. Our innovative BYK additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behaviour of materials, and properties such as UV-and light stability or flame retardancy. BYK has a global network of subsidiaries and employs a workforce of more than 2,500 people worldwide.
BYK Additives Limited based in Widnes is a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, supplying additives to the coatings, consumer care, oil field and other specialty markets. The site has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923 and has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA AG, a privately owned speciality chemicals company, since 2013.
ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
