About The Role
We are looking for a Graduate Process Engineer to work within our Production Team starting September 2025. Your role as a Graduate Process Engineer will be to provide knowledgeable technical resource to assist work teams on daily operations & process issues and support longer term plant performance, defining and using performance measurements to increase plant asset utilisation and eliminate unplanned events.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide engineering guidance for safe & reliable operation to the Production Team and identify improvement opportunities through customer feedback and through programs driven by the business.
* Coordinate, coach and actively promote the plant safety & quality programs, required to achieve business goals and customer satisfaction.
* Provide technical support to the operations team to root cause daily plant issues and upsets.
* Utilise existing and develop new measurement tools to track and report performance using performance indicators for production yields, raw material conversion, resource utilisation and asset utilisation.
* Work with Production Technicians, network with other engineers on site and other wider business partners to leverage knowledge on plant operations.
* Translate business needs relating to production into production optimisation goals.
* Provide operating guidance to be applied in procedures and process operating discipline and identify improvement opportunities through customer feedback and through programs driven by the business.
* Develop solutions to deliver safe, high quality, reliable and operable improvements.
Additional Information
* Support the guidance for the operational decisions necessary to deliver plant performance targets.
* Participate in incident investigations in accordance with Vivergo Incident Investigation standard and determine the root causes to avoid recurrence.
* Participate in the area Management of Change (MoC) programme.
* Investigate operational deviations following appropriate techniques and lead corrective actions to avoid future repeats.
Salary: Starting salary £35,000 Working Hours: Monday-Friday 37.5 hours per week Location: Saltend Chemicals Park, Hull Closing Date: 20th April 2025 with interview dates to be confirmed.
About You
Knowledge skills and experience required
The successful candidate will be educated to a MEng (preferred) or BEng Chemical Engineering degree level qualification with a minimum 2:1 predicted degree result. You will have either Industrial and/or Summer Placement experience in a relevant industry which is preferred but not required. Ideally, you will have an understanding of engineering drawings and manufacturing processes and understand management of change processes. Knowledge of statistical analysis tools is required.
Personal attributes
We are looking for someone who is self-driven, results orientated with a positive outlook and a clear focus on safety, high quality, and commercial success for Vivergo. A natural forward planner who critically assesses their own performance and the performance of the team, maintains high personal standards and is able to demonstrate fairness in dealing with people. The ability to influence through leadership and personal example is key, along with the ability to problem solve and use your own initiative.
About Us
Vivergo Fuels operates on the Saltend Chemicals complex in Hull. We are part of the AB Sugar division within ABF (Associated British Foods). ABF is a FTSE 10 group that operates in 53 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia.
What do we do?
In simple terms we convert locally sourced feed wheat into both bioethanol, a more environmentally friendly transport fuel, and a highly nutritious animal feed for the dairy industry.
We are passionate about what we do and proud to say the bioethanol we produce helps to reduce transport carbon emissions in the UK.
Safety comes first at Vivergo Fuels, but equally important is how we work; our people and culture make us who we are.
Our Benefits
Working with us offers a great benefits package that encompasses options such as:
* Matching pension scheme up to 10%
* Life Assurance Income Protection Cycle to work scheme
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Private medical options
* On site free staff parking.
We also recognise that whilst work is a big part of who we are, our people have other roles to fill in their lives. Enabling our team to balance work and home life is important to us. #J-18808-Ljbffr