Piping & Fabrication Engineer

ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal.  ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize.  The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s® and Sidul®.

What will you be doing?

As a Piping & Fabrication Engineer you will come with practical experience and knowledge of welding, pipe fitting, fabrication, scaffolding and working with insulation contractors. You will be supporting our Fabrication & Piping Supervisor with weekly plans, identifying skills required for onsite works and estimating time frames to minimise melt stops and plant downtime.

This is not a hands on position, we are looking for a candidate who will provide the interface between contractors, production and maintenance personnel, write risk assessments, permits to work, obtain quotes for additional work, carry out audits and ensure all piping and fabrications work are carried out to the required high health and safety standards as well as focusing efforts on ensuring installations produce improvements and longevity against erosion, corrosion and chemical attack.

Hours of Work - Monday to Friday – 7am – 3pm

Location – Thames Refinery (East London)

What are we looking for?

• Extensive practical experience of plant maintenance, piping and fabrication within an automated continuous process environment.
• Evidence of training on piping standards and material types, weld coding and practices.
• Experience of planning and organizing engineering tasks often involving contractor resources.
• Experience of managing health and safety requirements for contractors.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis techniques relating to pipe work failures.
• Demonstrated planning skills, problem solving and a methodical approach.
• Proven organisation skills with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exposure to Financial / budgetary management.
• Compilation of scopes of work for contractors
• Champion all Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental targets

Training – We will support you by providing the tools to identify and pursue your own personal development plan, having dedicated time to discuss performance, development, and career progression. Full training will be provided whether that’s learning on the job, or supporting off-site courses. We want you to achieve your full potential!

What can Tate & Lyle offer you

Our Reward philosophy at ASR Group is through merit-based pay which enables us to recognize your personal contribution and encourages your development and advancement.

We are proud of the suite of benefits we offer and there’s more to share with you as you go through our recruitment process!

• 26 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
• 9% Company Contributed Pension Scheme (when you contribute a minimum of 3%)
• 3 Volunteering/ Charity Days per year
• Life Assurance Scheme and Income protection scheme
• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Family Friendly Policies
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme

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.