Graduate Process Engineer

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.

• Coordinates, coaches and actively promotes 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
• Provides operating guidance to be applied in procedures and process operating discipline and identifies 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

Knowledge – skills and experience 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.