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Headquartered in London, UK and publicly listed there since 1971, we employ c.3,500 employees across our 5 innovation centres of excellence and more than 28 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America and Asia. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent protected products.\nAt our innovation centres of excellence in the UK, Germany, China, Malaysia and Ohio, USA we collaborate closely with our customers to develop new products and enhance existing ones tailored to their needs, with an increasing range of sustainability benefits. Since 2021, we have been proud holders of the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, which recognises green technology businesses making a significant contribution to a more sustainable, low-carbon economy.\nPurpose of the Job:\nOperational Improvement team - driving the delivery of continuous process improvements to new and existing operations. Through details analysis of the plant operational performance the candiate will be identify plant performance issues and performance improvement opportunities. Collect and analyse plant data to support troubleshooting, drive improvement and implement plant trials to validate solutions. The candidate should be able to identify suboptimal operation and work with a multidiscipline team to optimise the plant activities.\nEnsure product recipes, quality and plant productivity is maintained. 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