Tronox is the world’s leading vertically integrated manufacturer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment and other materials that add brightness and durability to products you encounter every day. We are 5,700 people strong, located across six continents and unified by a strong set of values that guide us in our work. At our mines and manufacturing plants, labs and offices, we responsibly transform the earth’s resources into products and opportunities that enhance lives. Our vision is to shape a sustainable, thriving world through enriched and refined minerals.

About the role

The successful candidate will be accountable for supervision of fabrication activities, ensuring the safe, efficient and high-quality manufacture, repair and modification of fabricated components and equipment.

This is achieved through:

• Providing day to day management and supervision of fabricators, welders, fabrication technicians and contractors for your area of responsibility.
• Providing a safe and healthy working environment for the fabrication teams, ensuring compliance with all relevant safety, health and environmental legislation and company policies, procedures and standards.
• Providing direction and allocating work activities, ensuring compliance with site engineering standards, fabrication and quality procedures, and industry best practice.
• Managing and monitoring fabrication KPIs such as schedule compliance and ensuring compliance with change management processes.
• Participate, audit and improve meetings, as required by the Operational Effectiveness & Review process (OE&R).

Main Roles and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Providing front-line leadership demonstrating Tronox values and behaviours.
• Supervising employees to execute fabrication, welding and structural repair work to a high quality standard in accordance with the daily work schedule.
• Diagnosing fabrication, welding and structural integrity issues within their designated plant/area. 
• Ensuring that effects of emergent work are prioritised against schedule completion and urgent fabrication support is provided as needed.
• Collaborating with other Supervisors and Leads to ensure overarching priorities are achieved.
• Ensuring routine and other work management processes are completed and correctly documented.
• Ensuring adherence with all regulatory requirements and champions effective safety and risk practices.
• Championing team idea generation and Operational Excellence (OE) activities.
• Managing all related personnel actions (e.g. selection, training, succession planning, overtime, performance reviews, grievance procedures).

Site Specific Roles and Responsibilities:

HSE

• Act and plan activities in a manner that ensures the Safety and Health of self and others at all times.
• Establish and maintain a safe and healthy working environment and working practices, ensuring compliance with all relevant Safety, Health and Environmental legislation and Company policies, procedures and standards.
• Ensure all incidents, injuries and near misses are communicated and effectively case managed.
• Ensure the Company objectives with respect to safety are achieved for the team assigned to the Supervisor utilising the tools available.
• Lead or participate in Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) of incidents and accidents relating to your area of responsibility, as appropriate.

People

• Monitor and manage individual and team performance standards, making effective use of relevant HR processes and procedures to support this (e.g. Disciplinary & Capability Procedures, Sickness Absence Management Procedure, etc.).
• Set individual targets, based upon Company goals/objectives, for team members and undertake recorded mid and end-of-year reviews.
• Manage holidays with the team to ensure minimal disruption to fabrication schedules and plant needs, with minimum need for external contract support.
• Mentor Team Leaders, Fabricators and Welders to continually improve the "can-do/will-do" culture.
• Cascade information, as necessary, and ensure correct understanding within the team and, where appropriate, communicate any concerns/comments to higher management.
• Ensure that the actions and decisions of self and others in your area of responsibility are consistent with corporate values, business ethics and the law.
• Act as a role model for your team by demonstrating and maintaining high personal standards of work practice and behaviour in line with the 'Stallingborough Way' (Company's Core Values) and Code of Business Ethics.

Engineering Standards and Systems

• Ensure high standards of housekeeping within offices, workshops and relevant working areas assigned to the Supervisor.
• Ensure all fabrication, welding and repair activities comply with Site Engineering Standards, fabrication/quality procedures and industry best practice.
• Monitor and manage compliance in the field, "right first time", through routine auditing, ensuring all corrective actions are followed through and closed out.
• Ensure workflow is executed for routine fabrication work, planned outages, projects and site repairs.
• Manage and monitor a suite of KPIs assigned to the position, e.g. schedule compliance, quality compliance, rework rates, fabrication backlog and risk factor compliance.
• Ensure change management processes are followed for all non-standard fabrications, modifications and installations.
• Contribute to the preparation of Maintenance Instructions (MI’s) and undertake review of new and existing documents

About You:

Qualifications/Skills

Higher National Certificate or Higher National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Fabrication & Welding Engineering, or relevant proven experience

Essential Skills & Competencies:

• Experience in the supervision of fabrication, welding and structural repair activities and knowledge of Engineering and Fabrication Processes.
• Strong technical knowledge of fabrication, welding processes, materials and associated QA/QC requirements.
• Working knowledge of relevant fabrication and welding codes and standards, including ASME, API and BS EN, with the ability to interpret and apply their requirements to fabrication activities.
• Experience in welding and material control, including WPS/WPQRs, welder qualifications, welding consumables, material certification and traceability.
• Working knowledge of NDT and inspection techniques, including PT, MPI/DPI, UT and RT, and their application within fabrication quality processes.
• Experience in compiling and reviewing fabrication QA/QC documentation and dossiers, including material certificates, weld records, NDT reports, inspection/test records and final handover documentation.
• Ability to interpret changes in legislation, engineering standards and industry best practice and implement appropriate changes to fabrication processes and procedures.
• Strong people management skills.
• Problem solving.
• Computer literacy (i.e. MS Office, SAP, etc.).
• Ability to communicate, both written and verbal, to team members and higher management.

Primary Location

Stallingborough site.

Why Join Tronox?

Our global reach is strengthened by our human connections. We challenge one another to deliver excellence and encourage our people to think big. Together, we develop innovations that make products vibrant and durable as we contribute to a cleaner world.  ​​

When you join Tronox, you’ll work with brilliant people, close to home and around the world. We offer a dynamic, supportive environment that empowers you to achieve your fullest potential — because we recognise that when you grow, we grow. 

In addition to offering a competitive salary and benefits, we provide a work experience that prioritises what truly matters:

• We strive for excellence in safety and sustainability, focusing on what is critical to improve how we operate and to enhance the communities where we work and live.
• We provide challenging work and encourage innovative thinking, collaborating closely to bring our best ideas forward and add value for our customers.
• We invest in and value the success of our people, empowering them to take charge of their personal and professional development.  
• We are unified globally and strengthened locally, leveraging the most culturally and geographically diverse team in the industry to connect better around the world.

At Tronox, Stallingborough we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.  This means that we are part of a movement, creating change and thinking differently and taking action to improve how we recruit, retain and develop disabled people.  If you want to know more about this or this impacts your application, please do not hesitate to contact Lora Grant, HR Administrator at Lora.Grant@tronox.com where she can support with your query or arrange a phone call to discuss further.

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