Location:
London, UKM, GB

#job-location.job-location-inline { display: inline; }
Req ID: 41424
Date: Jun 17, 2026
.buttontextd41d9d2b38d48ca9 a{ border: 1px solid transparent; } .buttontextd41d9d2b38d48ca9 a: focus{ border: 1px dashed #00904c !important; outline: none !important; }

The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar. The companies produce a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group® companies operate five sugar refineries, located in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico. In Europe, ASR Group® companies operate sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy. The companies also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills in Mexico and Belize. The ASR Group® portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworths®. ASR Group® companies also produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware and foodservice product made from plant fibers, including sugarcane.

Job Title

Maintenance Supervisor

Location

Plaistow

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

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 and Italy. 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®.

Shift: Days Mon-Fri

Salary: 63,500.00

OVERVIEW

Optimise plant performance and maintenance activities by providing effective management for a team of Maintenance Technicians and a broad range of contract staff where necessary.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensure the role holder, their team and contractors under their responsibility comply with all SHEQ policies and procedures
Manage the area team of Maintenance Technicians, ensuring that safety, quality and throughput standards and targets are achieved
Work closely with Packaging & Process Team Managers and other senior engineers ensuring the optimum prioritisation of activities to ensure plant operational and maintenance needs are met
Plan, schedule and agree daily/weekly workloads, incorporating preventative, planned and reactive activities
Manage all planned and reactive E/I and mechanical maintenance activities including cleaning, optimising available resources and contractors to ensure expedient, high quality repairs and servicing
Ensure regular and consistent communication to teams and individuals through meetings and briefing sessions
Work with their team to initiate and deliver CI and other projects to improve plant reliability
Provide cost estimates for improvement projects and generate capital requests for these projects managing all costs when authorised
Participate in RCM and RCA studies of TLS plant to derive and sustain optimum maintenance regimes
Administer and review SAP maintenance system for budgeting, historical trend & reliability analysis
Plan and implement maintenance procedures, engineering Standards/Specifications, Risk assessments, Method statements and other SHEEQ systems

ESSENTIAL WORK EXPERIENCES

Relevant experience maintenance within an automated continuous process environment
Multi-skilled across a range of engineering trades
Experience of Predictive/Preventative maintenance techniques and regimes
Experience of leading and performance managing small teams
Knowledge of Health, Safety & environmental systems & procedures

ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES)

Strong team member with demonstrable leadership and people management skills
Proven ability for activity planning and coordination
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written to liaise with engineering team and within the operational department
Excellent organisational and problem solving skills
Self motivated with desire for continual personal development

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.