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Electrical and Instrumental Technician
Shotton Mill, Deeside
E&I Technicians – Build Something Groundbreaking
Shotton Mill Limited | Day & Shift Roles Available
Why This Role Stands Out
- Work on brand-new, industry-leading technology
- Be part of a major UK manufacturing transformation
- Join a business with ambitious growth plans and long-term investment
- Play a hands-on role in bringing complex systems to life
What You’ll Be Doing
- Container Board (cardboard) new machine
- Tissue production – new machine
- 50Mw – New CHP plant
- Biofuel power generation
- Waste wood processing
- Effluent & Water treatment
- Recycling facilities and supporting infrastructure
Day to day, you’ll:
- Respond to breakdowns and get systems back online quickly
- Diagnose faults and drive a continuous improvement strategy
- Support commissioning of major projects
- Deliver planned maintenance and safety preventative maintenance.
- Help shape procedures, standards, and documentation
What We’re Looking For
- Technically strong, with a completed apprenticeship and HNC (or equivalent)
- Confident reading electrical schematics and control systems
- Experienced with drives, instrumentation, PLCs and DCS systems
- Passionate about solving problems and improving performance
What You’ll Get
- £47,000 – £62,000 depending on role and shift pattern
- 15% pension contribution (10% employer / 5% employee)
- 25 days annual leave (shift allowance built into rota)
- 6 additional F days (1/2 day per month) for Day roles
- Private healthcare access
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Mechanical Technician
Shotton Mill, Deeside
Mechanical Technicians – Build Something Groundbreaking
Shotton Mill Limited | Day Roles Available
Why This Role Stands Out
- Work on brand-new, industry-leading technology
- Be part of a major UK manufacturing transformation
- Join a business with ambitious growth plans and long-term investment
- Play a hands-on role in bringing complex systems to life
What You’ll Be Doing
- Container Board (cardboard)- new machine
- Tissue production – new machine
- 50Mw – New CHP plant
- Biofuel power generation
- Waste wood processing
- Effluent & Water treatment
- Recycling facilities and supporting infrastructure
Day to day, you’ll:
- Responding to plant breakdowns with the Mechanical team, methodically diagnosing faults to ensure the equipment is running again in a timely manner
- Diagnose faults and drive a continuous improvement strategy
- Support commissioning of major projects
- Deliver planned maintenance and preventative maintenance.
- Help shape procedures, standards, and documentation
What We’re Looking For
- Technically strong, with a completed apprenticeship and ideally HNC (or equivalent)
- Mechanical hands-on experience with Pumps, Gearboxes, Screens, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Rolls, Steam etc
- Able to strip and service and accurately set up mechanical equipment in the field or workshop using appropriate specialist tools such as :-
- Laser alignment, bearing pulling equipment, thermal heaters, hydraulic pullers, presses, feeler gauges
- Experience of workshop equipment such as radial arm drills, lathes, millers, welding equipment, hose crimpers, pipe threaders.
- Passionate about solving problems and improving performance.
What You’ll Get
- £47,000 – £54,500 depending on your competency/experience
- 15% pension contribution (10% employer / 5% employee)
- 25 days annual leave (not including Bank Holidays)
- 6 additional F days (1/2 day per month)
- Private healthcare access
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OCC Manager
Shotton Mill, Deeside
Position Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day operations of the entire OCC plant, including the bale feeding systems, pulping, screening, cleaning, and refining stages.
- Ensure a reliable supply of high-quality recycled fibre stock that meets the strict technical specifications required by the PM3 board machine.
- Monitor process parameters (e.g., consistency, freeness, reject rates) to maximise fibre yield and minimise chemical and energy consumption.
- Troubleshoot complex process bottlenecks and collaborate with engineering teams on root cause analysis (RCA).
- Enforce an uncompromised safety culture, ensuring complete compliance with UK health and safety
- regulations (including HASAWA, COSHH, and PUWER).
- Oversee reject handling and water loops in the OCC area to support the mill's "near-zero effluent" environmental targets.
- Lead risk assessments, incident investigations, and implement safe systems of work (SSOW).
- Lead, mentor, and upskill a dedicated team of OCC shift supervisors, process operators, and general operatives.
- Design and deliver training programs on the advanced automation and Valmet DCS/QCS systems.
- Manage team performance, attendance, and shift rotas to maintain full 24/7 operational capability.
- Partner with the OCC Maintenance Engineer to plan and execute routine preventive and planned maintenance shutdowns.
- Minimise unplanned downtime by ensuring quick diagnosis and resolution of equipment breakdowns.
- Manage the budget for the OCC area, including tracking expenditures on spare parts, consumables, and raw material processing costs.
- Experience: Minimum 5+ years of operational management or senior supervisory experience within a large-scale paper/board mill or high-volume recycled pulp/fibre plant.
- Technical Knowledge: Deep expertise in recycled fibre preparation, OCC pulping, screening technologies, and wastepaper contamination removal.
- Education: A Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Paper Technology, or a relevant industrial discipline is highly preferred.
- Automation: Practical experience operating with modern DCS (Distributed Control Systems) and automation layouts.
- Safety: Formally trained in industrial safety management (e.g., NEBOSH Certificate or IOSH Managing Safely).
- Leadership: Strong, visible leadership style with the ability to motivate teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Analytical Thinking: Data-driven problem solver capable of interpreting complex process data to fix inefficiencies.
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills to liaise with raw material sourcing teams, maintenance crews, and senior mill directors.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary (dependent on experience)
- Fantastic company pension scheme with 10% employer contribution
- Private medical insurance for you and your family
- Group Income Protection
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- 12 half days pa
- Opportunities for professional growth within a multi-billion pound international holding group
Sales Manager (Containerboard & Packaging)
Position Overview
Travel: High mobility required (UK, Europe, and occasional Global travel)
Key Responsibilities
- Build, develop and manage high-value relationships with major corrugated box manufacturers, independent sheet plants, integrated packaging groups and other strategic customers.
- Act as a trusted commercial ambassador for Shotton Mill, using a professional and consultative approach to secure long-term supply agreements.
- Identify and convert new business opportunities across the UK, Europe and selected global markets.
- Match customer demand with Shotton Mill’s high-volume production capabilities, ensuring commercial growth is sustainable and operationally deliverable.
- Manage complex commercial negotiations, tenders, RFIs, RFQs, pricing structures and volume forecasts.
- Maintain strong visibility of market activity, customer requirements and competitor movements to support effective commercial decision-making.
- Champion a high-quality, customer-focused service culture across all commercial touchpoints.
- Act as the escalation point for complex customer issues, ensuring prompt resolution and long-term customer satisfaction.
- Work closely with internal teams to ensure customer commitments are realistic, clearly communicated and consistently delivered.
- Translate customer feedback into practical improvement actions across production, logistics, quality and commercial processes.
- Support long-term customer retention by balancing commercial outcomes with service reliability and customer trust.
- Support and deliver the export sales strategy for containerboard and packaging products across European and selected global markets.
- Manage international trade requirements, including logistics, customs, tariffs, incoterms and export documentation.
- Coordinate sales activity across multiple countries, ensuring alignment with regional market dynamics and company objectives.
- Monitor global market trends, pricing movements, demand patterns and competitor activity to position Shotton Mill’s product portfolio effectively.
- Develop structured cross-border reporting on performance, demand forecasting, pricing, customer trends and sales pipeline activity.
- Collaborate with international stakeholders across commercial, finance, logistics and supply chain functions to ensure consistency, governance and effective execution.
- Maintain a regular presence at the Deeside facility, with a minimum of 1 day per week on-site, to build strong alignment with Production, Quality, Supply Chain and Logistics teams.
- Act as the commercial bridge between customers and internal departments, ensuring expectations are understood and operational realities are clearly communicated.
- Lead regular cross-functional reviews covering forecasting, capacity planning, service performance and customer requirements.
- Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to prioritise customer needs while maintaining operational efficiency and commercial discipline.
- Build strong internal relationships and support a “one-team” culture, ensuring shared accountability for customer outcomes.
- Provide senior leadership with regular reporting on pipeline health, contract status, account performance and market insight.
- Share customer intelligence and best practice across regions to support continuous improvement and commercial success.
Candidate Profile
- Minimum of 5 years’ B2B sales experience within containerboard, paper packaging, corrugated board, industrial box-making or a closely related sector.
- Proven experience managing major corporate accounts and negotiating long-term, high-value commercial agreements.
- Strong understanding of the corrugated packaging supply chain, including box-making, sheet plants, containerboard grades and customer buying requirements.
- Experience managing international sales, export activity or cross-border distribution, ideally across European markets.
- Good working knowledge of global freight, incoterms, export documentation, customs requirements and international logistics.
- A bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Commercial Management or a related discipline is highly desirable.
- Relationship-Led Commercial Approach: Able to build trust, develop senior relationships and maintain long-term customer partnerships.
- Strong Commercial Acumen: Confident managing pricing, contracts, tenders, forecasts and high-value negotiations.
- Sector Credibility: Strong technical understanding of containerboard, corrugated packaging and the wider paper packaging market.
- Corporate Professionalism: Excellent presentation, communication and negotiation skills, with the confidence to engage at senior and C-suite level.
- Customer Service Mindset: Committed to delivering reliable, high-quality customer outcomes and resolving issues effectively.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Able to influence and align internal teams across production, supply chain, quality, logistics and finance.
- International Outlook: Comfortable working across borders, cultures and markets, with structured communication and reporting disciplines.
- High Mobility & Flexibility: Autonomous, self-motivated and comfortable with regular UK, European and occasional global travel.
- Collaborative Working Style: Able to build strong internal relationships and contribute to a positive, accountable and customer-focused culture.
What We Offer
- Highly competitive base salary
- Premium company car or fully electric/hybrid vehicle
- Fantastic company pension with 10% employer contribution
- Comprehensive private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 12 half days pa
- Global career progression opportunities within the multi-billion-pound Eren Holding Group
Receptionist & Executive Assistant
Shotton Mill, Deeside
Role Overview:
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the first point of contact for visitors, clients, and staff
- Manage incoming calls, emails, and general enquiries
- Maintain a professional and welcoming reception environment
- Handle post, deliveries, and courier arrangements
- Coordinate meeting room bookings and visitor logistics
- Provide general administrative support across the office
Executive Support
- Provide day-to-day administrative and organisational support to the Chairman and senior management
- Communicate and liaise confidently in both English and Turkish
- Manage complex diaries, meetings, and travel arrangements
- Provide support across business and private affairs as required
- Coordinate services, suppliers, and arrangements aligned to individual requirements
- Support internal and external events, meetings, and hospitality
- Handle confidential and sensitive information with the utmost discretion
- Fluency in Turkish and English (essential)
- Previous experience in a Receptionist, Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, or administrative role
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
- Ability to multitask and prioritise effectively
- Professional, adaptable, and proactive approach
- High level of integrity and confidentiality
- Flexibility to undertake a varied role with a mix of office-based and coordination duties
- Willingness to support senior leadership across a broad range of administrative requirements
- Full UK driving licence (desirable, depending on business needs)
Equality & Compliance Statement
What We Offer
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Supportive and collaborative working environment
- Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership
Work Group Leader - Energy
Shotton Mill, Deeside
Are you ready to shape the future of the UK's paper industry?
What you'll do:
- Responsible for their Energy shift team’s health and safety, environmental, technical, operational, and HR related issues.
- Responsible for their shift team’s operational performance, ensuring that output, technical specifications and quality standards are maintained to agreed standards as outlined.
- Support in leading the shift team as a Role Model and Change Agent instilling and developing the EREN culture for Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement methodologies.
- Leading, coaching and mentoring their shift team in Continuous Improvement methodology and implementation practices.
- Accountable for ensuring their shift team understands, follows and adheres to the performance KPI’s and Continuous Improvement targets in place, allowing them to achieved by all.
- Responsible for reporting the KPI’s at the end of each shift with an accurate log of any deviations
- Responsible for accurate handovers (including filling out the shift log/diary) between shifts for themselves and their shift team
- Be a technical expert within the energy team with a good understanding of the water treatment systems, biomass boiler, woodyard, gas CHP and steam systems to enable technical troubleshooting assistance to their shift team
- Leading their shift team through emissions compliance ensuring The plant operates with the environmental permit
- Accountable for the effective shift leadership across their shift, ensuring that the appropriate behaviors aligned to Shotton Mill’s values and culture, are modelled and embedded.
- Accountable for cultivating a dynamic operational environment ensuring that the shift team performs to the highest standards at all times.
- Accountable for the shift and their adherence to company policies and procedures is understood and followed at all times.
- Involved with the implementation and control of the new permit system currently under development within the energy department.
- Ability to carry out risk assessments, update SOPs etc.
- Responsible for ensuring their team report accurately and in a timely manner all near misses, incidents and accidents.
- Responsible for ensuring good housekeeping and 5S practices are maintained within their shift
- Ability to step into the Control Room Operator position to allow them to attend meetings etc. as required.
- Responsible for coordination with other work group leaders between departments to ensure the internal customer requirements for quality and production are met.
- Coordination of solid fuel availability with the woodyard management during the shift.
- Responsible for coordination with the site shift manager for mechanical and electrical support during the shift if required on breakdowns or with operational issues.
- Responsible for carrying out internal audits within the energy department.
- Willing to undergo continuous professional development to enhance effectiveness within the role.
- Ability to cover for other Work Group Leaders during periods of absence will be required
- Proven experience of a technical role within an energy/utilities or manufacturing environment is essential
- Previous experience working as a leader of people within a manufacturing environment or ideally within an energy sector/department.
- Leadership qualification desirable but full training will be given if successful in role.
- Ability to communicate clearly, persuasively and network at all levels.
- Highly motivated, agile, results driven with the ability to problem solve are essential.
- Previous experience/understanding of World Class Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement methodologies would be advantageous.
- Ability to work under pressure, with a logical, systematic manner.
- Leadership skills with a strong emphasis on coaching and mentoring a team is essential.
- Experience of working in a 24/7 continuous manufacturing environment.
Why join us?
- Competitive compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package.
- Career growth: Advance your career with opportunities for professional development.
- Collaborative culture: Work alongside talented individuals in a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Impactful work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference.
Development
Eren is looking for skilled and engaged individuals who want to develop and grow their skills. Teamwork is fundamental in all we do. We want to build diverse teams who want to continue to develop and grow their skills to support the business, to deliver results through advanced lean practices and state of the art assets. The current development is just phase one of an ambitious growth plan in the UK.
Apprentices/trainee
As an Engineering Apprentice at Shotton Mill, you will gain technical, hands-on skill with our most experienced engineers on site, many of whom started as apprentices themselves. You will gain workplace experience and knowledge whilst gaining your qualifications and attending college. As the repurposing project gets underway, you will work alongside our engineers in doing the work to ensure the project is successful. You will be encouraged and guided with your learning, with ample support on site to aid with your development.
Caring community
Our local recycling and energy generation initiatives not only enhance our efficiency, but also benefit our local communities.
We are passionate in our commitment to rejuvenating communities that each have a rich heritage of their own.
This understanding allows us to align the needs and ambitions of communities around our sites with those of the company — in a virtuous circle that benefits all.
Policies
It is Shotton Mill Limited’s policy to recruit employees to meet the developing needs of the organisation using professional, thorough, and fair procedures. To recruit people who are, in its opinion, best qualified to fill its requirements having regard to company standards and the potential value of candidates to the company. We endeavour to promote internal applicants wherever possible and give existing employees every opportunity for career development and ensure the best person for each vacancy regardless of sex, race, creed, age, disability, marital status and political beliefs.