Lubrizol Corporation
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About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Shift Process Operator
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Work Arrangement: On Site
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At Lubrizol, we're bringing to life the chemistry behind clean water, efficient transportation, reliable infrastructure, critical medicines, and the products people rely on every day through science, sustainability, and a culture of inclusion.
As part of our global team, you'll be empowered to make a real impact on your career, your community, and the world around you.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Shift Process Operator
Are you an experienced manufacturing or process operator looking for your next challenge? At our Huddersfield manufacturing site, you'll play a vital role in producing specialist additives used in coatings and industrial applications around the world.
Working within a COMAH-regulated chemical manufacturing environment, you'll operate plant equipment, maintain high safety and quality standards, and help deliver products that support industries including paints, coatings, plastics, printing inks, wood finishes, and metal coatings.
This is an opportunity to join a close-knit team where your expertise, commitment to safety, and continuous improvement mindset will make a visible impact every day.
How You'll Make an Impact
As a Shift Process Operator, you will:
- Safely operate manufacturing plant equipment to produce products to specification and production requirements
- Prepare and charge raw materials into manufacturing processes while maintaining strict quality and safety standards
- Receive and offload bulk tank deliveries and ensure materials are correctly identified and stored
- Package and discharge finished products into a variety of customer packaging formats, ensuring accurate labelling and product integrity
- Support preventative maintenance activities, alarm and trip testing, instrument calibration, and basic multi-skilled maintenance tasks
- Troubleshoot production issues and work collaboratively to maintain plant performance and meet production schedules
- Maintain accurate production documentation, stock records, audit documentation, and operating logs
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and maintain high workplace housekeeping standards through 5S practices
- Provide operational flexibility by supporting multiple production areas as required
- Assist with onboarding and training new employees on safe operating procedures and plant requirements
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Required Qualifications that Enable Your Success
- City & Guilds Process Plant Operations (PPO), NVQ Level 2, or equivalent qualification
- OR Accredited multi-skilled apprenticeship
- OR Nationally recognised trade apprenticeship supported by relevant industrial experience
In addition, successful candidates will demonstrate:
- Experience within a chemical, biological, manufacturing, or process industry environment
- Knowledge of automated manufacturing systems such as Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
- Strong commitment to health, safety, environmental, and quality standards
- Ability to interpret plant data and identify appropriate corrective actions
- Good computer skills, including experience with SAP and Microsoft Office applications
- Strong problem-solving and prioritisation skills
- High attention to detail and record-keeping accuracy
- Ability to work effectively within a collaborative team environment
- Physical capability to undertake manual handling, charging, maintenance, and operational activities
- Forklift truck experience is advantageous
Your Work Environment
Located in West Yorkshire, the Huddersfield site employs fewer than 50 people and specialises in manufacturing additives for Lubrizol Performance Coatings.
The facility operates to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards and manufactures a range of aqueous and solvent-based resins, polymers, dispersants, and adhesion promoters. Products manufactured at the site are sold globally and are essential ingredients in coatings, printing inks, plastics, wood finishing, and metal coating applications.


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As part of our operations team, you'll work in a manufacturing environment where appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is provided and rigorous safety standards are maintained. The role requires a hands-on approach and offers opportunities to develop technical skills while contributing to site performance and continuous improvement.
Benefits that Empower You
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including:
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Private Bupa healthcare
- Wellbeing support programs
- Competitive pension scheme
- Share Incentive Plan
- Free on-site parking
- Learning and development opportunities
- Career growth within a global organisation
- Inclusive and collaborative culture
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.
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