Ineos Grangemouth

This week (4 - 8 Mar) is Scottish Modern Apprenticeship Week, Scotland’s annual celebration of the contribution made by Modern Apprentices. INEOS and Petroineos have a strong heritage of offering engineering Modern Apprenticeships with currently more than 60 in training and working towards their SVQs and HNCs in their chosen disciplines. Our apprenticeships provide hands-on experience in a large-scale manufacturing environment with partners, Forth Valley College, and support from our experienced employee-mentors and assessors.

INEOS Grangemouth is investing £350m in a new state of the art, energy efficient power plant at Grangemouth - a huge vote of confidence in Scottish manufacturing and INEOS' businesses in Scotland. The new plant is key to our continued development of the GM site. http://bit.ly/2T1vZ7u

Employed in the Construction Industry and looking for a new and challenging role? Then one of these roles might be just for you. To apply visit: http://www.ineosopportunities.co.uk

This week INEOS and Petroineos Modern Apprenticeship candidates will be taking a step closer to reaching the next stage of their application to our vocational training programme as they each sit an aptitude test at Forth Valley College. Do your best and read the instructions carefully. Good luck to everyone.

Very informative visit yesterday to the 1851 Trust and home to INEOS Team UK, exploring the Trust’s education centre (Tech Deck) and discussing opportunities for collaborative work to promote #STEM at INEOS and at Grangemouth @INEOSTEAMUK

This week it was the turn of the older members of the 93rd Braes Scout Group to visit the Grangemouth site’s Exhibition Centre as we welcomed the Cubs and Scouts sections. A similar programme to the previous week enabled the young people to find out what a refinery and petrochemical plant does and how these products make a positive difference to their lives.

We were pleased to welcome the 93rd Braes Beaver Scout Colony to our exhibition centre. The children learned all about what we do at Grangemouth, what our products are made into and the fuels we make in our refinery. They were also treated to demonstrations (and got their hands on) some of the equipment our employees use in the refinery.

New Year, New You! We’re all looking forward to a fantastic 2019 at the INEOS Grangemouth site, building on the foundations of work completed last year. We have a number of opportunities across a range of disciplines. So, if you are looking for a new challenge in 2019 visit: www.ineosopportunities.co.uk

Thank you to everyone who submitted on-line applications to our Modern Apprentice & Graduate Programmes in time for the closing date. Our teams are currently busy carefully screening these applications. For those candidates who have been successful: you will be receiving further correspondence arriving via the email account you registered with us. Please ensure you keep an eye out on your inbox and Good Luck!

We’re entering into the Xmas spirit at the INEOS Grangemouth site by supporting Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day. A big ‘thank you’ to all the teams who joined in today and last week, raising money for the charity and the valuable work it does all year round.

INFO: A routine training exercise will take place at our Grangemouth site at lunchtime (Tuesday 18th) during which we will activate our on-site sirens. People who live near to the site or those passing by may hear these sirens. This exercise is to test our on-site response procedures and there is no action required from members of our local community.

We were pleased to welcome to our laboratory, the second group of pupils from Grangemouth High School who are all following the “Skills for Work Laboratory” course at school. Our colleagues were on hand to demonstrate a wide range of analytical techniques used in a state of the art facility and answer all of their questions. https://www.ineos.com/sites/ineos-laborat ory/

It was great to see so many enthusiastic people last night at our Modern Apprentice open evening. The event provided a opportunity for them to learn about the vocational programme and to discover for themselves the opportunities that lie ahead for successful candidates. We hope you found the event an interesting and informative insight into the Modern Apprenticeship route to employment and the fantastic opportunities for careers in the petrochemical & refining industry. We look forward to receiving and reading your applications www.ineosopportunities.co.uk. Remember: applications must be received by 31 December

Pupils studying the ‘Skills for Work Laboratory’ course at Grangemouth High School had the opportunity to visit a unique facility in their very own town – the INEOS laboratory. One of the largest in Scotland, the lab undertakes a whole host of analytical tests for INEOS and third party customers. The visits have become a regular event in the Developing the Young Workforce annual programme, linking school and industry. It is in direct support of the course that the students are taking part in at their High School. https://www.ineos.com/sites/ineos-laborat ory/

INFO shared as a member of the MICC Partnership: The Grangemouth Major Incident Control Committee (MICC) will test the Community Warning System at 2.30pm on Wednesday 5th December. The community warning masts installed across Grangemouth to help communicate with the public will be activated. The system transmits warning tones and verbal instructions to the community. This will be a test transmission. The public are required to take no action. Grangemouth MICC comprises partners from Industry, Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Falkirk Council https://miccgrangemouth.co.uk/

With our investments into the Grangemouth site since 2013 soon to reach £1bn , including securing US ethane supplies and the recently announced extension to our ethylene plant https://www.ineos.com/…/ineos-is-to-inv est-60-million-in-t…/ we are building a strong foundation for the future of petrochemical manufacture in central Scotland.
Next week we will be hosting an Open Evening for candidates interested in applying to our Modern Apprenticeship Scheme. Drop in between 5:30pm – 8pm on Thursday 6th December to the Exhibition Centre, Bo’ness Road and discover the opportunities that await you as an INEOS/ Petroineos Modern Apprentice.

INEOS at Grangemouth has worked with the Chemical Industries Association and ITN Productions to help create ‘Solutions for our Future’, a series of short films that feature a review of innovation in manufacturing and industry. These news-style reports and editorial profiles highlight the very latest developments across the chemical sector. https://youtu.be/HomD--ijtfQ

As part of INEOS’ support of Falkirk Football’s ‘Kids GO For free’ initiative, the Club is hosting an INEOS Match Day in December for our employees. Manager Ray McKinnon, and players Tommy Robson and Ruben Samut visited the INEOS HQ building to present the match tickets. Alongside our support of ‘The Daily Mile’ and Go Run for Fun www.gorunforfun.com, we see this partnership with the football club as one element of INEOS’ wider commitment to encourage young people to become more active and to adopt a healthy lifestyle.