If you have been impacted by the Venator redundancies, you are not alone, and there are good options.
Skills earned in pigments and chemical manufacturing carry straight across into energy, utilities and other process industries.
This guide sets out practical steps, how to position your CV, and how Astute will support you.
Who we can help after the Venator redundancies
We regularly place people from process manufacturing into energy and adjacent sectors.
If your background links to TiO2, pigments, or wider chemicals, your skills transfer.
Profiles that would move quickly after the Venator redundancies include:
- Process Operators and Shift Technicians with DCS experience
- Control Room Operators and Panel Technicians
- Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians
- Mechanical Fitters and Reliability or Condition Monitoring Technicians
- HSE Advisors, Quality Technicians, and Laboratory Analysts
- Planners, Stores and Materials Coordinators
If you have logged permits to work, managed isolations, used LOTO, issued safety documentation, or worked to COMAH standards, mention this clearly.
These details help employers understand how your experience aligns beyond the Venator redundancies.
Where your skills transfer after the Venator redundancies
You do not need to start again.
Candidates moving on from the Venator redundancies could easily land in:
- Energy from Waste, operations and maintenance
- Gas fired power, CCGT, peaking and flexible generation
- Grid scale battery storage operations, HV and LV authorised roles
- Water and wastewater utilities, and other high hazard manufacturing
- Hydrogen, CCUS, and industrial decarbonisation projects
- Pharmaceutical and food process plants that run 24,7 with strict QA
Location matters, however North East employers continue to hire across these settings, with some roles offering relocation or site based travel.
This is why a clear CV helps you move quickly beyond the Venator redundancies.
Five quick CV steps for people affected by the Venator redundancies
- Headline the right keywords. Add DCS platform, permit to work, LOTO, COMAH, shift, CMMS, RCA, SAP, calibration, rotating equipment.
- Quantify the environment. Throughput, batch size, lines, utilities you interfaced with, authorisations held, and shift pattern.
- Show transfer. Include one bullet that links current tasks to target roles, for example, panel operations to EfW control room.
- Evidence safety. Training completed, incident free hours, audits passed, toolbox talk involvement, continuous improvement activity.
- Keep it to two pages. Clear sections, simple language, acronyms expanded on first use.
These steps make it easier for hiring managers to map your experience from the Venator redundancies to live roles quickly.
Interviews and what to expect post Venator redundancies
Most managers will explore safety behaviours, plant start up and shut down, fault finding, and teamwork on shifts.
Prepare two strong examples for each:
- A time you diagnosed an abnormal trend and prevented a trip
- A controlled isolation and return to service, including documentation
- Collaboration with maintenance to hit availability or uptime targets
- A time you stopped work for safety and what happened next
Keep answers specific, link actions to outcomes, and use simple language.
This is effective for anyone moving on from the Venator redundancies.
How Astute supports people impacted by the Venator redundancies
Our consultants place skilled people from process manufacturing into energy and utilities every week.
For professionals affected by the Venator redundancies, we will provide:
- Fast CV review with feedback on target roles that match your profile
- Matching against live vacancies and introductions to hiring managers
- Interview preparation and honest salary guidance, permanent and contract
- Local market insight, including transferability and site readiness
- For employers, access to a structured shortlist and market mapping through People Plus
If you are a hiring manager who wants to access talent following the Venator redundancies, we can set up a rapid briefing, share a shortlist, and keep your programme on track.
Getting started after the Venator redundancies
You can upload a CV, or contact our team for a confidential conversation.
If you prefer, email a short summary of your current role, authorisations, and shift pattern, we will respond with next steps.
- Email: info@astutepeople.co.uk
- Phone: +44 (0)2392 221 600
You’re not starting again.
You’re moving your skills into sectors that value safe, reliable plant operation.
If you want a quick view on where you fit after the Venator redundancies, Astute is ready to help.
