Job Description

**Job Summary **

Under the direction of the Senior Manager of Operations leads, directs and manages all the employees on each shift/ team in providing a reliable and safe working environment to ensure that the plant is running smoothly and reliably to meet the plant’s business objectives, quality and goals on daily basis.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Ensure that safety practices implemented are consistently followed by employees and subcontractors when works are carried out.

• Monitor and Update daily SAP data.

• Manage and execute plants production planning. (Daily /weekly MRP).

• Manage and ensure any maintenance of system defects and process troubleshooting to sustain higher plant performance reliability. Follow-up with any maintenance jobs and documentation/SAP/E-maintenance.

• Manage and ensure sufficient resources are scheduled and available to run daily process

• Manage and plan operations team career development. Cross-training and promoting from within. Proactively, consistently and directly address issues of poor or inadequate performance.

• Working with others, schedules additional clean up technicians to ensure plant cleanliness and safe conditions.

• Work to ensure the plant is operated in a safe, clean, most efficient, higher reliability and cost efficient manner.

• To manage and ensure plant is operated within KPI target (i.e.: production cost, Maintain Cost, Chemical usage)

• To ensure products produced meet specification, maximize yield and system throughput is maximized.

• Work with all teams within the organization to strive to a culture with a goal of zero defects.

• Maintain a culture fostering teamwork; providing honest and constructive feedback professionally to others.

• Implements or supports various change management activities (e.g., communications, education, team development, coaching and alerts management to necessary employee warnings and counseling when needed.

• Support new product development initiative

• To ensure operators and technicians follow established guidelines when operating systems.

• To ensure HACCP Program (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point), SQF are fully executed and implemented by operations and each operator.

• Prepare and analyze operation reports.

• Perform other duties as requested or required.

**Formal Education / Certification Requirements – Essential Functions

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Required

• Four-year college degree in a technical discipline (BS in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, BSME) or commensurate technical work experience required
• Demonstrated exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Minimum of 2 years progressively increasing supervisory responsibility.

Preferred:

• SAP experience a plus.

• Read P&ID’s and schematics.

• Able to obtain TWIC certification.

• Manufacturing plant and/or refinery experience

**Travel Requirements **

Infrequently; but maybe required for training or customer needs

Physical Requirements / Working Environment and Conditions

• Day to day work is in an office environment.

• Tasks may at times be performed with exposure to all weather conditions.

• Require the usage of personal protective equipment (PPE) and may take place in confined spaces.

• Duties involve frequent walking, standing, lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying objects up to 65lbs.

• Must be able to climb ladders to access mission critical operating equipment and obtain product samples. Some towers are over 100 feet tall.

Monday - Friday 40 hours per week

3-week rotating schedule that consists of:

Week 1: 6 am – 2 pm

Week 2: 11:30 am – 7 pm

Week 3: 1 pm – 9 pm

On call approximately one weekend per quarter

You should be proficient in:

• Leadership / People Management
• Process Engineering