Job Description

Directs all operational activities for plant production, maintenance and warehousing on site. Develops teams, drives safety, quality and accountability, productivity and execution of operational objectives. Prepares financial and/or operational analyses, budgets and reports. As the operational excellence champion, creates and drives vision, aligns organization to continuous improvement needs of operations, implements timely plans and actions, and audits key processes through KPIs to monitor and improve safety, cost and efficiency of operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures, complying with legal regulations (PSM, OSHA, DEEP, EHS, etc)
• Manages the following Wallingford site departments: Production, Training, Maintenance, Warehousing
• Recruit, inspire, develop, train, organize, coach, counsel, and drive accountability in non-exempt and exempt staff
• Communicate job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions
• Investigates new manufacturing management or business process alternatives in all areas of responsibility
• Create operational and strategic plans to align to key operational targets and project goals
• Maintains a close working relationship with counterparts locally in WLFD and internationally at BYK-Chemie Wesel.
• Develops and shares operations information and contributes to various review forums, including prepare and complete action plans; ; implement production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolve problems; complete audits; identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Support forecast requirements; prepare an annual budget; schedule expenditures; analyze variances; initiating corrective actions
• Manages product costing master data, SAP manufacturing data, inventory accuracy and raw materials utilization variations.
• Maintains standard operating instructions for production and maintenance, as well as training records, with support from engineering and EHS.
• Develop and manage metrics to create a safe, productive and continuous improvement culture that is aligned with business expectations
• Develop improved operations systems; develop, implement, enforce, and evaluate policies and procedures; develop processes for receiving product, equipment utilization, inventory management, and shipping
• Manage staff levels, wages, hours, contract labor, variable costs to revenues and support managing to labor and OPEX expectations
• Collaborate with HR, legal counsel and safety department to ensure all processes remain compliant with OSHA health and safety regulations and other governmental regulations
• A primary responder and back-up incident commander in plant emergencies
• Awareness and successful demonstration knowledge/training of RCRA, DOT, EHS and PSM requirements
• Manage operational related customer issues with operations team and devise ways of improving the customer experience, including resolving problems and complaints

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Effective manage, develop and supervise people
• Manage by walking around
• Knowledge of manufacturing operations
• Knowledge of a variety of policies, principles and concepts in the operational field
• Displays sound judgment, decision-making abilities and creativity
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts, such as profitability, inventory metrics, productivity, and statistical information
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all levels of the organization.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret complex documents
• Must be able to wear SCBA
• Must be able to access all areas of facility

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably chemical engineering)
• Experience in modern-manufacturing procedures and business processes, preferably chemical plant
• PSM experience
• Operational and data software experience (SAP, EtQ, data analytics tools, excel, etc)
• Sound interpersonal and people management skills
• 15+ years of related experience and/or training

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