Operations Team Lead
The position leads the plant’s Amine or Arquad area production teams and has broad responsibility for production, safety, quality, team development and costs.
In your future role as Operations Team Lead you will
- Ensures Business Line, Operations and Supply Chain are fully coordinated
- Converts Business Plan to daily operations plan
- Provides technical expertise in the daily operations of the unit
- Assists Operators in resolving gaps between production and the plan
- Analyzes and allocates production losses
- Works with the Improvement Engineer to ensure operating plan and reliability issues are coordinated
- Accountable for creation of the PPM plan and its effects on the business, safety, and environmental concerns
- Maintains data integrity of production loss accounting database and manages MAC values and calculations
- Emphasis also includes customer satisfaction, product quality, production rates and schedule in a JIT setting. Daily activity optimization to increase Unit rate and utilization;
- Meeting budgets and maintaining the correct variable and fixed cost elements for products manufactured in the unit. This includes correct raw material usage ratios, minimizing scrap, controlling the cost of quality (scrap, rework, recycle, man hours, etc), manpower allocations, overtime and others;
- Utilizing understanding of customer ‘critical to success factors’ for betterment of AN & customers;
- Daily reconciliation of production using tools in SAP.
- Development of technical competencies among team members;
- Maintenance of this PSM unit through the Maintenance Team; optimizing utilization (on-stream) with due consideration of safety, reliability and customer requirements;
- Ensuring high quality and customer satisfaction for products, through systemization, training and processes in the unit;
- Continual improvement of products and processes; strong quality orientation;
- Integration of new projects, production methods, equipment and work processes in a unit largely controlled by DCS.
- Contribute to an effective KPI and metrics process for Process Safety. Provide insights regarding quantitative and qualitative developments by means of periodical and ad hoc reports and/or analyses for Site Morris.
- Build and maintain a network of in- and external stakeholders/partners and represent Site Morris in Process Safety related matters.
We believe you bring
- Bachelor’s Degree. Chemical Engineering preferred or minimum of five years chemical plant experience.
- Thorough understanding of unit operations, process equipment, and technology
- Thorough understanding of the sales and operations planning process; production system capabilities and limitations; and knowledge of the different conversion costs associated with product mix
- SAP production accounting experience, creating, closing and production variance troubleshooting.
- Understanding of Lean manufacturing and its applications
- Ability to listen generously and practice open advocacy
- Ability to provide people the information to perform their assigned roles by spoken word
- Ability to give encouragement, guidance and direction to others to improve performance
- Ability to use simple statistical tools such as fish bone, histogram, Pareto charts, etc. for data analysis
- Ability to collect relevant data, history trends, process information, RCA results, and other data to identify or troubleshoot process problems
- Ability to use in depth analysis and structured methodology to identify the true root causes of a situation or event
Good to know
This position requires frequent walking to various units in the plant as well as ability to climb ladders, check valves and climb stairs. Incumbent will split time 50/50 between an office & the plant.
Compensation Information
The hiring salary range for this position ranges from $101,500 to $144,900, although individuals may eventually progress through the pay scale in this role up to $188,300. Actual compensation will be dependent upon the specific role as well as the individuals’ qualifications, experience, skills, and certifications. Hired applicant will be eligible to receive annual bonuses.
Employees (and their families) will be eligible for medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are also eligible to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive paid time off and the mandated company holidays throughout the calendar year.
About Nouryon
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