Summary:

Provide day-to-day leadership and overall guidance to the production professional staff and ensure high standards of safety and environmental performance while delivering against production cost, quality and schedule objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Become a technology expert on the resin processes by working closely with PGA technology experts to learn the PGA resin plant process and equipment
• Supports Production Manager and works with Production Team to ensure production is completed to meet business requirements (safely, on spec quality and on schedule)
• Ensure timely technical input provided for process or facility changes utilizing the site MOC process, and appropriate communication and training is provided for all affected employees
• Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are written, maintained, utilized and complied with
• Ensures sufficient production engineer staffing for 24/7 production operation
• Works with production staff to determine maintenance needs in a manner that is least disruptive to production
• Work closely with Production and Reliability Teams to prioritize and schedule all maintenance and reliability work
• Work closely with Engineering Manager to support execution of annual Capital and
• Expense project work (Production Engineers provide Process Scope and MOCs)
• Ensures timely incident (SHE, Process, Quality and Reliability) reporting, investigation and documentation, with corrective actions identified to prevent recurrence, and followed up to completion
• Ensure appropriate Hazard Review for process changes or non-SOP production activities
• Support ensuring good housekeeping is maintained in production areas
• Supervise and coach direct reports (Production Engineers and Production Staff) to ensure organizational goals are met
• Involve the team in problem-solving activities with an emphasis on continuous improvement
• Conducts safety huddles with staff on an on-going basis
• Serves as a role model for ensuring compliance with company policies
• Ensures compliance with all federal and state safety/environmental laws and regulations
• Issue, verify and sign special work permits, confined space entry permits, and tank entry permits
• Ensures adequate training for operations personnel is completed
• Raw Material Demand, Production Planning and Scheduling

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• BS Engineering (Chemical Preferred)
• Must have distillation towers/columns, or separation tanks/equipment, or heat exchangers or reactors experience
• 8+ years of Chemical plant experience
• Demonstrated chemical production experience
• Demonstrated experience working with teams in a Leadership Role
• Demonstrated experience with requirements of PSM (OSHA 1910.119)
• Experience with major plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and start-ups