Product Handling Coordinator

Date Posted: November 1, 2025
Reports To: Operations Manager
Duration: Full-Time

The Product Handling Coordinator is responsible for the safe, efficient, and reliable handling, loading, and shipping of methanol by truck and vessel. This includes indirect leadership and support of utility operators, compliance with Responsible Care, and alignment with Methanex’s global standards for loading/unloading facilities, vessel interface, safety inspections, and closed loading/sampling. The role also ensures timely communication with Marketing & Logistics (M&L), accurate documentation, and vendor qualification.

• Shipping and Logistics
  • Manage truck and vessel loading operations to balance methanol production and shipping volumes.
  • Establish and communicate loading schedules aligned with tank inventories.
  • Liaise with Marketing & Logistics to communicate delays, outages, and issues affecting customer orders.
  • Prepare accurate shipping documentation in compliance with regulations.
  • Record and investigate customer complaints, ensure corrective actions are taken.
  • Complete and submit vendor qualification forms.
  • Verify safety, insurance, and compliance documentation.
  • Maintain updated records of qualified vendors.
• Maintenance
  • Coordinate with Operations Maintenance Coordinator or Maintenance department to ensure inspections, calibrations, and repairs in the utilities area.
  • Verify safety equipment (gas detectors, monitors) calibration and event logs.
  • Track tools and equipment requiring repair or certification.
  • Manage purchasing and supplies in Maximo to avoid disruption.
  • Maintain updates and health of standard work in Hexagon J5, (checklists, forms, rounds) related to logistics.
  • Ensures safety equipment (ammonia/methanol monitors, gas detectors) are bump tested, calibrated, and event logs downloaded.
• Leadership
  • Participate in orientation, onboarding, training and mentorship of operators training in utilities to ensure competence.
  • Teach utilities operators inventory requirements as well as billing and customs preparation.
  • Participates on as needed basis in recruitment and selection processes for positions within the operations team.
  • Documents and reports to the Shift Supervisor all personnel issues for corrective action and traceability.
• Legislative and Company Policy Compliance
  • Performs compliance checks to ensure routine and non-routine job tasks are performed in compliance with company policies/procedures and regulating entities. (OSHA, USCG, TCEQ, EPA, PHMSA etc.)
  • Participates in HAZOPs for all non-routine tasks.
  • Reports (internally & externally) all incidents within the product handling area. Participates in investigations, assigns corrective actions, and ensures they are followed through to completion. Participates in Cause Mapping/Tap Root Investigations as assigned by the Site Management Team.
  • Participates in the Work Safety Control System as an Area and Performing Authority.
  • Participates in External & Internal Audits Ensures findings are recorded and followed through to completion.
  • Works with product handlers to update work instructions and checklists as per company policy/procedure and regulating entities.
  • Verify spill containment, grounding, alarms, static controls, and emergency shutdown systems are maintained functional.
  • Ensure ship/shore agreements, emergency shutdown criteria, and communication systems are understood between Methanex and Jefferson Terminal employees
  • Oversee vessel safety inspection programs, joint inspections, signed Letters of Responsibility, and 6-hourly re-checks during transfers.
  • Enforce closed loading, gauging, and sampling procedures to minimize exposure
• Methanex Vision and Values
  • Contributes to the organizational vision of Global Methanol Leadership and as a team member demonstrates the core values of integrity, trust, respect and professionalism.
  • Undertakes all aspects of the role through living the Methanex values.
• Responsible Care
  • Enforce government and company regulatory requirements for product handling.
  • Participate in incident investigations, audits, and ensure corrective actions.
  • Promote Responsible Care® programs and safety culture.
  • Performs process and non- process…