Sr Manufacturing Support Specialist

Sr Manufacturing Support Specialist

At Solstice Advanced Materials, you will lead a team to ensure successful manufacturing support, collaborate on project plans, and drive process improvements. You will report directly to the Director ISC Site Leader and work out of our Colonial Heights, VA location on an onsite work schedule (Monday‑Friday 8am‑5pm; occasional night and weekend support may be required).

• Lead and manage a team of specialists to provide manufacturing support for projects.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to develop and execute project plans.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to the team in solving complex manufacturing problems.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance manufacturing processes and efficiency.
• Develop maintenance request list, prioritizing preventive and predictive work over routine work.
• Develop systems and processes to execute work during the backshift.
• Ensure all work requests follow the ME Standard with proper category and fields completed prior to approval.
• Develop and/or coordinate Energy Control Procedures and LOTOs so maintenance work can start on time.
• Provide support for executing life‑critical permits and develop others to be competent in permit issuing.
• Coordinate with Engineering to evaluate maintenance requirement notifications entered into SAP.
• Work with Maintenance to advance approved maintenance requirement notifications through to completion.
• Work with Safety to ensure written safety procedures applicable to any work planned are provided and followed, and to update them as needed.
• Schedule maintenance and repair activities for the site’s production lines to take full advantage of available maintenance time.
• Minimize/manage the maintenance backlog.
• Communicate status of maintenance requests throughout Operations.
• Work with the capital, operations and maintenance groups executing outages, including generation of Gantt charts to schedule work around operations timelines and ensuring minimal return‑to‑production scheduling.

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Ability to convert the most complex situations into simple solutions.
• Supervisor experience in high‑pace, high‑stress environments.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience with MS Excel or spreadsheets.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in manufacturing.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience with lock‑out/tag‑out.
• Minimum of 1 year SAP experience.
• Prior maintenance coordination experience is preferred.
• Prior union environment experience is preferred.
• Prior knowledge of maintenance excellence processes.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, a candidate must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or have asylum or refugee status in the U.S.

In addition to a competitive salary, Solstice Advanced Materials employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package including employer‑subsidized medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; short‑term and long‑term disability; 401(k) match; flexible spending accounts; health savings accounts; EAP; educational assistance; parental leave; paid time off; and 12 paid holidays.

The annual base salary range for this position is $84,000–$127,000. Salary is determined based on the scope of responsibilities, experience, education, training, key skills, market and business considerations.

The application period for the job is approximately 40 days from the posting date but may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Solstice Advanced Materials is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion or veteran status.

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high‑performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next‑generation materials through some of the industry’s most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™.

Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science.