Plant Manager, Batch Chemical Manufacturing in a Brand-New, Fast-Scaling Plant | 3610789

Overview

A publicly traded global manufacturer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials is commercializing a first-to-market materials platform for the electric‑vehicle, datacenter, and advanced‑semiconductor markets, with a nine‑figure capital program behind it. The first plant is coming online right now, and you are the leader who runs it: accountable for safe, efficient, profitable production as the site grows from build‑out to full operation, fast.

A second, larger site is being built within a few miles, so a leader who proves it here could grow to run both.

• You want to get in at the ground floor and build, not maintain a mature, settled plant
• You are comfortable leading hands‑on around reactive and hazardous chemicals (flammable solvents, corrosives) in a process‑safety‑first operation
• You treat safety as a core value and build proactive safety systems into how the plant runs
• You come from a controlled‑environment, quality‑driven world (chemical, semiconductor, medical, bio, or aerospace) where processes are tightly approved and repeatable
• You wear many hats, flex day to day, and write the playbook as you go
• You move with urgency and make things happen yourself, a hands‑on operator, not an advisor waiting for direction
• If you want a fully‑built plant with every process already dialed in, or you would rather not work around industrial chemicals, this is not your role

• Lead all day-to-day plant operations: EHS (environment, health, and safety), production, maintenance, quality, engineering, and logistics
• Own the site's results across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and cost, and lead the next‑level managers who run each area
• Drive throughput and operational excellence in a high‑volume, batch chemical environment while the plant scales
• Build the systems, capacity, and team as you go; this site is being stood up, not inherited
• Run supply and inventory: raw‑material planning and days‑on‑hand, sales, inventory, and operations planning (SIOP), inventory control, and logistics
• Lead capital investment planning, equipment upgrades, and facility improvements
• Hold a process‑safety‑first culture around flammable and corrosive chemistry
• Champion Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen to raise efficiency and cut waste

• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership, including plant or site leadership (managing managers)
• A track record running high‑volume production, ideally in a batch chemical or process plant
• Comfort and credibility leading in a hazardous‑chemical, process‑safety‑driven environment
• Supply‑chain and inventory fluency (days‑on‑hand, SIOP, inventory control, logistics)
• Financial acumen: budgeting, cost control, and capital planning
• Continuous improvement depth (Lean and/or Six Sigma)
• A 4‑year STEM degree is required (engineering preferred);
  Master’s a plus

• We are targeting a base salary around $160,000, with the full range of $130,000 to $190,000 open to the right candidate, plus a performance bonus
• Strong 401(k) match plus an additional company contribution, an employee stock purchase plan, medical with an employer health savings account (HSA) contribution, company‑paid life and disability, and generous paid time off (PTO)

Location:

Based on‑site in Fremont, CA.

Pave Talent and our client are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.