Production Lead

Production Lead (Soda Springs, )

Ruveon™ is America's dedicated glyphosate company — the U.S. home of Roundup® and the weed control American agriculture is built on. We're building a focused, fast-moving team, and we'd like to hear from you.

At Ruveon, we’re a new company with deep roots, and we’re building a culture to match. That means we look for people with agility and tenacity who possess a customer-first mindset. Everyone here is dedicated to a single mission: doing US glyphosate exceptionally well. If you’d like to be part of a team that offers flexibility and support to deliver results, open and timely communication and a climate that fosters motivation and clarity, you’ve come to the right place.

Ruveon offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. We're building a focused, fast-moving team, and we'd like to hear from you.

Plans, directs, and coordinates all manufacturing activities in a plant to produce high-quality products at competitive costs while adhering to safety and legal regulations. Ensures safe, cost-effective, timely, and specification-compliant production according to Standard Operating Procedures. Oversee process and plant safety, employee health and safety, quality, and emergency operations. Maintains external and internal regulatory compliance, including environmental aspects of the plant.

Plans, staffs, organizes, and manages personnel, including training and supervision. Allocates resources and manages cost centers necessary for safe and efficient operations. Facilitates communication and information exchange within the unit/plant and with key interfaces, such as Production Reporting. Plans, implements, and improves production processes. Manages projects focused on cost savings, performance improvement, investments, and integrations. Ensures the safe technical functioning of production facilities in collaboration with engineering and technology teams.

Responsible for the reliable operations of the North Area’s (Kiln and HEG) manufacturing processes, ensuring production targets are met in a safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective manner.

• Manage and lead operations to assure customer satisfaction and compliance; establish and maintain key operating parameters and operating standards to guide operations
• Manage and lead activities required to support unit operations, including but not limited to process optimization, SOP development, troubleshooting, management of change, root cause failure analysis, quality assurance, and control system optimization;
• Collaborate with on-site and corporate customers to ensure the plant operations meet site, company and regulatory needs and requirements;
• Monitor and analyze Plant performance and drive initiatives to continuously optimize the processes to achieve the operational objectives;
• Collaborate with the technology & engineering groups to optimize the Plant;
• Develop and implement process improvements, in collaboration with cross functional teams;
• Support site wide initiatives to drive sustainability and compliance improvements;
• Track and manage the manufacturing costs within budget;
• Hire, coach and develop personnel to ensure the training and continuing education of employees within line responsibility;
• Partner to continuously improve operations, efficiency and training for operations personnel; accountable for training material for operations personnel;
• Maintain good relations with the employees and partner with Human Resources to maintain consistent and uniform administration of personnel policies;
• The Kiln Processes include:
  • Rotary kiln for phosphate ore beneficiation;
  • Pollution control with SO2 and Mercury scrubbing along with dewatering processes;
  • Settling ponds and…