Batching Manager

Description

Spray Products is seeking a hands‑on, highly organized Batching Manager to lead batching and compounding operations at our Medina manufacturing facility. This leader will oversee a team of batchers responsible for safely and accurately preparing formulas that support aerosol and liquid production across multiple product families.

The ideal candidate combines strong frontline leadership, deep technical knowledge of compounding and mixing, experience handling hazardous materials, and a continuous improvement mindset. This role is critical to production execution, material accuracy, safety, schedule attainment, and quality performance. The Batching Manager will work closely with plant leadership, production scheduling, quality, maintenance, and supply chain to ensure the right batches are prepared safely, on time, and to specification.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of batchers and batching leads in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
• Set daily priorities and staffing plans to support production schedules, line readiness, and customer demand.
• Build a culture of accountability, teamwork, communication, safety, and operational discipline.
• Train employees on standard work, batching procedures, GMP/work instructions, PPE, hazardous‑material handling, and safe equipment operation.
• Conduct performance management, skills development, cross‑training, and succession planning for batching personnel.
• Partner with HR and plant leadership on hiring, onboarding, attendance management, and employee development.

• Oversee all batching and mixing activity to ensure formulas are prepared accurately, completely, and on time.
• Verify raw materials, lot traceability, weights/measures, sequence of addition, mix times, and batch documentation.
• Ensure strict adherence to approved formulas, work instructions, quality standards, and batch records.
• Monitor tank and equipment utilization, staging, cleanout/changeover practices, and flow of materials to production.
• Coordinate with production scheduling to prioritize batch timing and support campaign planning across Medina lines.
• Troubleshoot compounding issues involving viscosity, appearance, blending sequence, mix performance, and material compatibility.
• Partner with Quality and R&D when deviations, formula questions, scale‑up issues, or non‑conformances arise.

• Champion safe handling of flammable, combustible, corrosive, and otherwise hazardous raw materials used in aerosol and liquid manufacturing.
• Enforce all site safety procedures, PPE requirements, LOTO expectations, spill response practices, and hazardous‑waste handling requirements.
• Maintain compliance with plant, OSHA, EPA, DOT, fire code, and internal EHS requirements as applicable.
• Participate in incident investigation, corrective actions, safety observations, and near‑miss reduction.
• Maintain orderly, audit‑ready batching areas with a strong focus on housekeeping and risk reduction.

• Communicate daily with plant leadership on schedule readiness, constraints, labor coverage, material availability, and risk to plan.
• Coordinate with warehouse, procurement, and inventory control to ensure raw materials are available and staged correctly.
• Partner with maintenance to ensure mixers, tanks, pumps, scales, and transfer equipment are available and reliable.
• Escalate issues proactively that may impact batch release, line downtime, schedule attainment, or customer commitments.
• Support daily production meetings and provide accurate status updates on batching progress and priorities.

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