Operations Manager Chemical Manufacturing

Mesa Central Research

Houston, TX

Phoenix, Arizona

Los Angeles, CA

GCNO New Orleans Area

909089 Johnson City

Denver, CO

Full time

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Engineering & Science

The realistic useable salary range for this position is in the $120,000 to a maximum of $160,000 range.

The Chemical Manufacturing Operations Manager position is located at Bridgestone’s Bio-Rubber Process Research Center (BPRC) in Southeast Mesa, Arizona. This is not a remote or work from home position. The BPRC is a Process Safety Management regulated, 24/5, continuous Chemical Manufacturing Pilot Plant facility for developing the processes necessary to extract natural rubber from Guayule shrub, producing samples for product testing and gathering engineering data for commercial scale-up.

The role is not just a management role as this role has both management and technical responsibilities and at a high level the Operations Manager Chemical Manufacturing will:

• Be responsible for safe operations of the plant
• Manage the process team (Sr. process engineer, process supervisors and process technicians) to meet site goals
• Collaborate with and assist other departments (EHSS, maintenance, engineering, lab) and contractors to fulfill the above
• Assist/perform advanced process troubleshooting in the plant, experiment design & execution in the plant, process development & design

Pay Range: $ - $

Pay Range: $ - $

• Responsible for EHSS & PSM compliance of the process team
• Provide data to EHSS for reporting and compliance
• Lead, participate in and document risk assessments, PSSR’s, MOC’s, root cause investigations and Haz Op’s
• Serve as an emergency contact for the site

• Responsible for generating production/sample/trial schedules and executing to the schedule
• Schedule raw materials
• Provide supervision and direction to the process team
• Oversee day-to-day activities within the process area
• Lead continuous improvement of production methods/procedures, equipment performance and team efficiency
• Manage process and/or equipment trials
• Provide input on annual operating budgets for the process area and manage to the budget

• Interface with the Maintenance department to coordinate plant maintenance and project work and to plan the annual shutdown
• Interface with Corporate Research & Development teammates to develop new products
• Provide input to scale processes from lab to pilot to commercial
• Provide technical input for capital projects

• Lead by example
• Lead via routine genba walks
• Demonstrate honesty and high integrity consistently to build respect and trust

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering or closely related field is required.
• PSM experience: MOC, PSSR, PHA, MI, SOP’s, root cause investigations, safety programs
• Basic understanding of process control logic – ladder and function block
• Five years operations management experience in a PSM plant
• Ten years overall experience in a PSM plant
• Process scale-up experience
• Must have good engineering technical skills

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