Processing Manager

** We Create Products and Brands That People Trust to Clean, Sanitize, and Protect Their Homes and Pools*
* When you join KIK Consumer Products, you're joining a team that cares about the work we do and also about each other. We bring exceptional brands and products to consumers that help them protect the health and wellness of their families and the cleanliness of their homes and pools. We are committed to building a culture of performance driven by accountability, collaboration, and agility that enables timely fact-based decision-making and exceptional execution with unwavering ethics.

As one of North America's largest independent manufacturers of consumer products, KIK helps a large portfolio of brands and retailers bring their products to life.

** Your Role at KIK*
* We are seeking a Processing Manager to lead the Salem plant chemical processing operation and the Chemical Operator team. This role is accountable for safe, efficient, and compliant manufacture of bleach, household cleaning products, and pool shock products. The Processing Manager translates the production plan into daily processing activities; develops employees; maintains reliable processing equipment and records; and partners with Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse, Production, and EHS to meet safety, quality, service, and cost objectives.  

This position is a salaried role with a target pay rate of $,000 annually.

** What You'll Do:*
* -  Lead day-to-day chemical processing activities to safely manufacture products in accordance with approved formulas, batch instructions, standard operating procedures, and the production schedule.

-  Plan and prioritize processing work, including batching, blending, chemical staging, material transfers, changeovers, and processing equipment readiness, to support on-time production.

-  Directly supervise Chemical Operators, including shift coverage, work assignments, coaching, training, performance feedback, attendance follow-up, and performance reviews.

-  Build and maintain a qualified processing team by ensuring new hires, transfers, and promoted employees complete required onboarding, role-specific training, refresher training, and documented competency verification.

-  Review daily shift notes, batch records, process data, and operator observations; promptly address operational issues, escalate risks, and coordinate corrective actions.

-  Monitor processing performance, including schedule attainment, batch accuracy, yield, scrap and waste, downtime, chemical usage, and labor utilization. Use the information to identify and implement practical improvements.

-  Maintain a strong floor presence and reinforce safe work practices, including chemical handling, personal protective equipment, hazardous energy control, hazard communication, confined-space and emergency-response requirements as applicable.

-  Ensure Chemical Operators follow Good Manufacturing Practices, sanitation requirements, product segregation controls, and documentation standards. Partner with Quality to resolve process deviations and prevent recurrence.

-  Coordinate with Maintenance to plan inspections, preventive maintenance, repairs, and corrective work for processing equipment. Review priority items and ensure processing-related work is completed and documented.

-  Coordinate with Warehouse, Purchasing, and other partners to maintain appropriate inventory and availability of raw materials, packaging-related processing supplies, and critical chemicals.

-  Support the safe receipt, storage, transfer, and release of bulk chemicals and railcars, where applicable, in accordance with site procedures and regulatory requirements.

-  Participate in incident investigations, near-miss reviews, hazard assessments, process risk reviews, and corrective-action follow-up for the processing department. Partner with HESS on regulatory programs and technical compliance requirements.

-  Support process safety and change-management activities, including review of proposed changes to chemicals, formulas, equipment, procedures, or operating conditions.

-  Maintain accurate processing records, training documentation, inspection logs, and other department records required by Company procedures and applicable regulations.

-  Promote a respectful, accountable, and team-oriented work environment consistent with KIK values. Participate in selecting, onboarding, and developing processing personnel.

-  Must be able to successfully complete and maintain KIK-provided Haz Whopper and Incident…