Site Operations Manager

Overview

Stepan Company seeks a full-time Site Operations Manager in Pasadena, Texas to safely and reliably manage the 24/7 continuous operations of a batch specialty chemical production facility. This role will oversee the chemical manufacturing process of surfactants utilizing alkoxylation (EO/PO) and other chemical processes. This role will directly manage multiple Shift Team Leaders and indirectly oversee numerous Plant Production Operators.

• Ensure strict adherence to plant and corporate Environment, Health and Safety, and Security (EHS&S) policies.
• Ensure production meets quality standards.
• Effectively troubleshoot and problem solve surfactant manufacturing processing challenges.
• Ensure that site production personnel are effectively trained in job functions and capable of meeting EHS&S expectations.
• Drive operational improvements; plan capital investment priorities and new chemical asset commissioning.
• Drive production reliability efforts; assess and establish operational priorities where conflicts of resources occur.
• Ensure that operating procedures are up to date, accurate, and correctly utilized.
• Coordinate with maintenance to ensure that planned maintenance work is completed to schedule and within budget.
• Create operational financial budgets.
• Ensure that the organization responds promptly to customer service issues.
• Promote and drive a zero tolerance mindset for quality deviations.
• Ensure adherence to Continuous Improvement/Operational Excellence practices and mindset.
• Manage the performance of site production personnel; recruit and select team members for site production; define roles and expectations of production personnel; develop and mentor direct reports.
• Provide leadership in emergency response and planning, including preparedness drills and incident command responsibilities by applying alkoxylation (EO/PO) chemistry knowledge.
• Manage chemical processing batch scheduling and campaign sequencing using DCS/PLC-based batch control systems.

• Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Production Management or related field, or any equivalent suitable combination of education, training, or experience as determined by a qualified evaluation service.
• Position also requires 10 years of progressive experience in production supervision or a related occupation in 24/7 continuous operations of a batch specialty chemical production environment to include 10 years of experience in each of these areas: communication of production requirements and high-level autonomous decision making regarding hazardous surfactant chemical production; managing subordinate operations personnel in a batch specialty chemical production environment;
  
  troubleshooting & problem solving of surfactant chemical production; recruiting, leading, developing and training teams of employees in chemical process operations, including safe handling and management of hazardous surfactant chemicals; de-bottlenecking production and operation processes; troubleshooting and problem solving of surfactant manufacturing challenges; experience with cost control, budgeting and financial analysis for operating units; executing KPI’s within production operations; working with Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) creation and implementation;
  
  directing manufacturing improvements utilizing ISO 9001 (including supporting CAPA, supplier quality, and customer complaint resolution) and other structured quality improvement tools; utilizing SAP enterprise resource planning tool for forecasting production and scheduling; directing operations of batch specialty chemical production processes, including alkoxylation (EO/PO); leadership in OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) compliance; and capital project implementation, commissioning of new chemical assets.
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