Regional Manufacturing Director - West

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Reporting to the VP Global Manufacturing, this key regional leadership role is responsible for the overall manufacturing operations across supported chemical manufacturing sites, including Springfield, OR, Missoula MT, Sheboygan, WI & Edmonton, Canada.

You will be accountable for driving robust regional performance with a strong focus on EHS, customer service, people development, productivity, operational excellence, and disciplined compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements. This role requires a hands‑on change leader who communicates clearly, builds trust across sites and functions, and engages teams to continually make tomorrow better than today.

• Model safety excellence and ensure site activities are executed to meet EHS objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Strengthen process safety discipline and ensure compliance with corporate standards, PSM expectations, and applicable regulations.
• Ensure risk is actively identified, escalated, and managed so customer deliveries are not interrupted by reliability, capability, compliance, or supply‑related issues.
• Reinforce strong operating discipline, housekeeping, and accountability across the regional manufacturing organization.

• Lead regional manufacturing execution across safety, quality, delivery, cost/cash, innovation, and people‑related KPIs.
• Analyze regional operational data to identify gaps, define priorities, and improve overall manufacturing effectiveness.
• Drive standardization and process optimization strategies that maximize asset reliability and utilization while minimizing conversion costs.
• Partner with site and functional leaders to ensure customer and quality expectations are consistently met or exceeded.

• Assess, select, upgrade, develop, train, and mentor site and regional manufacturing leaders.
• Set clear expectations for safety, execution discipline, accountability, and leadership behaviors.
• Build organizational capability through coaching, talent development, and consistent operating routines.
• Create an engaged, collaborative, and results‑oriented culture across multiple sites.

• Drive operational excellence using tools such as 5S, Lean, Gemba, Leader Standard Work, visual management, and data‑driven problem solving.
• Translate improvement opportunities into measurable actions that improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance.

• Contribute to short‑term and long‑term planning processes for the region.
• Deliver annual operating goals related to expenses, capital, and Hexion Next / transformational productivity targets.
• Work closely with engineering to monitor planning and execution of capital projects and…