Operations Director

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Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America time type:
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R0027432

Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments.

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 78 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over ~23000 professionals in 160 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree.

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As Operations Director you are a senior, highly visible professional responsible for end-to-end operational performance across nine (9) manufacturing sites within the Solenis North America network. You will own results across safety, compliance, quality, service, cost, reliability, and people leadership, while collaborating with Supply Chain, Commercial, EHS, Quality, Engineering, and HR to deliver business objectives.

You are required to be an enterprise operator, someone who can inspire and guide teams, create operational discipline through visible management systems, drive continuous improvement and cost productivity, and stabilize underperforming sites while scaling best practices across the network.

Key Responsibilities:

* Safety, Health, Environmental & Regulatory Excellence
* Foster a strong Safety & Health culture across all nine sites by ensuring consistent execution of EHS standards, full regulatory and corporate compliance (OSHA, EPA, DOT, permits), and a proactive approach to incident prevention through risk identification, field presence, and disciplined corrective action.
* Multi-Site Performance Leadership (Network Scorecard Ownership)
* Own multi-site operational performance across safety (including process safety), customer service, quality, reliability, and cost, using robust metrics, governance routines, and performance management tools to drive top-quartile results, ensure accountability, and close performance gaps through structured escalation and review cadences.
* Reliability, Maintenance & Asset Performance
* Drive reliability program maturity across sites by strengthening preventive maintenance, reducing downtime, and managing structured root-cause problem solving, while partnering with Engineering and Maintenance to improve asset health, eliminate chronic failures, and ensure disciplined turnaround and outage planning and execution.
* Cost Productivity, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement
* Lead continuous improvement across sites using Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence systems to enhance throughput, yield, productivity, and cost performance, while driving structural cost reductions (labor productivity, conversion costs, waste, utilities, inventory) and sponsoring adoption of digital and standardization tools aligned with enterprise best practices.
* Strategic Planning, Capital Discipline & Network Optimization
* Partner with Finance and Engineering to develop and execute annual and multi-year operating plans, lead capital plan prioritization across nine sites to align investments with reliability, safety, capacity, growth, and cost objectives, and support strategic projects and footprint/network optimization initiatives as needed.
* Talent Development & Organizational Capability
* Coach, Support, and develop Plant Managers and Site Leaders by setting high standards of leadership and accountability, building succession plans, addressing capability gaps, strengthening the leadership bench, and fostering an engaged, disciplined, and high-performance organizational culture.
* Cross-Functional Integration
* Collaborate with Commercial, Supply…