Your Role & Responsibilities

• Directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with production and delivery of products, utilizing knowledge of products and procedures, and capabilities of machines and equipment. 

• Confers with management personnel to establish production and quality control standards, develop budget and cost controls, and to obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of products ordered. 

• Plans and directs production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors. 

• Coordinates production activities with procurement, maintenance, and quality control activities to obtain optimum production and utilization of manpower and equipment. 

• Reviews and analyzes production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of non-conformity with product specifications or operating or production problems. Develops and implements operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality. 

• Revises production schedules and priorities as a result of customer demands, equipment failure, and operating problems. 

• Consults with engineering personnel relative to modification of equipment in order to improve production and quality of products. 

• Directs and coordinates through subordinate supervisory personnel in all warehouses, LTL trucking, maintenance, shipping, and receiving. 

• Administers discipline and has hiring/firing authority. 

• Responsible for safety, health, and environmental issues in area of responsibility. 

• Responsible for acknowledging revisions to General Policies and Procedures Manual Operations as a designated manual holder. 

• Authority to approve all purchases in area of responsibility. 

• Monitors and coordinates disposition of non-conforming materials. 

• Participates in Management Review as member of top management. 

• Overall responsibility for inventory levels maintained at site. 

• Participates in customer plant visits. 

• Oversees inventory requisition and maintenance. 

• Responsible for overseeing training records maintenance. 

• Responsible for operations personnel actions relating to hiring, discipline, allocation, and training.

• Has the responsibility of insuring that all of the operational needs of the Region are being met. 

• Has the responsibility of insuring that the needs of the Region’s customers are being met in a timely and safe manner. 

• Has the responsibility of insuring that our operational procedures are being followed. 

• Has the responsibility (along with the SRQ Managers) of insuring that our facilities are being operated in a safe and efficient manner. 

Your Profile 

Education & Experience 

• Skills commensurate with a college degree in an engineering or technical field, or equivalent. 

• Five to ten years plant management experience in a chemical or related industry.