Operations Manager

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland LLC has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Manager to join our team at our Kenedy, TX location.

This position will report to the Plant Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Maintain budget for the Production department and assist in monitoring compliance to the budget


* Ensure production schedules for both the Aquaflow and Derivatives production groups are completed


* Ensure training completion and qualification of personnel on procedures and operating standards


* Coordinate system downtime with maintenance needs


* Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers' expectations


* Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards


* Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring production losses, downtime, and quality issues


* Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results


* Collect and analyze data to find places of waste (eg: labor utilization, bottlenecks, process variation, performance losses)


* Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets


* Participate in management of change (MOC) reviews for process, equipment, or procedural changes


* Support capital projects, startups, shutdowns, and commissioning activities


* Lead incident investigations, corrective actions, and follow-up on safety observations


* Address employees' issues or grievances and administer collective bargaining agreements


* Promote a culture of accountability, operational discipline, and continuous improvement across the production organization

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:



* 5-8 years of manufacturing experience in a chemical or process industry


* BS degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering


* 2-3 years of leadership experience in a production or operations environment


* Proven track record of managing production teams and delivering results across safety, quality, cost, and throughput


* Experience with batch and/or continuous processing systems (bulk solids handling and polymer chemistry preferred)


* Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally with maintenance, engineering, and EH&S teams


* Good written and oral communication skills are required
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