Chemical Manufacturing Manager
Cleveland, OH
$120,000-140,000

The Manufacturing Manager will provide process engineering support to the site, including troubleshooting and optimizing operations. This role will also involve designing and implementing projects aimed at enhancing the plant's quality, productivity, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards.

Manufacturing Manager Responsibilities:

• Establish, execute, and maintain safe systems of work across plant production operations
• Manage day-to day operations including SAP transactions, audits, safety issues, maintenance needs, capital projects, process improvements, approving overtime, shipping and receiving materials, production training and procedures and other operational issues.
• Manage and evaluate resources to meet/exceed productivity requirements while minimizing downtime
• Maintain workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments and the office
• Generate ideas, plans to enhance the performance of the manufacturing units, e.g., process, rate, yields and quality improvement through lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts. Stimulate operations personnel to think outside the boundaries
• Responsible for personnel employee development through growth, performance feedback, communication, involvement, skills enhancement, delegating responsibility, decision-making and coaching
• Ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded through product consistency and prompt follow up to customer issues and feedback
• Responsible for establishing safety/environmental performance targets, insuring proficiency of manufacturing departments with EH&S procedures, guidelines, and requirements, insuring the funds for EH&S improvement projects are planned and acquired, and insuring understanding and adherence to local, state and federal EH&S regulations
• Support plant-wide initiatives through involvement in activities such as the development and implementation of the site’s Lean Manufacturing Plan as well Strategic Planning develop and implementation that supports the plant and business objectives
• Develop de-bottlenecking plans to improve product quality/volume increase to attract new products to the plant
• Responsible for developing department budgets and performance metrics and meeting the budget and goals. Generate new ideas to reduce productions and supply chain cost.
• Participate and represent the plant on appropriate plant business teams and the S&OP process
• Conformance with the Quality and Environmental, Health, Safety and Security policies and awareness of ISO 9001 and RC14001 management system requirements applicable to this position
• Support implementation and maintenance of the ISO 9001 and RC14001 management systems

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related engineering field required
• 5+ years operations and/ or engineering experience in a chemical or petrochemical manufacturing setting
• 3+ years supervisory experience in a chemical or petrochemical manufacturing setting.
• Strategic thinking, good communication skills both verbally and written, strong technical aptitude, multitask oriented
• SAP experience preferred
• Computer literate – expertise in Microsoft Office required
• Microsoft Excel skills preferred

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