Operations Administrator

Ashland Inc. • Hopewell, VA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP has an opportunity for an Operations Administrator to join its Specialty Additives business at the Hopewell, Virginia location. This is a visible, significant role that reports to the Operations Leader. The position provides administrative and operational support across production reporting, communications, documentation and compliance, outage planning, training and onboarding, purchasing, inventory, and improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• High school degree or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing setting.
• Ability to move around the plant and lift 25 pounds.
• Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior.
• Ability to help the company drive greater value through understanding the business, making complex decisions, and creating new and different approaches.
• Consistent ability to connect with people and support their work.
• Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and organized.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree.
• 10 or more years in a manufacturing environment.
• Financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Improve workflows, create and standardize reporting, improve efficiency, and coordinate initiatives.
• Maintain and improve daily production reports, enter information into SAP, track metrics, and manage databases and dashboards.
• Coordinate operations meetings and schedules, maintain agendas and action items, facilitate communication among operations, maintenance, engineering, and supply chain, and distribute reports.
• Maintain procedures, logs, records, and controlled documents; support audits and compliance reviews; assist with management of change documentation and record retention.
• Assist with outage-planning documentation and schedules, and distribute required communications and schedules.
• Support onboarding of new personnel and track training matrices, documents, qualifications, and certifications.
• Enter purchasing requisitions and invoices, track supply inventories, and support budget and spending tracking.
• Support projects, audits, and improvement initiatives, and provide administrative leadership for department activities.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and benefits.
• Pay-for-performance incentive plans.
• Opportunities for development and advancement throughout the global organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED