Production Engineer Team Lead

Huntsman Corporation•Conroe, TX

25d•Onsite

About The Position

Huntsman is seeking a Production Engineer Team Lead supporting the Performance Products Division located in Conroe, Texas. This position will report to the Senior Operations Manager. This position has the principal plant responsibility for the technical support, monitoring and improvement of production units at the entire site to ensure they are operated and produced in accordance with established procedures and within acceptable limits. This position will supervise a team of five production engineers to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective operation of the assigned units.

Requirements

An unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.
Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering preferred, with 8+ years of related experience in Chemical plant manufacturing.
Proven experience leading diverse, high-performing teams, including engineers.
Experience with SAP systems.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office software.
Communicates tactfully and effectively both verbally and in writing, and maintains effective work relations with those encountered during the course of employment.
Flexibility and adaptability to new instructions and/or dynamic organizational priorities is critical for job success.
Strong troubleshooting skills.
Team player.

Nice To Haves

Six Sigma certification preferred.
Experience with process optimization preferred.

Responsibilities

Supervise the Huntsman Production Engineers team. Assign projects, ensure workflow, guide and mentor production engineers, and conduct performance evaluations.
Serve as technical advisor to the Senior Operations Manager
Perform duties of a production engineer: group leader position is a working supervisor to support and direct day-to-day activities.
Manage front-end process functions for plant.
Facilitate process priority setting for plant management.
Collect and evaluate incoming process suggestions.
Lead and participate in cross-functional teams such as production meetings, process improvement teams, month-end closing, and plant metric reviews.
Participate in and conduct scope and process reviews.
Review and develop process justifications.
Develop process overview presentations for plant and senior management.
Actively seek opportunities to add experience and logical approach to problem solving, goal setting, plant improvements, etc.
Adjust priorities and activity to meet dynamically changing site needs