Production Leader

The Chemours Company•Louisville, KY

About The Position

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry. Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry. Chemours is seeking a Production Leader to join our growing Louisville Works Operations team! This position will report directly to the Operations Manager in our Louisville, KY location. The primary responsibility of this role is to lead by influence and align operations to meet the business and operations goals for the product lines of responsibility. Through their understanding of capabilities within the area, they will ensure continuous and efficient production in desired quantity and quality, and effectively guide maintenance work and shutdowns to support reliable operations. This role will routinely interface with business key team members and supply chain for coordination of objectives, opportunities, production needs, and understanding of customer needs. This role will guide overall quality, resourcing, and scheduling of the assets assigned and continually work to improve the capabilities of the area and operation of the assets to meet business objectives. This role requires excellent operations knowledge and work processes understanding as well as thorough Business/Commercial understanding.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with minimum 3 years’ experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment or other technical field; OR minimum 10 years’ operations experience including prior supervisory experience
Thorough problem solving, troubleshooting, oral, and written communication skills
Demonstrated leadership abilities and the ability to work with a diverse population of employees and contractors
Demonstrated understanding of safety procedures
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and solve complex problems
Demonstrated capability to cultivate results

Nice To Haves

Process Safety Management within High Hazard Process Operations, preferably in the chemicals industry
Previous line supervision experience in manufacturing
Experience catalyzing Lean manufacturing principles and implementation of production systems
Familiarity with the SAP/R3 module in finance/cost management and Work Management Process (WMP)

Responsibilities

Ensure safe and environmentally sound operation & maintenance of a high hazard process.
Act as main Operations interface and point of contact with commercial and supply chain for coordination of production – Owner of the Operations/Business managing processes to align operations on top business priorities and accountable to develop and implement plan based on these priorities.
Provides direction to the maintenance/technical teams in support of the business and serves as the point of contact for new growth capital requirements.
Accountable for meeting Total Cost of Manufacture objectives (fixed and variable)
Champions best practices, effective administration of systems and tools to direct continuous improvement toward increased operations effectiveness/efficiency.
Adjust production priorities as necessary.
Routinely interacts with Operations Manager for asset performance.
Decides on maintenance work to be done, reviews notifications to determine validity and priority when converting to work orders.
Adjusts maintenance schedule to align with production schedule and asset needs.
Creates an optimized asset schedule to include production, maintenance, and service to operations activities.
Integrates Capital/Change of Design construction plan into asset schedule.
Interfaces with maintenance and contract administration on work performed by site maintenance and contractors – Leads maintenance planning and scheduling meetings and is responsible for scheduling predictive and preventative maintenance by date of completion.