Production Supervisor

Chemours•Pennsville, NJ

35d•Onsite

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 Supervisor to join our growing Operations team! This position will report directly to the Operations Manager at our Chambers Works Plant located in Deepwater, NJ. The primary responsibility of this role is to execute the asset schedule (production and maintenance execution) for the current week. To accomplish this, this role covers a broad range of responsibilities including coaching and supporting operators, daily production support, resolution of process issues, and troubleshooting equipment. The Production Supervisor will create daily targets for the operators to complete based on the weekly production schedule given by the Production Leader. This role will also help drive improvements in process uptime and building team effectiveness to meet business objectives as outlined by the Operations Manager. These activities must be managed, daily, in a safe and environmentally sound manner. This position works closely with the Production Leader, Technical (MT), Quality, and Maintenance teams to ensure production meets desired quantities and quality and that equipment maintenance is performed in the desired maintenance window. In addition, this position manages process safety and personnel performance for the operators who are assigned to them. It requires coordination of delivery against standards established by PSM (Process Safety Management), business expectations, and daily continuous improvement efforts led through analysis of metrics. The person in this position must be able to provide leadership and development of non-exempt team members, and execution of daily production and maintenance activities for the operation's assets. The shift for this M-F position is a 8-hr day that would be available nights, weekends, holidays for calls or potential overtime as needed depending on plant reliability for a 24/7 facility

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent (GED) from an accredited institution
2+ years of leadership experience in an industrial or production-related role and the ability to motivate and train employees or comparable experience
Must have thorough reasoning skills and the ability to select and analyze appropriate data to allow decision making.
Knowledge of chemical operations and safety
Knowledge of computer use such as Microsoft office and other special programs as needed
Ability to work rotating 12 hour rotating shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime, as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree preferred.
Training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree
Six Sigma Green Belt/ Lean certification
Process Safety Management in High Hazard Process/Low Hazard Operations
Leadership Development

Responsibilities

Monitor progress through the day against targets, assist with troubleshooting of issues in the plant, and escalate any adjustments to schedule as necessary for that day for team's priorities realignment.
Breakdown the finalized weekly schedule into daily and shift targets.
Manage personnel consistent with policies in a union environment - manage all aspects of personnel, including training, timekeeping, shift assignments, accountability.
Schedules in unit and site (out of area) training for operators.
Manage any Fit for Duty issues.
Ensures adequate operator review of operating procedures and that authorized operating procedures, inspection forms, etc, are readily available for the operations team.
Drives and completes Safety/Process procedure knowledge checks to ensure active coaching and partnership on working to standards (ensure execution per safety procedures/protocol)
Demonstrated ability to get results, meet commitments, troubleshoot and solve problems that may arise as it pertains to the business's operations.
Support the organization's improvement efforts and lead initiatives when applicable.
Work hour flexibility to be the first call for a 24/7 operation.
Escalates changes to the weekly schedule to Production Leader based on asset capability for updates to next week's schedule (production, maintenance, service to ops) and communicates priority of maintenance work to support building efficiency and operability to Production Leader.
Works closely with site Maintenance for coordination of maintenance work execution.