Sr. Director of Operational Excellence
About The Position
Manage and support activities for Operational Excellence to include Corporate reliability, Turnaround Best Practices for Planning and Execution, Strategic Planning, Operational Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Digitalization, support large front-end project development (before handed over to Major Project Group), and Process Technology Management. Establish systems and procedures, etc. necessary to drive improvement and meet Business objectives. Set standards of performance and develop and enforce compliance with Company rules, policies and procedures. Analyze chemical plant performance and make recommendations for improvements.
Requirements
- B. S. degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering required.
- Fifteen years chemical plant production / project experience with ten years in progressive supervisory positions also required.
- Must possess strong interpersonal and management skills.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or additional education preferred.
Responsibilities
- Corporate Manufacturing Department operations expertise and review.
- Involved in large front-end engineering efforts, resolution of plant repeats quality issues, and significant equipment failure issues as required.
- Issue monthly turnaround report to ensure proper communication of turnaround schedules and costs.
- Supervise Continuous Improvement, Corporate Reliability, and Process Technology teams.
- Support special projects during the review, approval, and implementation process.
- Coordination and documentation of Turnaround Best Practices.
- Provides guidelines to Plants on best practices for small, medium and large turnarounds.
- Develop a TAR manual that will be used at all sites with a tiered approach to handle the small, medium and large TARs.
- Manage department’s Best Practices efforts and ensure Best Practices are documented.
- Operations analysis will include review of operations performance, research of bench marking data, and issuance of overall operations bench marking reports.
- Review and coordination required to publish the Manufacturing Department annual Strategic Plan including gap analysis and gap closure strategies.
- Support chemical plant facilities during large unit outages, review and implementation of area efficiency processes, and larger scale facility performance improvement efforts.
- Supervises the Vinyls and Olefin Technical Expert team.
- Ensure consistency across the Technology Experts.
- Support special projects during the review, approval, and implementation process.
- Direct supervision Continuous Improvement, Process Technology group, Corporate Reliability group, and Special Project Designees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
