Director, Pilot Plant Manufacturing

Pilot Plant Operations & Leadership

Lead all pilot plant operations to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient execution of development and production campaigns.

Prioritize and schedule pilot-scale trials, experiments, and production activities.

Manage equipment reliability, preventative maintenance, and capital improvement projects.

Develop and maintain operating procedures, P&IDs, and process documentation.

Process Safety, Compliance & Quality

Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, PSM, EHS, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Lead Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Management of Change (MOC), Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR), incident investigations, and Job Hazard Analyses (JHA).

New Product Scale-Up & Commercialization

Translate laboratory-developed chemistries into pilot-scale and manufacturing-ready processes.

Lead scale-up planning, including mass and energy balances, equipment sizing, and process optimization.

Support technology transfer to manufacturing sites and provide preliminary cost estimates for business case evaluations.

Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing Support

Lead Lean and Six Sigma initiatives to improve safety, quality, productivity, and cost performance.

Facilitate cross-functional problem-solving and root cause analysis efforts.

Utilize operational data to improve yield, reliability, and process performance.

Straategic Sourcing Support

Provide technical expertise in evaluating alternate and replacement raw materials.

Conduct bench and pilot-scale testing to assess feasibility, quality, and operational impact.

SOP Governance & Document Management

Lead the Corporate Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) program and document management system.

Ensure manufacturing sites comply with corporate document control standards and approval workflows.