Operations Manager

Essential Duties

• Lead site operations with a strong focus on safety, environmental compliance, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment with regulatory and company standards.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across safety performance, compliance, operating costs, material variances, capital projects, and lean manufacturing practices.
• Ensure all field personnel understand, follow, and comply with company policies, procedures, and safety requirements, fostering a culture of accountability and operational discipline.
• Coach and mentor field supervisors and team leads in incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and the development of accurate, actionable corrective and preventive action plans.
• Develop and deliver training for field personnel on safe work practices, including JSEA completion, incident reporting, root-cause analysis, and company safety programs.
• Support and actively participate in the organization’s quality objectives, ensuring consistent product quality and process reliability.
• Meet or exceed targets for production output, on-time shipping, yield optimization, and operating costs; identify performance gaps and partner cross-functionally to implement sustainable improvements.
• Plan, staff, and manage operations resources to ensure adequate coverage, workforce effectiveness, and operational continuity.
• Develop operational strategies and execution plans for assigned areas of responsibility; execute plans and deliver agreed-upon results aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, supply chain, quality, and HSEQ teams to support safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations.
• Perform additional duties as required to support site performance, business priorities, and continuous improvement efforts.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
• Experience: 6-10+ years’ experience in a Manufacturing Environment
• Travel: 10%
• Other: OSHA PSM Plant experience

Submit to and satisfactorily complete pre-employment background, medical, alcohol, and drug screening

Must possess a valid Driver’s License

Physical Duties:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of any field-based position, an employee may be exposed to various outside weather conditions including but not limited to rain, humidity, snow, and/or heat during daytime hours and/or nighttime hours.
• The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud for extended periods of time.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of any field-based position, an employee may be exposed to various outside weather conditions including but not limited to rain, humidity, snow, and/or heat during daytime hours and/or nighttime hours.
• The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud for extended periods of time.