Process Technology Leader, Dispersants & Viscosity Modifiers

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Cultivate a high-performance engineering team and drive cross-functional engagements to achieve business objectives.
• Identify technologies, partnerships, methodologies to stimulate our thinking, elevate our practices, accelerate learning to enable step changes in performance.
• Work with global business and operations teams to align on process technology and productivity initiatives.
• Develop and implement Most Effective Technology Processes and lead global productivity initiatives.
• Partner with R&D and 3rd parties (Tollers) to develop MET-Plus and MET-Prime pipelines, state of the art process technologies and fundamental process capabilities.
• Develop MET dashboards, Metrics/KPIs to quantity process performance, potential with investment, and improvement with development.
• Deliver identified value in MET dashboard available by upgrading facilities.
• Identify technologies required for pilot process improvements and partner with broader Manufacturing Technology teams to secure necessary equipment and pilot process to enable accelerated learning.
• Lead scale-up activities with special focus on generating required data confirming product and process quality and capability.
• Embrace Lean and Design for Six Sigma initiatives to ensure data driven and systematic approaches to driving improvements and especially that effective controls are implemented to maintain gains.
• Lead product and process FMEAs to ensure effective management of risk, ensuring all process risks and operator health and safety risks are mitigated during lab, pilot plant and plant work.
• Accountable for compliance and execution of Technology License Agreements with external partners as appropriate.
• Partner with plant operations to create an effective process to surface and prioritize global productivity and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Lead execution of focus projects while also understanding where else insights gained can be leveraged elsewhere.
• Develop a high-performance engineering team to enable accelerated learning and business results:
• Work with Lubrizol’s R&D teams for opportunities to enhance engineer capability through Digitization, AI and Generative AI.
• Work to enhance member and teams’ creativity and agility through development of effective brainstorming skills.
• Foster lean start-up thinking and team mindsets with focus on minimally viable products and effective build, measure, learn cycles of learning.
• Drive superior teaming and facilitation skills ensuring desired stakeholder experiences.
• Ensure team are grounded in core engineering fundamentals, core unit operation expertise and engineering skills and risk assessment (FMEA).
• Ensure high competency and demonstrated proficiency in applying first principles of chemistry and engineering, formal and organized problem solving, application of statistics and design of experiments, project management and execution, and technical documentation and report writing.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent from an accredited university.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in chemical manufacturing and/or process development.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing Engineers.
• Demonstrated success in driving change and delivering results in a matrix organization.
• Proven experience developing teams to deliver on their potential.
• Excellent communication and networking skills.
• Sound project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills.
• Exhibits a continuous improvement mindset.