Production Engineer Team Lead

Location: Conroe, Texas. Reports to: Senior Operations Manager.

Job Scope

This position has the principal plant responsibility for the technical support, monitoring and improvement of production units at the entire site to ensure they are operated and produced in accordance with established procedures and within acceptable limits. The role supervises a team of five production engineers to ensure safe, compliant, and cost‑effective operation of the assigned units.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the Huntsman Production Engineers team; assign projects, ensure workflow, guide and mentor production engineers, and conduct performance evaluations.
• Serve as technical advisor to the Senior Operations Manager.
• Perform duties of a production engineer: act as a working supervisor to support and direct day‑to‑day activities.
• Manage front‑end process functions for the plant.
• Facilitate process priority setting for plant management.
• Collect and evaluate incoming process suggestions.
• Lead and participate in cross‑functional teams such as production meetings, process improvement teams, month‑end closing, and plant metric reviews.
• Participate in and conduct scope and process reviews.
• Review and develop process justifications.
• Develop process overview presentations for plant and senior management.
• Actively seek opportunities to add experience and a logical approach to problem solving, goal setting, plant improvements, etc.
• Adjust priorities and activity to meet dynamically changing site needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering preferred.
• 8+ years of related experience in chemical plant manufacturing.
• Proven experience leading diverse, high‑performing teams, including engineers.
• Experience with SAP systems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office software.
• Unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Six Sigma certification.
• Experience with process optimization.

Skills and Knowledge

• Communicates tactfully and effectively both verbally and in writing, maintaining effective work relations.
• Flexibility and adaptability to new instructions and dynamic organizational priorities.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Team player.