Refinery C/D Production Shift Team Leader

What You'll Do

• Lead shift production activities to ensure actions result in safe, compliant and quality work achieving scheduled production.
• Implement or provide support for projects and programs to improve safety, compliance and quality performance.
• Lead shift operations activities with clear, consistent communication.
• Technical troubleshooting as needed.
• Plan within the department and/or interdepartmentally to maximize efficiency.
• Participate in the maintenance planning process and initiate maintenance requisitions to achieve quality and performance targets.
• Plan and coordinate to assure that production is aligned with customer’s needs and that customer orders are produced and shipped right the first time.
• Achieve targeted production efficiencies, yields, volumes and material usage.
• Execute improvement projects for reliability, yield, and rates and/or to reduce fixed and variable costs.
• Draw innovation from employees, other team leaders, engineers and other departments.
• Implement and maintain sound process controls through computer-controlled systems and operators.
• Direct, train, and monitor on-shift employees as to the knowledge, understanding, and compliance of all policies and procedures.
• Conducts regularly scheduled shift meetings and leads to inform, communicate, listen, and react to suggestions and concerns.
• Manage and communicate Key Performance Indicators for the production area.
• Develop production employees through training, coaching, evaluation and administering personal performance reviews.
• Lead adherence to established policies, procedures, programs, principles, and the bargaining unit contract

What You'll Need

• Educational requirement: BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 1-3 years’ experience in a food and/or chemical continuous processing plant desired or engineering new graduate1-3 years' leadership and/or supervisory experience desired, with 3-5 years supervisory experience preferred.
• Previous experience: Previous experience in a chemical processing plant or sugar processing plant preferred.
• Skills: Demonstrated sound, assertive, positive leadership skills, as well as strong and effective coaching skills; Demonstrated clear, informative and persuasive (verbal, written and presentation) communication skills; Demonstrated experience in project execution, with project management experience preferred; Effective organizational and planning skills with the demonstrated ability to multitask; Working understanding of chemical unit operations of food-grade processes desired; Understanding of theory concerning food-grade processing and mechanical aptitude with food-grade process equipment preferred; Demonstrated fundamental understanding of mechanical equipment; Demonstrated experience in successful troubleshooting and problem solving facilitation skills; Computer skills desired, especially Microsoft XL, Outlook, Power Point and Word.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk, climb stairs, use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms; work in hot, cold and loud environments.