Senior Gatekeeper (F/M/X)

About The Role

Our Surface Production team, integrated within the Surface organization, focuses on safely and efficiently producing soda ash and derivative products in collaboration with Maintenance and other support functions. As a Surface Production Senior Gatekeeper, you will play a key role in coordinating production and maintenance activities, supporting standard work deployment, and ensuring resources are aligned to achieve operational and reliability objectives. In this role, you will serve as a critical link between Production, Maintenance, Engineering, and Logistics teams, helping to optimize equipment availability, prioritize work, and support continuous improvement initiatives. Your leadership and operational expertise will contribute directly to safe, reliable, and cost-effective production operations.

Accountabilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between Production and Maintenance to validate work requests, schedules, and equipment availability
• Review, prioritize, and coordinate maintenance notifications and work activities to support reliability and production objectives
• Lead gatekeeping processes to ensure production risks, permitting requirements, and operational constraints are addressed during planning and execution
• Develop and communicate production plans while coordinating activities with Maintenance, Mine Operations, Logistics, and other stakeholders
• Support continuous improvement, operational excellence, and manufacturing initiatives through data analysis, team collaboration, and process optimization

About You

Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or related Engineering degree preferred with 5 to 10 years of relevant industrial experience. Minimum of five years of experience in plant operations and safety practices is required.

Competencies:

• Production Planning & Work Management
• Operational Reliability & Risk Assessment
• SAP & Cross-Functional Coordination

Behaviors:

• Organization
• Collaboration
• Accountability

About The Pay

The base pay expected for this role is $108,000-$140,000 per year in the United States. Your salary may ultimately be higher or lower based on your skills and experience. Additionally, we provide a competitive total rewards package that includes a bonus and/or other incentives.

Benefits

• Solvay Cares program: minimum of 16 weeks of parenting leave for all employees and package with healthcare, disability and life insurance coverage
• Prioritization of well-being: Solvay Solidarity Fund to support employees through hardship, work-life balance promotion, flexible approach to work part-time or hybrid work arrangements (depending on the type of job), employee assistance program with access to physical and psychological support
• Professional development: prioritization of internal talents for career progression, access to a training platform, opportunities to join Employee Resource Groups (ERG) for experience sharing and mentorship and free language courses in 24 languages