Shift Superintendent

Infineum is a world-class specialty chemicals company dedicated to groundbreaking specialty chemicals through innovative research, creating a sustainable future through innovative chemistry.

About the role

The Shift Superintendent leads the operations shift team and ensures safe, reliable, and efficient daily plant performance. This role supports a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement, and operates on a rotating 12-hour schedule (every other weekend off).

Responsibilities

• Lead and model strong safety behaviors, ensuring compliance with Life Saving Rules, housekeeping standards, and risk assessments.
• Ensure the shift meets daily production, quality, and inventory targets.
• Oversee all operating activities, including start-ups, shutdowns, and abnormal operations.
• Serve as Incident Commander during emergency response.
• Communicate operational status during shift handovers and provide updates to leadership.
• Supervise the Components STL and Vis-J Console Supervisor, providing coaching and performance feedback.
• Drive operational excellence through efficiency improvements and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with maintenance, technical, HSSE, and Phillips 66 Refinery teams.
• Ensure accurate documentation: production entry, maintenance requests, compliance checks.

Requirements

• Strong leadership capability with a proven ability to motivate, coach, and develop shift teams.
• Demonstrated experience making risk-based operational decisions in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Ability to evaluate and mitigate risks associated with both routine and non-routine operational tasks.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills, with sound judgment under pressure.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and set effective priorities for the team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to coordinate across shifts and collaborate with Maintenance, Technical, HSSE, and refinery partners.
• Proven ability to drive operational discipline and continuous improvement.
• Significant manufacturing operations or maintenance leadership experience or an Engineering degree (preferred).

Pay

$70,000 – $120,000 per year

Benefits

• Competitive salary, medical and retirement benefits
• High levels of project management responsibility and autonomy
• Opportunity to gain patents for innovative contributions
• Direct customer and collaborator interactions
• Exposure across several key global groups and the opportunity to work with people from around the world
• Onsite medical, café, gym, fitness classes, sports teams, and secure onsite parking
• Community outreach activities and social clubs
• Recognition, inclusiveness, and diversity initiatives
• Environmental initiatives
• Convenient access to NYC, airports, and public transportation