Production Leader Job

Safety, Health, and Environmental (HES) Activities and Responsibilities 

• Ensures plant, Business Unit (BU), and corporate HES policies and procedures are implemented and enforced to promote Arkema safety culture and advance HES as a core value.
• Serves as primary focal point for ensuring plant follows OSHA PSM standards.
• Conduct Root Cause Investigations for all SAFETY, HEALTH, and ENVIRONMENTAL incidents. Manage progress for corrective actions, and document all findings and results using incident tracking databases.
• Work with local manufacturing team to encourage NKC operational involvement in HES corporate initiatives.
• Serves as Incident Commander during plant emergencies if Plant Manager and HSE leader are absent.
• Serves as backup to the plant manager when Plant Manager is absent
• Supports and participates in HES and loss control programs, such as CARES (behavior based safety), CARES, THA, Starmap, SMART etc.
• Complies with all standard procedures and work instructions, aka SP, SOP, PWI, TM, to ensure productivity, quality assurance and cost effectiveness.
• Member of the AIMS Management Team. Supports all AIMS elements and ensures compliance with corporate and plant Loss Prevention policies.

Production Activities and Responsibilities 

• Supervise and motivate production employees to work safely with maximum productivity and accountability.
• Schedule overtime as necessary to achieve efficient completion of the production schedule at minimum cost.
• Maintains time sheet records and ensures that timesheet software is accurate and submitted on time every two weeks.
• Ensures employees remain up to date on all training requirements. Train operators following incidents or as part of a refresher training program. Assess operator competence following employment and on an ongoing basis.
• Understands the Union Contracts and ensures adherence to the contract with all plant activities; issues discipline as needed with support of plant manager.
• Work with local and BU teams to optimize operations and communicate daily production activities to ensure Plant/BU goals are achieved safely, efficiently, and within budget.
• Work with local maintenance team to plan maintenance activities impacting the production schedule
• Responsible for ensuring Maintenance KPI's are on track, including but not limited to SAP Work Process Compliance, MI/PM/SCS compliance.
• Develop basic understanding of all powder coating process technology, equipment, and process control technology utilized at North Kansas City Plant to ensure plant operates in safe and legal manner.
• Develop, write, and implement new operating procedures; Review and revise existing operating procedures on an annual basis
• Maintain and ensure compliance with site Procedure Use Policy
• Facilitate daily shift change meetings to coordinate safety, production, supply chain and maintenance activities.
• Effectively communicate with logistics, supply chain, and operations team to maintain an evergreen production schedule, provide batch records to operators in a timely fashion, and keep supplies and raw materials in stock
• Provide primary BACKUP for planning operations and SAP transactions in the absence of the logistics leader.
  • Learn and understand how SAP and recordkeeping activities are completed in real time relative to batch planning, staging, and production confirmation activities
  • Support Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and Logistic Coordinator to ensure On-Time shipments
• Other duties as requested

Plant Technical Activities and Responsibilities

• Maintain and provide updates for plant capital expense budget
• Manages small improvement or capital projects for the production facility.
• Continuously improve plant OEE performance. Track, report, identify and implement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve cycle times.
• Monitor and investigate material usage variances (MUVs) and stock adjustments.  Identify opportunities to minimize or eliminate variance when possible.

Quality Activities and Responsibilities:

• Provide Support for (or lead when necessary) Root Cause Investigations for all QUALITY incidents (customer complaints, out of specification batches); manage corrective actions for these using incident tracking databases
• Review and approve new/changed specifications and ensures implementation of required changes in the plant utilizing Management of Change (eMOC).
• Work with plant personnel to identify and prioritize issues and improve quality through the use of tracking tools (ATLAS, QUIMEO)
• Complete trend analysis (Customer Complaints, COPQ, NPS, RFT) to identify quality improvement opportunities.
• Provides production support to the NKC Plant Chemist to support batch recipe changes, production trials, scale-up activities, and other product development initiatives.
• Effectively communicate with logistics, supply chain, and operations team to facilitate the introduction of new products or product/process changes from RIG into the production schedule

The successful candidate will have:

• A BS in Chemical engineering (strongly preferred)
• Five years' experience in batch or semi-batch process in a manufacturing plant; or minimum eight years in plant/ manufacturing experience
• Three or more years' supervisory experience, strongly preferred
• Working knowledge of SAP or other ERP system strongly preferred
• Innovation and problem solving (independently and/or collectively)
• Strong communication skills for all levels of company
• Ability to assess and resolve emergencies and develop contingency plans under stressful situations.
• Ability to self-start and hold self and others accountable
• Ability and desire to guide and direct others to develop their skills
• Ability to influence others based on trust and authenticity