Production Chemical Engineer Supervisor

Production Chemical Engineer Supervisor

Jost Chemical is seeking an ambitious, hard-working Supervisor for our Third Shift and/or Weekend Chemical Production Team!

Are you looking for a career at a fast-paced environment, where your hard work and dedication will pay off? Are you a team player, who sets goals to get the job done and would like to use your skills to grow with a great company?

Then, this position is right for you!

Production Chemical Engineer Supervisor

Position: Fulltime, Third Shift and/or Weekends

Our offer:

• Medical/Dental/Vision Plan Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance after 60 days.
• 3% Safe Harbor contribution to your 401k.
• Up to a 4% Discretionary Match (like a profit-sharing contribution) to your 401k.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) Employees eligible after 90 days of continuous employment.
• 9 Company Paid Holidays (72 hours) each year.
• Uniforms Provided
• Foot Protection- annual allowance for all laboratory, maintenance and production employees.
• 24-hour access to our free, on-site fitness center.
• We provide Individual development, on-the-job training, and development programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Jost Chemical is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. We consider applicants, and make all employment decisions, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to recruiting and retaining the best talent in the chemical manufacturing industry.

Production Chemical Engineer Supervisor

Background

• Works under general direction of the Plant Manager in a c-GMP regulated manufacturing environment operating under Q7A standards
• Supervision responsibility, plant, and technical leadership on Chemical Production Operation, on all manufacturing lines
• Responsible for performing and overseeing daily operation of assigned Chemical Line Operator team to include planning, monitoring, and controlling of production, and to ensure safety, high productivity, Quality, and work accuracy
• Able to work on third shift and/or weekends
• Able to substitute for Area Managers in their absence

Tasks

• Assure Safety performance of the plant, focal point for incidents on third shift and weekends
• Lead, develop and supervise workforce
• Communicate relevant information on production shifts, assuring that new procedures, SOPs, batch requirements are understood and implemented on third shift and weekends; assures effective communication so employees are informed on procedures changes, quality aspects and safety topics
• Coordinates equipment, workforce, and infrastructure activities, and assigns team to achieve customer ship dates and maximize pounds produced per shift
• Maintain and monitor daily production and quality metrics
• Plan, design, and test production methods for chemical manufacturing
• Provide expert engineering technical assistance to operating facilities (includes planning/ implementing investigation and analysis in problem areas or areas of significant opportunity for process improvement)
• Identify, communicate, and eliminate production bottlenecks to maximize production capacities
• Works with and provides process engineering support to process improvement engineer department efforts including systems analysis, scope development, and evaluation of alternate technologies and methods; serves as technical specialist in the application of theories, concepts, and principles
• Develop material and energy balances, process flow diagrams, process and instrument diagrams, lead technology selection and equipment testing
• Develop engineering solutions to production and operations problems and opportunities
• Provide engineering support in planning and commissioning production related process and facilities modifications
• Develop/ modify technical guidelines, standards, and specifications in the area of specialty
• Provide training and mentoring to the chemical line operators
• Issues batch records to operators and makes sure operators follow them exactly
• Helps operators with problems during shift
• Fills in for operators online when deemed necessary to avoid production downtime
• Keep abreast of new methods and developments affecting operations for the purpose of recommending changes in emphasis in programs, or new programs, or new programs warranted by such developments
• Develop safety procedures for those working with chemicals
• Apply troubleshooting/problem solving to quickly respond to operational issues
• Work with Maintenance Department on scheduled repairs, preventative maintenance
• Estimate production costs for reporting
• Monitors production dashboards, trends, goals
• Compliant with safety and environmental regulations
• Does quality checks, provides feedback to Area Manager, Plant Manager and Quality Manager
• Does safety audit checks, provides feedback to Plant Manager and Safety Manager
• Anything other tasks deemed necessary by Management for the betterment of Jost operations

Specifications

• BS/MS in Chemical Engineering
• Three to Five years of operations experience
• Knowledge of:
  • Theories, principles, methods, and procedures of chemical engineering (Advanced level)
  • Mathematics and statistics (Advanced level)
  • MS Office software package
  • Manufacturing
• Skill in:
  • Working effectively and efficiently on multiple projects at once
  • Effective, disciplined and demonstrated documentation
  • Working effectively in a team environment, including in-depth collaboration between development and process divisions
  • Responding to rapidly changing demands
• Ability to:
  • Communicate effectively, orally and in writing
  • Develop creative solutions to complex process problems
  • Design and manage projects
  • Identify, gather, coordinate, organize and analyze data
  • Exercise judgment while being insightful, logical, and methodical
  • Excellent organization and documentation skills
  • Excellent communication skills both orally and in writing
  • Ability to develop, review, compile and verify technical data and documents
  • Ability to multi-task
  • Ability to work in a team environment
  • Ability to work with strong attention to detail and accuracy
  • Positive Attitude

FLSA

• Exempt

Current Openings for Production Chemical Engineer Supervisor Jobs at Jost Chemical Co.