Manufacturing Manager

Reports to: Plant Manager

At Valtris, our purpose is simple: we manufacture and provide specialty chemicals that improve our customers’ products and processes; by helping our customers develop innovative and sustainable products. Join our team, and you will be challenged creatively and provided opportunities allowing your career to grow with you.

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Manager leads the Manufacturing Department at the Fort Worth site to achieve targets for Safety, Environmental, Production, Quality, and Cost. Develop and execute ideas and capital projects for Continuous Improvement of plant manufacturing operations. Lead, coach, and develop the Manufacturing Department team to enable operational excellence and growth opportunities at the Fort Worth site.

Essential Responsibilities

• Establish, execute, and maintain safe systems of work across plant production operations.
• Lead day-to-day operations through the safe and timely execution of the agreed 7 fixed schedule as well as monthly manufacturing targets.
• Manage Manufacturing Department consisting of Production Supervisors, Process Engineers, and Production Operators.
• Lead day-to day operations (including SAP transactions), housekeeping, audits, safety issues, maintenance needs, capital projects, process improvements, overtime, training, procedural updates, and other operational issues.
• Responsible for developing department budgets and performance metrics and meeting the budget and goals aligned with corporate guidance.
• Set strategic priorities for Manufacturing Department in cooperation with Plant Manager and Valtris executive leadership.
• Develop and foster a problem solving culture that looks to establish root cause and not blame.
• Generate ideas, plans, and projects to enhance the performance of the manufacturing units, e.g., process, rate, yields and quality improvement through lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts. Stimulate operations personnel to think outside the boundaries.
• Responsible for personnel employee development through growth, performance feedback, communication, involvement, skills enhancement, delegating responsibility, decision-making and coaching.
• Work with Quality Department to ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded through product consistency and prompt follow up to customer issues and feedback.
• Participate and represent the plant on appropriate plant business teams and the S&OP process.
• Support implementation and maintenance of the Valtris ISO 9001 and RC14001 management systems.
• Conformance with the Valtris Quality and Environmental, Health, Safety and Security policies and awareness of ISO 9001 and RC14001 management system requirements applicable to this position.
• Responsible for establishing safety/environmental performance targets, insuring proficiency of Manufacturing Department with EH&S procedures, guidelines, and requirements, insuring the funds for EH&S improvement projects are planned and acquired, and insuring understanding and adherence to local, state and federal EH&S regulations.
  
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 4-year Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering. MBA is a plus.
• 5+ years operations and/ or engineering experience in a chemical or petrochemical manufacturing setting.
• 3+ years supervisory experience in a chemical or petrochemical manufacturing setting.
• Good customer skills, strategic thinking, good communication skills both verbally and written, strong technical aptitude, multi-task oriented.
• SAP experience preferred.
• Computer literate – expertise in Microsoft Office required. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills preferred.
  
  
  

Physical Requirements:

• Must be physically able to operate variety of electronic office equipment – computer, printer, radio, phone.
• At times, prolonged periods of sitting at desk working on computer/workstation and on calls.
• May occasionally need to lift up to 10 pounds.
• May occasionally need to bend, stoop, reach and/or twist at the waist.
• Ability based upon position and need to perform duties/visit/walk through a manufacturing environment with the following conditions; chemical and mechanical operations, dust and fumes, working within safe but proximity to forklift and machine operations, exposure to heat and humidity, hearing or talking around loud machinery.
• Wearing of personal protective equipment as required.
  
  
  

We offer competitive pay and benefit plans focused on the well-being of our employees. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts and 401(k).

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration protected by law.