Operations Manager

INEOS Pigments produces TiO2 and TiCl4 via the chloride process. The company has historically been part of a multi-site pigment production company and is now a single operating facility. Ash1 is a unionized site producing multiple grades of TiO2, operating two trains. Ash 2 is non-unionized and operates one train with only a couple of pigment grades; Ash 2 also offers merchant TiCl4 to the market. The business is driven highly by customer demand; one raw material composes the majority of product costs; product quality is paramount to customer success.

At INEOS Pigments, we value the contribution of our people in making us one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America. Providing numerous products and services to industries around the globe, from coatings to plastics to paper and other end-uses, we invest in employee development and offer a wide range of career opportunities, offering everyone the chance to broaden their experience and build a professionally rewarding career.

About the job

The Operations Manager leads and manages the operations at Ashtabula Plant 2, providing overall leadership for the safe, reliable, legally compliant, environmentally sound and profitable manufacture of products at this plant according to the strategy of business management. A key accountability is the continuous improvement of the site performance for development and future growth.

Responsibilities

SHE Excellence:

* Champion for the 20 principles of process and behavioral safety

* Perform as Asset Manager for Ashtabula Plant 2 (boundary shown in section H)

* Have employees and systems prepared to respond to site emergencies

* Ensure assets are operated within their designed parameters

* Ensure assets are maintained to appropriate standards

* Ensure robust safe work systems are in place and hazard assessments are performed (both process and behavioral)

* Assure compliance with environmental permits and legal regulations

* Drive to SHE (including process safety) targets and demonstrate improvements

Fixed and Capex

* Deliver budgeted controllable fixed costs

* Deliver variable efficiencies per agreed values annually

* Have processes that manage expenses and reveal improvement opportunities/execute the opportunities

* Evaluate Capex requirements and deliver results of projects

Reliability

* Achieve reliability target for production

* Ensure data is utilized in development of reliability improvement plans

* Deliver on quality, budgeted production volumes

* Long term competitiveness of the plant

* Contribute inputs, review and challenge of site strategy

* Partner with commercial and R&D teams to develop new site opportunities

Operations Manager Specific Duties

Provide leadership, guidance, coaching and decision making, to ensure employees understand company goals and have the knowledge and resources needed to accomplish them

Manage personnel (including performance, compensation, succession planning and discipline)

Assure compliance with HR policies and applicable state/federal laws

About You

You should possess:

* B.S. degree, preferably in engineering

* More than 10 years of manufacturing experience, ideally including at least one role as an area Superintendent to ensure strong understanding of the operating environment.

* Experience in a leadership role is desired to develop and demonstrate required leadership competencies

* Experience working in a union environment preferred

Our Ashtabula, Ohio Complex, consisting of two plants just south of Lake Erie, is a state of the art manufacturing complex with leading technology and more than 45 years of manufacturing excellence.

INEOS Pigments offers a competitive salary with an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability with the buy-up option, basic life & AD&D insurance with a buy-up option for self and dependents, 401(k) with company match.

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