Operations Manager
Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?
Are you always solving?
Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.
Ashland has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Manager to join our Intermediates business at our Lima, OH location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the operations department. This position will report to the plant manager.
The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Responsible for safe and environmentally responsible operation of plant through behavioral coaching, site observations, and permit and procedure compliance.
- Supervision of 5 Team leaders and 18 operators.
- Key participant in MOC reviews
- Develops team leader and operator skills and mentors personnel
- Prepares nightly orders and prepares yield and forecasts on a monthly, annual and 5-year basis using history and projected performance
- Leads troubleshooting efforts of operational problems
- Active participation in maintenance planning.
- Active participant in Safe Out Planning.
- Provides technical input and mentoring to plant engineers.
- Reviews and updates plant operating procedures per the designated schedule.
- Participates in plant HAZOPs as required.
- Fills in for plant manager during absence
- Monitors product quality and adjusts operating instruction to maintain on spec production
- Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals and focusing on performance and safety
- Improve the organization capacity and capabilities through building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent and utilizing positive communications and influence with others
What
📌 Operations Manager (Lima)
🏢 Ashland
📍 Lima