Production Engineer Team Lead

Job Description:

Production Engineer Team Lead

Huntsman is seeking a Production Engineer Team Lead supporting the Performance Products Division located in Conroe, Texas.  This position will report to the Senior Operations Manager.

Job Scope

This position has the principal plant responsibility for the technical support, monitoring and improvement of production units at the entire site to ensure they are operated and produced in accordance with established procedures and within acceptable limits.

This position will supervise a team of five production engineers to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective operation of the assigned units.

In summary, as the Production Engineer Team Lead, you will:  

• Supervise the Huntsman Production Engineers team. Assign projects, ensure workflow, guide and mentor production engineers, and conduct performance evaluations.
• Serve as technical advisor to the Senior Operations Manager
• Perform duties of a production engineer: group leader position is a working supervisor to support and direct day-to-day activities.
• Manage front-end process functions for plant.
• Facilitate process priority setting for plant management.
• Collect and evaluate incoming process suggestions.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional teams such as production meetings, process improvement teams, month-end closing, and plant metric reviews.
• Participate in and conduct scope and process reviews.
• Review and develop process justifications.
• Develop process overview presentations for plant and senior management.
• Actively seek opportunities to add experience and logical approach to problem solving, goal setting, plant improvements, etc.
• Adjust priorities and activity to meet dynamically changing site needs

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering preferred, with 8+ years of related experience in Chemical plant manufacturing.
• Proven experience leading diverse, high-performing teams, including engineers.
• Experience with SAP systems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Six Sigma certification preferred.
• Experience with process optimization preferred.

Skills and Knowledge

• Communicates tactfully and effectively both verbally and in writing, and maintains effective work relations with those encountered during the course of employment.
• Flexibility and adaptability to new instructions and/or dynamic organizational priorities is critical for job success.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Team player.

Huntsman is proud to promote equal opportunity in the workplace All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic.   

All unsolicited resumes presented by recruitment agencies are treated as pro bono information or service and will not be compensated.  

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