Technology Process Manager

The Technology Process Managerwill serve as a member of the Technology Leadership Team and play a key role in defining and implementing the technical strategy. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports and a strong emphasis on mentoring: the Technology Process Manager is a guiding force and resource for the organization. The Technology Process Manager will have primary alignment to one Technology but will be cross-trained across the enterprise and provide support to the others as workload requires.

The Technology Process Manager is the key link between the Chemical Research and Development (R&D) organization and the plant, working with R&D on new initiatives from research through trials and field execution and ensuring a smooth handoff and scale-up at the plant.

This position will provide technical leadership for the development and implementation of new process technologies for new and existing products, and the optimization of existing processes to improve raw material/energy efficiency, productivity and product quality, creating long-term value for the enterprise.

This role will also lead documentation of current best practices and development of Most Effective Technology (MET), including evaluating and rolling out new technologies to define new MET, and will develop technology training for site engineers and technical staff.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities:

6 or more years of relevant chemical manufacturing experience in plant-side technical roles, including direct production plant experience

Experience supporting R&D projects, commercial trials or scale-ups, with enough operational background to translate operations requirements to R&D and R&D work to operations

Demonstrated experience mentoring or coaching engineers or technical staff

Preferred: experience in monomer, specialty chemical, solution polymerization or similar chemistries and processes

Understand the Chemical division's products, processes and markets or similar products in the industry, and chemical processes from an engineering perspective

Able to effectively mentor, coach and influence others without direct authority

Able to build relationships and collaborate across Operations, R&D, the business and multiple sites

Able to develop and deliver technical training

Knowledge of chemical industry regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., OSHA, EPA, PSM/RMP)

Able to plan, execute and monitor technical projects within scope, schedule and budget

Proficient in interpreting production data to drive decision-making

Able to solve complex technical challenges with practical solutions

Quick to learn new technologies; flexible, adaptive and able to bring order to ambiguity

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related engineering discipline required

Six Sigma or other Continuous Improvement training preferred