Plant Manager

Pharmachem Laboratories Utah, LLC
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 a Plant Manager to join our Pharmachem Laboratories Utah, LLC business at our Ogden, UT location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Manufacturing function.
The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Maintain a safe working environment for all employees, visitors, and contractors.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, FDA, EPA as well as local and company operating standards.
• Develop mid-term and long-term strategy & budget, address urgent short-term actions.
• Build plant KPIs aligned with company objectives; build action plans to meet KPI targets; track and report KPIs.
• Maintain a model of plant capacity; track schedule and forecasted demand against capacity.
• Engage plant team to identify, log, and track continuous improvement activities.
• Partner with finance to confirm performance against financial targets (budget, forecast, productivity).
• Work closely with direct and dotted-line functions to resolve safety, quality, and operational challenges.
• Instill a high participation and respectful team environment.
• Collaborate with team to build detailed development programs, follow-up on progress against development opportunities.
• Demonstrate positive and effective communication.
• Champion plant priorities in CAPEX and OPEX projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical or food engineering
• Minimum of 10 years industry experience including operations leadership
• Track record of developing, leading, and influencing cross-functional teams
• Self-starter with urgency to deliver results.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Experience working and complying with OSHA, EPA, FDA, FSSC regulations.
• Applicable knowledge of relevant industry safety standards: combustible dust, high-hazard work, LOTO, first aid/injury management, etc.

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Experience with MPR (preferrable SAP)
• Six sigma, lean, or relevant continuous improvement experience
• Knowledge of health and wellness best practices in similar operations

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.
Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.

Job Type: Full-time