Process Supervisor

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda – key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem's market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

This position utilizes process knowledge, technical expertise, and operations experience to assist in correcting process or equipment issues and improving process performance and reliability at the Cincinnati Plant. Also utilizes plant resources with working knowledge of the process to direct, coach, and enhance the technical capabilities of the teams by sharing experiences, technical skills and knowledge. Provides a resource to coordinate, prioritize, and schedule plant activities and plant outages; and ensures the activities create value and are scheduled in a safe and optimal manner. This position is not eligible for the Alternative Work Schedule.

Functions that must be performed in order to fulfill Primary Function stated above include:

• Technical and process subject matter resource in the individual’s area of expertise.
• Interacts with varied groups of people; must have good communication, listening, and coaching skills.
• Directs and coaches plant personnel to resolve technical operation issues. Performs or assists in process-related root cause or failure analysis.
• Enhances front line skills and knowledge through directing operations personnel and coaching on process, equipment, engineering, etc.
• Identifies areas for improvement and networks with technical resources who are identifying Most Effective Technology.
• Creates, leads, and assists improvement teams; and performs with expertise centers on issues relating to their area of expertise (ie. work with reliability engineer to resolve mechanical reliability issues).
• Participates as required in product stewardship audits and customer visits. Provides support to addresses and resolve customer needs.
• Ensures service requests are value adding and align with the Business, Function, Site, and Plant goals. Ensures work requests are clearly defined, scheduled and completed.
• Ensures task value analysis is conducted on an annual basis for all plant tasks to determine Business, Function, Site, and Plant goal alignment, value, size, and role alignment. Inputs the value-adding OTS task list to the process for determining normal staffing.
• Determines if plans are required for service requests and coordinates resources for plan development. Determines adequacy of Operating Discipline procedures and plans for new service requests.
• Routes work requests to the appropriate work group or service provider. Reviews work status with service providers and originators.
• Coordinates work requests to be performed by operations personnel (ie. timing and scheduling of process equipment preparation and maintenance with the Maintenance Planner)
• Ensures appropriate resources are allocated to perform tasks and activities.
• Updates and adjusts the OTS task lists to schedule plant activities, and ensures it is the source for all plant activities that impact operations. Ensures Startup and Shutdown tasks align with plant operations activities.
• Actively support plant and corporate HESS safety programs, objectives, and expectations.
• Supports the Food Safety Program and Quality Program. Adheres to FDA requirements.
  
  

Qualifications

Education/Certification Requirements

Pre-employment Requirement

• Strong understanding of plant and maintenance processes
  
  

Post-employment Requirement

• Leadership Essentials
• Competent in SAP
  
  

Assignment, Review And Approval Of Work

• Assignments are self developed. Other work is mandated by goals and objectives set for the business and plant.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment. Ability to climb multiple flights of stairs to access the top of tanks, buildings, and process equipment.
  
  

Specialized Or Technical Knowledge

• Must have process knowledge, technical expertise, and operations experience in the individual’s area of expertise. Must keep all sensitive and personal issues confidential. Interacts with varied groups of people; good communication and listening skills is a must. Must have computer skills to use all Microsoft systems (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.), SAP, the site Electronic Tools (OTS, BBP, etc.), Workday and Internet Explorer (Site web page, OxyLink, TrainingMine, etc).
  
  

Major Or Unusual Problems

• This position interacts with the Maintenance and operations personnel to coordinate OTS tasks and work requests in a timely and prioritized manner.
  
  

Sources Of Support

• Divisional Engineers, Coord. Administrator, Safety Manager, Environmental and Quality Manager, Plant Manager
  
  

Decision Making Authority

• Process and technical issues
  
  

Recruitment Fraud

It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process.

Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:

• Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees
• Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or
• Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.
  
  

We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.