What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Manager position at The Lubrizol Corporation?
Job Title: Plant Manager
Job Location: Avon Lake, Ohio
Job type: Full-time
Type of role: On-site
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Plant Manager
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemicals market and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
The site manager is responsible for leading the LZAM site to support business requirement, operations management and performance requirement and objectives.
What We're Looking For
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers, and communities.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic.
Job Location: Avon Lake, Ohio
Job type: Full-time
Type of role: On-site
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Plant Manager
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemicals market and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
The site manager is responsible for leading the LZAM site to support business requirement, operations management and performance requirement and objectives.
What We're Looking For
- Establish and promote a plant culture that is responsive to the manufacturing environment and business needs through teamwork and personal accountability that includes a true belief that safety is a core value.
- Develop and execute annual operating plan of site based on business AOP and operations functional requirement.
- Manage the site annual operations planning and management such as objectives setting, budgeting, capital planning, performance review, organization planning, talent review and engagement.
- Manage the manufacturing performance of the site including: HSES, Quality, Delivery, Costs, Capital, Continuous improvement, Asset efficiency, and Organization development.
- Continuously improve and implement operations functional excellence management system by working with operations COE functions such as HSE, Quality, Manufacturing Technology, Operations Excellence, etc.
- Ensure establishment of Lubrizol systems and procedures that support HSE&S, operations, HR and finance programs and goals.
- Build strong relationships throughout operations to ensure teams are well connected and focused on delivering product to customers on time. Be highly connected and communicative with supply chain, procurement & manufacturing technology.
- Act as a partner and build strong relationship related business and commercial teams with a business driven and one team collaborative approach.
- Manage, lead, coach and develop the team and organization.
- HSE: LTIR, TRIR, Process Safety Incident, Environmental violation case, Risk reduction closure, HPI engagement rate
- Production: Production schedule compliance
- Delivery (Joint with Supply chain): On time deliver as promised; On time delivery as requested.
- Quality: Product Quality complaints; Manufacturing No conforming material rate
- Equipment: PM On time completion; Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- Finance: Operations Expense, Capital expense
- Project: Execution on time, quality, within budget
- People: Headcount management, talent review, organization development, engagement
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, polymer, material, or relevant engineering field, advanced degree in engineering or MBA is a plus.
- Minimum 10 years manufacturing leadership in the chemical or relevant industry
- Successful track record in career development in manufacturing or engineering functions
- Experienced at driving team development and performance, ensuring a high level of employee engagement.
- Knowledge of batch and continuous chemical processing experience with Process Safety Management (PSM) regulated processes.
- Strong communication (written, verbal, and listening) and networking skills.
- Self-motivated, sense of urgency, attention to detail
- Lean/Six Sigma experience, Green Belt Certification is a plus.
- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
- 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
- Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings
- Health Savings Account
- Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave
- Flexible work environment
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers, and communities.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic.
