Operations Supervisor AL

OCI Alabama LLC; Decatur (AL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

OCI Alabama LLC is seeking an Operations Supervisor to oversee the plant's operations team, ensuring safety, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. You will coordinate with the Operations Manager, supervise technicians, manage shift assignments, training, scheduling, quality and environmental activities, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

The role emphasizes strong communication, adherence to policies, and proactive problem solving, with responsibility for equipment monitoring, data

Qualifications

• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills.
• 2+ years experience as a supervisor in a chemical manufacturing plant (preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in chemistry and/or business is required for external candidates.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and prioritize work among teams for safety, environmental compliance, quality, production, and cost optimization.
• Communicate activities and targets during shifts and at changeovers.
• Coordinate with maintenance, supervise work orders, and monitor equipment/process data.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in chemistry or business

Tools

Data monitoring

Job description

The Operations Supervisor works closely with the Operations Manager and the other Operations Supervisors to supervise all operation technicians to include their daily activities to ensure the plant is running efficiently. The role coordinates activities including but not limited to safety, and process training, shift assignments, inventory, production scheduling, quality and environmental activities for team members, process, and equipment, in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner. Coordinate and provide support to other operational roles.

Essential Functions

• Supervises and prioritizes work among teams to ensure proper safety compliance, proper environmental compliance, quality assurance, production demands and cost optimization.
• Thoroughly communicate activities, goals, and targets during work shift and at shift change
• Complies with all company policies and procedures and safety requirements, including team discipline and documentation working with the Operations Manager and other Operations Supervisors.
• Promptly keeps manager fully informed of all problems of unusual matters of significance and takes prompt corrective action where necessary or suggests alternative courses of action which may be taken.
• Recommends and performs all necessary supervisory functions to effectively and efficiently manage the personnel assigned.
• Enforces all company policies and procedures
• Maintains a favorable working relationship with all other company employees to foster aid, promote a cooperative and harmonious working climate which will be conducive to maximum employee morale, productivity, and efficiency/effectiveness.
• Communication with Maintenance to ensure complete understanding of work requests
• Oversee work order tracking and issuing
• Oversee monitoring of equipment, process conditions, DCS and data
• Continuous improvement through procedure updates, and SPC
• Understanding relationship of data as it relates to process conditions upstream and downstream
• Maintain excellent communication with all chemical technicians, maintenance technicians, and contractors during start-up, shutdown, troubleshooting, and normal operations
• Active liaison to contractors to include expulsion from the site if necessary
• Continuous monitoring of equipment, process conditions, and data
• Stop any activity that could result in an injury to personnel or harm to the environment
• Be able to identify through experience when out-of-control process indicates potential problems to be investigated.
• Complete other duties as assigned by Site Management.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Internal candidates should be qualified as a Material Handler, Field Technician, Lab Technician and Control Board Operator
• External candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and/or business and have 2 or more experience as a supervisor in a chemical manufacturing plant.
• Good communications skills including written and verbal assignments

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Must be able to climb 5-10 flights of stairs multiple times
• Must be able to climb ladders (multiple rungs) both fixed and portable.
• Must be able to sustain overhead reaching, bending, squatting, twisting.
• Must be able to sustain continuous sitting and standing
• Must be able to lift ~50 lb, pull, and push tools/equipment with ease.
• Must be able to work in outside elements (Heat, cold, rain, snow, etc)
• Must be able to walk without assistance on various work surfaces (gravel, concrete, asphalt, grating, dirt)
• Must be able to verbally communicate via radio
• Must be able to wear appropriate PPE (hard hat, eye protection, face shield, hearing protection, gloves, chemical suits, steel toed shoes, fall arrest).

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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