Plant Manager Job

Arkema Inc; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkema Inc is seeking a Plant Manager for their Memphis facility. This role entails overall operational leadership, including P/L responsibility and management of significant budgets. The ideal candidate will have extensive manufacturing experience, particularly in specialty chemicals or petroleum, along with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering.

Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with safety regulations and leading continuous improvement initiatives. The position necessitates strong leadership skills and the ability to foster effective communication across all plant levels.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive manufacturing experience in plant operations.
• Experience in both large and small-sized integrated process manufacturing company.

Responsibilities

• Manages the overall operation of the Memphis plant.
• Ensures compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.
• Prepares and monitors budgets including fixed, variable, and capital expenditures.

Skills

Leadership experience in specialty chemicals or petroleum plant

Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives

Knowledge of safety laws and regulations

Good knowledge of PC applications including Microsoft Office and SAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Job Summary

The Plant Manager (PM) has direct responsibility for the overall operation of the Memphis plant. This position is directly responsible for the Memphis Plant Fixed Assets (~290 million), Annual RPE budget 14M; Annual Variable Cost budget in excess of $19M; and annual Capital budget which varies from $4M to 5M.

Site has 59 employees and is unionized.

The PM has full P/L responsibility and provides leadership, direction, and management for all aspects of the plant's manufacturing operations. The PM assists in the creation of the organization's vision and growth strategies and executes the business and operations plans to achieve revenue, profit, and performance targets while continuing the plant's record of success and high levels of safety and customer service. All Memphis plant employees report directly or indirectly to this position; overall accountability for ~8 reports.

The Plant Manager directly supports Plant Staff to manage activities and lead continued improvement in the areas of Operations, Maintenance, Human Resources, Engineering, Accounting, Purchasing, Quality, and Laboratories. The PM possesses a strong, working knowledge and ensures compliance related to all external regulatory requirements, industry best practices, and internal policies and procedures (specifically capital, accounting, purchasing, and HES). This position requires a strong change‑management leader to manage the business growth and integration of new programs.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities with % Breakdown

Safety and Environment - 20%

HSE responsibilities include but are not restricted to those outlined in Leadership expectations such as reporting any incident in a timely manner.

• Insures plant is in full compliance with Arkema guidance and directives along with all applicable regulations.
• Foster a culture of "0 is possible" and drives Safety as a core plant value.
• Directly participates to some core Arkema programs such as BBS.

Operations - 50%

Ensures that safe operating procedures and practices are in place and followed. Ensures that mechanical integrity of all plants is maintained or improved to allow safe and efficient operation. Ensures that plants produce at volumes to meet demand requirements set forth in S&OP plans. Ensures that adequate training is provided for a safe and efficient plant operations.

Human Resources - 10%

Ensures that employee activities related to hiring, promotion, layoff, salary, etc. are handled professionally. Provides an atmosphere for open communication between all employees.

Financial - 10%

Directly accountable to prepare various budgets (fixed, variable and capex) then monitors and controls to insure these budgets are met.

Others - 10%

• Communication: direct contact with external stakeholder such as local authorities and Community Advisory Panel.

• Mentoring/Coaching: Develop close working relationships with plant personnel and place a strong focus on improving both individual and team performance supporting programs such as SMART.

Minimum Qualifications and Education Required

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive manufacturing experience in plant operations, process design, and engineering, preferably in both a large and small‑size integrated process manufacturing company.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering required.

Certifications/Trainings

• Lean or Six Sigma certification preferred.

Competencies – Knowledge Skills & Abilities (KSAs)

• Leadership experience in a specialty chemicals or petroleum plant is required.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives is required.
• Good knowledge of PC applications (including Microsoft Office suite and SAP) accounting systems and the ability to learn new system processes, preferably SAP experience.
• Knowledge of latest safety laws and regulations.

HES Requirement – All Jobs

• Supports the site HES policy and complies with all regulatory and internal requirements.
• Participates in HES activities provided by site management and Arkema Inc. (e.g., Behavioral Base Safety, SafeStart, etc.).
• Supports and promotes the reporting of all health, safety, environmental, near‑miss, accident or injury incidents.
• Drives behavior‑based safety culture by supporting BBS process. Performs observations and encourages all direct reports to participate in BBS.
• Must comply with all external regulatory requirements, industry best practices and internal policies.
• Works as a liaison with technical support team to ensure process operations receive required technical support.
• Supports all compliance efforts for API products to meet regulatory and certification requirements.