Refinery Superintendent - Lincoln, NE

ADM; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM Lincoln refinery seeks a Refinery Superintendent to lead daily operations, ensuring safe, compliant, and high-quality production. This salaried-exempt role partners with business-unit leaders to balance supply and demand and drive continuous improvement.

The position reports to the Plant Manager and forms part of the leadership team in Lincoln, NE. The ideal candidate has a chemical engineering background and substantial leadership experience in continuous operations and safety programs,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably Chemical.
• Minimum 2 years in a production leadership role and 4 years in a continuous operation technical role.
• Background check required.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day refinery operations to meet safety, quality and production targets.
• Partner with leaders to align supply and demand for product lines.
• Develop and implement department strategy and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide coaching and development for supervisors and technical staff.

Skills

Safety leadership

Team leadership

Communication

Plant operations

Education

Bachelors in Engineering (Chemical)

Job description

Position Description

The Refinery Superintendent is a salaried exempt position responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the department to safely produce high quality products that provide value to customers and a return to shareholders. Safety and compliance are required meeting all state and federal laws and regulations. A successful candidate will partner with commercial business unit leaders to align on supply and demand needs of the product lines, communicating when slowdowns and upsets occur. The role will be a part of the Leadership Team reporting to the Plant Manager.

Refinery Superintendent - Lincoln, NE

This is a salaried-exempt position.

Position Responsibilities

• Display a dedication to lead, develop and support safety, promoting a safety culture. Promote continuous process safety improvement, with experience managing Process Safety Management programs a plus.
• Lead day-to-day operations and serve as primary contact of the Refinery process, producing high quality products that meet or exceed Quality and Food Safety specifications.
• Develop and deliver on a long term department strategy that delivers a safe and reliable operation meeting food safety expectations while meeting or exceeding production targets.
• Lead day-to-day employees to work safely with environmental awareness and good manufacturing practices that is compliant with all state and federal laws and regulations.
• Responsible for the department maintenance strategy, partnering closely with maintenance team to deliver reliable production systems including deployment of PdM, Preventative and corrective action maintenance practices.
• Manage department to insure adherence to established product, environmental, safety and housekeeping quality guidelines.
• Provide guidance to supervisors and technical support personnel to achieve short term and long term department performance.
• Utilize Continuous Improvement principles to drive department performance and focus improvement prioritization and alignment.
• Manage chemical usages, production costs and continuously focus on efficiency improvement.
• Interacts directly with Shift Supervisors to produce desired operational results and employee development.
• Accountable for training and development of all department employees, tracking progress to ensure timeliness of onboarding
• Involved in employee coaching and discipline.

Required Skills

• Dedication to working safely and to the awareness for the safety of others.
• Leading and developing high performing work teams including maintenance, engineering and non-technical employees.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for working with plant engineers, maintenance and management.
• Willingness to spend time in plant areas - tolerate extreme temperatures, walk long distances, stand, climb stairs and ladders and move through close spaces.
• High level of motivation and results-oriented way of working.

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree in the field of Engineering, preferably Chemical.

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years' experience in a production leadership role.
• 4 years of experience in a continuous operation technical role.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

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