Senior Regional Process Technology Manager

The Sherwin-Williams Company; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Long-term incentive compensation

GSC Relocation Adjustment Program

Job summary

The Sherwin-Williams Company is seeking a senior process excellence leader for Global Polymers in the United States. You will guide a strategic team, partner with manufacturing plants and technical domains to improve process safety, productivity, quality and cost across operations.

You will manage CAPEX and non-CAPEX projects, lead scale-up and commercialization efforts, and support new product introductions while developing a high-caliber engineering group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with leadership experience.
• 15+ years of progressive technical/process engineering and/or operations management.
• Experience with coating or chemical processing.
• Experience/knowledge of P&L and corporate financial acumen.
• Strong leadership and ability to work across sites and functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact process excellence team across Global Polymers, partnering with plants and technical teams to drive process safety, cost, quality, productivity and service improvements.
• Oversee CAPEX/non-CAPEX projects, scale-up and commercialization, and support product launches and business growth.
• Develop and mentor process engineers, promote best practice sharing, and drive cross-site standardization.

Skills

Leadership

Process engineering

Project management

Lean manufacturing

P&L management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

Leads high-impact strategic process excellence team for Global Polymers. Collaborates with manufacturing plants and wide range of technical areas to drive improvements across Process Safety, Opportunity and Operational Cost, Productivity, Quality and Service. Provides advanced technical expertise in manufacturing operations, drives process technology transformation & innovation. Manages CAPEX and non-CAPEX projects. Manages scale-up & commercialization, supporting product launching and business growth. Leads and develop process engineers and technical team members across the region while promoting best practice sharing across the organization.

Additional Information:

Shift: Days, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

25% Travel.

This position is also eligible for bonus and long-term incentive compensation awards based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company's applicable plans.

Job duties include contact with other employees, operating heavy machinery, and access to proprietary information, raw materials, finished merchandise, and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and vendors.

The selected internal candidate may qualify for the GSC Relocation Adjustment Program.

Key Areas of activity

• Process Engineering & Improvement
• Monitors and Identifies value creation opportunities within manufacturing/operations
• Manages project pipeline and resource prioritization
• Leads execution of projects focused on manufacturing process improvement
• Support sites with reactive chemistry, process safety management, and coating manufacturing process expertise

Process Development & Innovation

• Manages process design with focus on advanced/new technologies
• Leads simplification for new and existing processes
• Leads introduction of breakthrough process technologies
• Define requirements and validate new process equipment

New Formula Introduction & Scale-up

• Collaborate with R&D and technical teams on new formula development
• Owns all New Formula Introduction to manufacturing plants
• Manages all process and formula changes
• Ensures process stability on industrial scale and coordinate hand-over to manufacturing sites

Quality Performance

• Drive quality improvement on manufacturing process
• Define and implement standard ways of working / standard operating procedures and conditions
• Ensures process capability to deliver product specification and performance
• Interface with wider quality organization within GSC and BU

CAPEX

• Support CAPEX project with process inputs/knowledge
• Support new equipment/line/plant start-ups
• Interface with engineering and other technical areas for best-in-class process solutions

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• 15+ years progressive experience in technical, process engineering and/or operations management
• Knowledge of reactive chemistry including resin manufacturing
• Must have prior experience managing Profit and Loss (P&L), and corporate financial acumen
• Must have PC skills including the ability to prepare spreadsheets and use Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Power Point and/or Access) to analyze data and trends.
• Must have previous experience/knowledge of coating or chemical processing
• Must have previous experience implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools such as Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, etc. to drive improvement.
• Must have demonstrated strong leadership, team building and people development
• Must have ability to work across sites and functions for standardization
• Must have Process Safety Management experience
• Must have CAPEX project experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Chemical Engineering experience preferred
• At least fifteen (15) years of progressive technical, process engineering and operations management experience preferred
• Green belt certification or higher preferred
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with a strategic vision preferred
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills across all organization levels preferred
• A strong ability to be adaptable and flexible is preferred
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills is preferred
• Ability to work with teams and lead decision making processes in a team environment is preferred
• Ability to drive for results, champion change and innovation is preferred