About this role
<p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 25.65pt;text-indent:-25.65pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">ACCOUNTABILITY</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">The </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Songjiang pilot line</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Supervisor is accountable for providing leadership and management to the Song</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">j</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">iang </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">plant pilot facilities, including TPU reaction/ compounding pilot lines and PCG/LLS pilot reactor</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">. This role delivers daily operational guidance to pilot line operators and carrying out a strategic vision for the pilot lines. The Supervisor is responsible for coaching and developing the operations staff while providing mentorship</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">As a leader within the PT organization, the Supervisor will continue to foster a strong commitment to Corporate and Plant HSE initiatives, including Process Safety Management (PSM), and Leader Standard Work (LSW). As a part of the PT organization, this role offers an opportunity to draw insight into both manufacturing and commercial functions</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 25.65pt;text-indent:-25.65pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">RESPONSIBILITIES:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 25.65pt;text-indent:-25.65pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></u></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Convey and ensure Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) procedural compliance within the pilot line operations organization, including periodic audits of operations staff for safety procedural compliance (e.g. LOTO, PSM), organizing routine Leader Standard Work (LSW) walkthroughs, and ensuring environmental compliance with regulations.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Lead incident/near miss investigations happened in Songjiang pilot lines to determine root-cause(s) and implement corrective actions. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Keep improving pilot line facilities reliability by working closely with maintenance team to ensure good support on equipment and fixtures, monitoring the PM status for key equipment. Support scheduling of maintenance activities.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Develop and coach pilot line operators. This includes conducting annual reviews, career development discussions, safety and cultural discussions and providing timely feedback.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Manage the Songjiang pilot line schedule and communicate the priorities on a bi-weekly basis to targeted stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Determine bill of material needs and work with Procurement raw material sourcing team to procure raw materials for the pilot line.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Actively manage non-working, slow-moving (NWSM) inventory.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Supervise, lead, and execute strategic initiatives for the pilot line, including capital expansions, business processes, and organizational structure improvements.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Design processes, prepare engineering estimates, and coordinate capital projects on pilot plant equipment.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Communicate with technical and non-technical members of product development teams to understand and apply project needs for successful scale up and product realization.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Apply and maintain appropriate HSES systems associated with new chemical introduction, Management of Change (MOC), and Process Safety Management (PSM).</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Manage pilot line expense and capital budget and attend monthly budget review meetings.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Work with the song jiang Plant finance team to review monthly raw material consumptions, R&D material tax credits and budget deviations.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:9.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Generate yearly management feedback report which captures key measures of success.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">REQUIREMENTS – EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 23.45pt;text-indent:-23.45pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Education Background:</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or higher-level degree in Chemical Engineering</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">/</span> <span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Polymer Engineering.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Technical Skills:</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Previous personnel management experience preferred.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Very strong “hands-on” mechanically and chemically oriented process-engineering skills.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge of unit operations and process/equipment calculations and design.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Strong fundamental knowledge in chemical engineering principles with proven problem-solving abilities.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Strong project management skills utilizing stage-gate systems and job aids.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge of chemical and polymer unit operations, including process and equipment design.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge of experimental design (DOE) and data analysis using fundamental statistical techniques and statistical software.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Ability to work with others at all levels and in multiple locations within the organization.</span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience managing both internal and external customer expectations.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:10.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Other Experiences Preferred:</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">2-5 years of pilot or manufacturing operations experience, <u>required.</u></span></li> <li style="color:black;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Minimum 5 years of manufacturing operations experience, <u>required.</u></span></li> </ul>