Company:

INEOS Aromatics

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees share in the ownership of the business and are empowered to make a difference?

ISBL PTA Shift Supervisor

Role synopsis:

The ISBL PTA Shift Supervisor is responsible for leading the shift teams in both PTA units at Cooper River. This role provides leadership and guidance necessary to the process technicians to ensure the safe, reliable and efficient manufacture of PTA.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

This position – and all positions – within the INEOS Aromatics organization requires that the incumbent commit to learning, following, and practicing the INEOS Aromatics 20 Principles of Process and Behavioral Safety as applicable to the position. Each employee must also commit to following the INEOS Aromatics Life-Saving rules and the site SHE Policies and Procedures including Stop Work Authority and Safe Work Guidelines on a daily basis.
This jobholder must lead, support and promote/drive adherence to the 20 Principles for Managing Behavioral Safety and Process Safety and the Lifesaving Rules.
Leads the safety effort of assigned team by setting expectations, participating, and leading SHE activities for their role. Some of these activities include Risk Assessments, training, incident investigations, Safety Observations, and audits. Completes corrective actions arising from those activities
Provides supervision and performance management to the operators on their shift
Identifies improvement opportunities and may lead implementation of solutions
Delivers unit operating plans and items assigned within the shift plan
Ensures equipment for maintenance is properly prepared.
Ensures constraints are proactively managed and the desired results are delivered on a daily basis.
Ensures product quality and production issues are adequately managed and communicated to affected areas
Identifies maintenance needs and appropriately initiates work requests
Leads quality shift hand over meetings, ensures accurate and complete logbook entries, and quality shift relief
Ensures all compliance activities for that shift are completed (e.g., Title V, LDAR, Control of Work, OE, VISIUMKMS, AAR etc.)
Works to assure that all personnel (INEOS and contractors) work safely on their shift including the safe execution of all maintenance work.
Ensure that all incidents are promptly reported according to plant’s policy and procedure
Manages unit’s abnormal operations (e.g., turnarounds, startup/shutdown, feed interruptions, etc.)
Interfaces with other Shift Supervisors, Operations Specialists (ISBL), Maintenance Supervisor, maintenance staff & technical staff
Responsible for unit vacation and overtime scheduling to ensure adequate staffing
Inputs technician time into Kronos timekeeping system
Ensure training progression is on track per G-007 and conversations are recorded utilizing the monthly training tracker
Responsible for ensuring training compliance for assigned shift
Identify team/individual specific training needs and requirements and work with Operations Training Coordinators to meet those needs
Helps support supervision coverage on off-shifts as needed

Skills & Knowledge Required:

Education/Experience/Technical Skill:

Must have been a Cooper River Process Technician that has achieved Tech 4

Behavioral Skills:

Safety Leadership - must be a safety leader and ensure that all safety standards are maintained by the shift team, intervenes to stop unsafe acts or behaviors
Organization - Effectively manages competing priorities; handles multiple tasks at once; organizes unit resources to meet unit objectives
Systematic Operation – Must understand critical elements to Safety and Operation and understand site procedures and practices to support delivery of the Operations Strategy.
Personal Interaction - must be able to work with and through others to achieve results and maintain a positive relationship.
Leadership / Pro-activity - must safely and effectively operate, troubleshoot, and optimize their section without direct supervision and significant oversight from other plant technical resources. Anticipates problems and takes appropriate action.
Conflict resolution - must be able to work with others to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner.
Technical knowledge of the unit - Has working knowledge of all phases of unit operation. Demonstrates technical competence of unit operations and the ability to apply knowledge in emergency as well as routine situations. Executes start-up and shut down activities.
Decision making - must be able to make effective decisions with available data in a timely manner.
Optimization - must be able to identify and implement improvement opportunities for the process.
Administrative skills - must be proficient in applicable plant computer systems.
Remain calm under intense pressure and acts in the best interest of the shift, unit, site and company. Gains the respect of peers (shift team members) and superiors and effectively influences others positively

Legal Disclaimer:

If you are selected for a position in the United States, your employment will be contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a post-offer/pre-placement drug test (and alcohol screening/medical examination if required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the information and qualifications provided during the selection process.

Safety remains and always will be our number one priority in INEOS. Our US locations now require all new hires to provide one of the following as a condition of employment:

• Proof of Covid-19 vaccination, or

• Willingness to obtain the vaccine before hire date (under this option, proof of vaccination is a condition to any offer of employment and must be provided prior to commencement of employment), or

• Validation of your religious or medical exemption

INEOS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance.On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.

Operations Shift Supervisor