Operations Manager

Company:

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

Organizational Context and Job Purpose

INEOS Organization:

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 15 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 65 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries throughout the world. INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Its businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, and medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

BUSINESS CONTEXT:

Ethylene oxide (EO) is an important building block for the preparation of a wide variety of EO derivatives (EODs), including various surfactants, as well as a host of other chemical intermediates including Glycol Ethers, Polyethlene Glycols, Ethanolamines, and Alkyl Alkanolamines. 

INEOS Oxide is one of the world’s leading producers of Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EODs).  We currently have a total EO and EOD capacity of 920 kta spread across five different production units throughout Europe and the US. These units have leading cost economics, due to economies of scale, state-of-the-art technology, strategic locations, etc. Our EO project in the US is targeting the fast-growing merchant EO market, building on our experience and leadership position in Europe.

Purpose of the Job:

The Operations Manager leads and manages streamline processes and enhances efficiency across operations, logistics, training, and MOWP (Maintenance, Operations, Work, Process) along with keeping safety as a priority and managing the budget.

Environmental Context

• Member of the Bayport Site Leadership Team providing leaderships in areas such as Production, Logistics, Environmental compliance, Safety, Training, Quality, and Administration, accounting, and maintenance.
• Responsible for the safety of all personnel at the site, budget management and creation, assurance of unit optimization as well as the identification and implementation of Advanced Process Control and business improvements as they relate to the Bayport facility
• Responsible for the coordination of operations between INEOS Oxide, our co located customer, external customers, and our suppliers.

Most Important Factors:

• While in an environment of conflicting and rapidly changing priorities, proactively lead all Team Members towards the achievement of safety objectives, business goals, and continuous improvements to meet or exceed the expectations of the Site’s performance.
• Delivering results in support of Safety, Health, & Environmental compliance, fixed cost compliance, and unit profitability.
• Effective utilization of all resources within the Team to best support the Business.
• Lead and ensure the career development of key personnel at all levels for the purposes of succession planning
• Interfacing with customers, both internal and external, to prioritize activities to reach performance goals.
• Reports directly to the Site Manager and serves as backup during absences.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Accountability 1: 

SHE

Most important activities:

• This position – and all positions – with the INEOS Oxide LLC organization requires that the incumbent commit to learning, following, and practicing INEOS 20 Principles of Process & Behavioral Safety as applicable to the position.  These Principles are posted throughout each Oxide facility and each employee must commit to following INEOS’ Life-Saving rules on a daily basis.  These are posted within each Oxide facility.
• Maintain safety as the highest priority of the plant by adhering to and upholding all safety policies and standards.
• Maintain and control the safe and efficient operation of the production unit using established operating disciplines and procedures. 
• Ensure achievement of safety and environmental compliance while understanding and enforcing principles and programs.
• Understand and support plant assets including protective systems integrity, operating envelopes, procedure adherence and accuracy, training and process hazards management.
• Directly lead PSM Program (Process Hazard Analyses review, Management of Change process, Risk Assessments) efforts
• Promote AsCare compliance and participate in and/or organize and lead site safety tours.

Accountability 2: 

Operating Plan and Targets

Most important activities:

• Deliver established production targets for Oxide businesses while continuously identifying and implementing process improvements.
• Deliver objectives in order to support business requirements and contractual obligations.
• Develop key metrics to monitor and optimize operating performance of all assets.
• Develop, support, and implement cost reduction strategies and improvement tactics.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance in areas such as:
  • Advanced Process Controls and Business Improvement efforts
  • Daily operations
  • Asset utilization and optimization
  • Best operating practices
  • Business planning/organization alignment processes and activities to improve manufacturing capabilities and performance
• Maintain high technical understanding of Amines process and serve as the primary liaison with Process Technology Manager (PTM)
• Interface with Maintenance to:
  • Set priorities that provide immediate and long-term asset reliability
  • Provide technical support to resolve equipment reliability issues that are problematic to the safe and continuous operations of the assets.
• Recommend capital projects to help meet company short- and long-term goals

Accountability 3: 

Team Leadership/ Stewardship of People

Most important activities:

• Provide guidance to and work with the Operations Superintendent concerning the management of direct and indirect reports.
• Determine specific capabilities and define developmental plans for individuals, as well as for the department, to address and overcome capability gaps.
• Develop and implement performance, training, and career growth plans for all direct reports and collaborate with Operations Superintendent for indirect reports.
• Maintain onsite visibility and accessibility as a member of Site Leadership.

Accountability 4: 

Budgetary Compliance

Most important activities:

• Develop the annual departmental operating budget for area of responsibility.
• Work with direct reports on the management of expenditure allocations to maintain plant reliability and asset integrity while adhering to annual budget

Skills/Competencies

Level of Education & Experience in general

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering, or similar relevant experience with Chemical Engineering being preferred.
• Must have a minimum of 10-15 years of chemical plant or manufacturing environment experience.
• Must have a minimum of 7 years of leadership/supervisory experience
• Proven track record of driving an organization and delivering results

Technical Skills

• Must possess strong process knowledge and have the capacity to learn and stay abreast of industry and technological changes.
• Robust understanding of unit operations and ability to apply relevant engineering principles below
• Robust understanding of Process Safety Management principles
• Relevant engineering principles include:
  • General chemistry
  • Materials and heat balances
  • Thermodynamics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Multi-component distillation/separation
  • Dynamics
• A foundational understanding of fixed and rotating equipment
• Knowledge of SAP for budget, work order tracking, and day to day accounting needs.

Behavioral Skills

• Must be comfortable interacting with employees at all levels
• Ability to lead change, influence outcomes, and provide coaching and consultation as needed
• Must possess keen attention to ensuring accuracy and follow up on unresolved issues
• Multi-tasking and balancing heavy demand
• Highly ethical, personable, team player, adaptable
• Proven leadership skills and business acumen – performance driven
• Strategic thinker with a clear vision and direction of world class change management
• Excellent presentation skills with solid communication capabilities and practices, oral and written
• Exceptional project management skills
• Works well in a team environment, with sound problem solving skills

ADA Physical requirements, visual acuity requirements and environmental conditions

Outside

Light Work:  Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions:  No effective protection from the weather.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions:  Activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold:  Temperatures below 32 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.
• The worker is subject to extreme heat:  Temperatures above 100 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.
• The worker is subject to noise:  There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards:  Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions:  One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin:  fumes, Odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.

Inside:

Sedentary Work:  Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

• Subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The employee must have the ability to see written documents, computer screens, and to adjust focus.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.   Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and make discriminations in sound.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Departmental Goals & Objectives ≥ 99%
  • Meet all departmental annual training and progression goals: individual and direct/indirect reports as defined in annual performance assessment
• Plant Production Goals
  • Meet or exceed annually
• Reliability Targets:
  • EO ≥ 98.5%
  • Glycol Ethers ≥ 98.5%
  • Glycol Refinery ≥ 98.5%
  • Acetates ≥ 80%
• First Pass Prime Targets:
  • EO ≥ 99%
  • Glycol Ethers ≥ 99%
  • Glycol Refinery ≥ 99%
  • Acetates ≥ 99%
• Mechanical Integrity Inspections (All assets) ≥ 100%
• PM Compliance on critical PM’s) ≥ 98%
• PM Compliance on non-critical ≥ 95%
• Regulatory compliance ≥100%:
  • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
  • ISO  (International Organization Standards)
  • DOT (Department of Transportation)
  • OSHA (Occupational Safety Health Administration)
  • TCEQ (Texas Commission Environmental Quality)
• IGGN Gap Analysis
  • Provided efficiently

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.