Job Title: Sr. Plant Engineering Lead
OC Business Title: Sr. Plant Engineering Lead
Location: Russellville, AR

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5-7 years manufacturing experience required.
• Academic and/or practical knowledge and experience of materials science and extrusion processes strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or applicable field preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated success coaching and leading teams in a high employee empowerment culture, while training and developing technical skills in others.
• Managing and delivering results through projects and initiatives.
• Experience utilizing computer programs and Microsoft Office products.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Able to engage and care for others starting with safety.
• Leading and developing others – is mature, balanced and professional when acting to lead others. Able to lead and grow talent without direct authority. Skilled and confident when coaching and advising peers, leaders and primary employees.
• Quick learner – ability to learn concepts and new skills at a very rapid pace and apply learnings to the job. Can understand deep and complex concepts and troubleshoot problems based on abstract data.
• Collaborator – builds relationships easily with others and collaborates across leadership and technical networks to drive initiatives and results.
• Excellent communicator – written and oral, including presentation and training skills.
• Utilizing data and data collection systems. Able to utilize data driven problem solving methods for decision-making to eliminate manufacturing losses and unnecessary costs.
• Quality and detail driven; unyielding performance expectations of self and others in quality control.
• Achieves results fast, individually and through teams – can synthesize data and multiple points of view quickly and creatively to arrive at balanced solutions and has a strong bias for action.
• Understands deep and complex scientific concepts and can troubleshoot problems based on abstract data.
• Able to achieve results fast both individually and through teams.
• Takes business risks, grows from failures and celebrates success.
• Able to competitively drive results.
• Able to inspire and energize others.
• Excellent performance management skills and be able to differentiate rewards based on the performance of individuals.
• Ability to travel as needed. Travel will be heavier during start up as visit other OC plants to learn the business.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Sr. Plant Engineering Lead for the greenfield startup in Russellville, AR provides technical and business leadership in product manufacturing and product specifications. The Sr. Plant Engineering Lead interfaces across the technical network in the Foam Business to provide solutions to product manufacturing challenges as well as advances and innovation in manufacturing processes and materials. The Sr. Plant Engineering Lead is the subject matter expert on all plant process, quality, and raw material areas. The Sr. Plant Engineering Lead is a member of the Plant Leadership Team (NLT). As a member of the NLT, The Sr. Plant Engineering Lead helps develop and deploy strategies to meet business objectives.
Reports to: Plant Leader with a dotted line to the Director of Focused Improvement, Foam & Foamglas.
Span of Control: This position will be physically located in the Russellville Foam XPS facility and will have direct leadership over the hourly position of Quality Technician.