Production Manager

at  Nouryon

Sundsvall, Sweden Apply until: 19 Feb 2025
At Nouryon, our global team of Changemakers takes positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future.
We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward, champion others and work together to do better. Does that sound like you?

ABOUT NOURYON

We’re looking for tomorrow’s Changemakers, today.
If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team of Changemakers in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.
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IN YOUR FUTURE ROLE AS PRODUCTION MANAGER YOU WILL

Manage the production unit by providing competence regarding production, productivity, quality control, and process safety – with continuous improvement as the main driver in everything we do. You as Production Manager have 14 direct reports: Production supervisors, Production engineers, Planners/Schedulers and a Gatekeeper. You report to the Stockvik Site Director and is a key member of the Site Management Team.

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE:

• Responsible for the Surfactants production units and continuously improve productivity, HSE performance and quality performance.
• As a member of the site management team, contribute to the formulation of site objectives from a production perspective and ensure that site capabilities, constraints and HSE considerations are incorporated into the site improvement plan.
• Member of the site emergency response team.
• Lead an operational excellence agenda by coaching & teaching functional excellence in all areas while achieving sustainable improvement in the safety, reliability, productivity, quality of plant operations.
• Responsible for department budget, and production scheduling.
• Ensure compliance with Swedish legislation, regulations and the Nouryon standards and directives.
• Develop and drive change to continuously build and strengthen the HSE culture. Be a role model, act on deviations and immediately stop ongoing work if not performed in a safe way.
• Develop individual team members and build a team that collectively is capable of and fully involved in achieving the task.
• Responsible for the implementation of new product introductions, including evaluation of capability from a productivity as well as quality point of view.
• Manage human resources including but not limited to succession planning and identify talents with growth potential.
• Walk the talk by living the Nouryon values and working across functions and departments to drive the overall strategy for improved and leading performance within Health, Safety, Environment and Security.