ChampionX has an immediate need for a Plant Manager located in Soledad - Atlantico. This is your opportunity to join a growing company offering a competitive salary and benefits.
What’s In It for You:
- Opportunity for a long term, advanced career path in service, sales, or management
- Access to best-in-class resources, tools, and technology
- Thrive in a company that values a culture of safety to include top-notch safety training and personal protection equipment
- The opportunity to drive impactful changes and shape your career within a dynamic and growth-oriented company.
- Support from an organization committed to fostering diversity, inclusion, and engagement to achieve collective success.
- Access to Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s), facilitating collaboration and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Utilization of multiple knowledge-sharing platforms to enhance collaboration and engagement across teams.
- Enjoy paid training allowing you to learn from successful professionals
- Comprehensive benefits package starting day 1 of employment.
What You Will Do:
- Follow safety policies to provide a safe workplace for all employees and supports the guiding principles of Goal Zero to continually improve the plant’s safety, health and environmental performance, security, design, development, manufacture, storage, marketing, distribution, use and ultimate safe disposal of chemical products. Drive culture of safety; Report safety observations / incidents
- Supports and is committed to the Quality Improvement Process. Plans strategies to ensure error-free work by “doing it right the first time” and conveys this attitude in the daily performance of various duties, in our drive for continuous improvement.
- Identify areas for process improvement within the roles and functions.
The Plant Manager is responsible effectively managing all functions of the local Supply Chain and developing collaborative partnerships with both colleagues and external stakeholders. They are responsible for delivering the agreed upon business results while maintaining positive employee relations. The primary accountabilities of the role include Supply Chain financial performance, plant production, Quality, SHE, labor relations, people, and organization development, and maintaining strong community relations
The Plant Manager is an effective and valuable member of the local management team, to ensure delivery of subsidiary business results. The Plant Manager works within a structure that requires considerable interface with Divisional and corporate management. The Plant Manager is responsible for ensuring that all functions in the Supply Chain are aligned with corporate goals.
As one of the visible representatives of the site, the Plant Manager also assumes a key role in developing productive relationships with the local community, vendors, and regulatory agencies.
Main Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the quality and productivity of the site, and its ability to deliver high levels of service to internal and external customers.
- Manages the people, materials, equipment, and business and manufacturing processes to deliver site performance objectives, as measured by corporate and local KPI's.
- Develops and implements local Supply Chain Margin Improvement Programs.
- As part of the local management team, interfaces and liaises with Division and Corporate headquarters to manage communication and information flow between the plant and external environment.
- Develops, implements, and monitors site operating budgets.
- Develops and implements strategic Capital Expense Budgets to ensure the long term technical and financial viability of the site's manufacturing processes and ensures alignment of the budget to divisional and corporate Supply Chain strategy.
- Accountable for adhering to ChampionX, local and governmental guidelines related to SHE, Quality, Regulatory and Code of Conduct/Ethics.
- Issues appropriate corporate communications regarding situation alerts, SHE & Quality incidents.
- Develops and aligns the local Supply Chain vision, mission, strategy, and objectives with divisional and corporate strategy and objectives.
- Implements SHE/TPM and other continuous improvement programs within the plant.
- Develops and executes appropriate communication strategy for the Supply Chain to support on-going achievement of the business goals.
- Develops and implements labor strategy for the plant in partnership with HR.
- Develops and executes a site master plan of the manufacturing and distribution facilities, as well as organizational capabilities, necessary to support future business growth.
- As part of the management team, the Plant Manager develops a crisis management plan, as per corporate guidelines.
- Builds and enables high performing teams. Empowers subordinates by way of training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals, and delegation, to ensure the development of people and organizational capabilities. Additionally, is responsible for developing and executing the site succession plan.
- Acts as a corporate resource, providing support on task forces, acquisition studies, and other major project support as needed.
- Accountable for the integrity of the business processes related to finished goods inventory replenishment, and new product introductions.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain management, or related field of study
- 8+ years of Supply Chain, Operations or related experience
- 5+ years of supervisory management experience
- No Immigration Sponsorship available for this opportunity
- Experience in CI methodology
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a chemical manufacturing environment
Physical Demands:
- Role is deemed safety sensitive and may be subject to employer or customer drug testing
About ChampionX:
ChampionX is a global leader in providing chemistry programs and services, drilling technology, artificial lift solutions, and automation technologies for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. Our world-class safety culture fuels our purpose to improve lives through our commitment to deliver sustainable operations.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At ChampionX, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every employee can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.
In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.