Batch Operations Area Supervisor

ISP Technologies Inc.

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Batch Operations Area Supervisor to join our Ashland Inc., ISP Technologies, Inc.

business at our Texas City, Texas manufacturing plant.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the safety and health function.

This position will report to the site manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Provide intense focus to ensure key activities are clearly understood by operators then executed according to procedures.  Provide coaching as needed.


* Work with area operators to optimize unit performance to anticipate unit issues then proactively resolve.


* Participate in review and update of operating instructions to ensure procedure matches practice.


* Ensure operator training stays on schedule, monitor key objectives, and identify areas of improvement.


* Assist in the training of new employees in the unit.  Ensure new employees are progressing as planned; then determine when employee is qualified to operate the area independently.


* Personally recognize, reward, and provide feedback for successful efforts of employees to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve work processes, then report via appropriate channels.


* Assess, and if needed, correct employee performance focusing on safety, environmental, quality and production initiatives and/or shortfalls in conjunction with the Plant Rules.


* Delegate tasks to operations employees, then follow up to ensure completion.


* Assist with the coordination of unit turnarounds and planned maintenance activities.


* Ensure good communication between departments and proactively prepare equipment for maintenance activities in advance.


* Support implementation of programs and procedures to optimize Production while continually improving processes.   Recognize the importance of product quality.


* Participate in Safety and Environmental initiatives:  PHAs, MOCs, safety work orders, 5S, and other continuous improvement opportunities.  


* Work with Operations and Operations Managers to establish annual goals and objectives for each of the production areas.


* Perform other related duties as assigned for ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the department.


* Review daily lab data and SQC data then make process adjustments to correct out-of-range parameters.


* Assist in process troubleshooting.


* First point of contact for unit operational issues.


* Ability to respond to cal...