Unit Production Specialist

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

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 Unit Production Specialist to join our Specialty Additives business at our Hopewell, VA location.

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

This position will report to Unit Operations Leader.

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

Leader - Culture change/developer


* Model and exemplify excellence leadership behaviors


* Develop shift team members to "Get our Good Day"


* Key input into Tier 1, 2, and 3 meetings


* Provide informal coaching/mentoring, create a high accountability culture


* Exhibit adhereance to stewardship and quality rules


* Provide feedback regarding policies/rules that don't appropriately fit operational capabilities


* Facilitate effective union/company relationship

Technical Assessor/Risk Evaluator


* Primary operational contact point for Shift Supervisors, Engineers, and Maintenance/Work Ex


* Provide key troubleshooting on process and / or equipment


* Coach / mentor operators for cross shift consistency and best practices

Coordinator


* Plan/Develop/Direct operational tasks for major process moves (ie SD, major product changes)


* Manage/facilitate contractors while performing work in the unit


* Act as the job contact for certain jobs

Operations/Maintenance Integrator


* Gatekeeper of initial work order entries - vet for validity, redundancy, minimum expectations, and process moves needed to execute - provide suggested scopes as needed


* Develop energy control and decon procedures - partner with Training to manage the system


* Utilize systems (ie drawings) to convey scopes and plans

Operations Scheduler - Developer


* Develop systems to consistently manage operations schedule, trainings, and ways of working

Operations Representative


* Operations rep for PHA, Project Reviews, MOC's, Task Force Teams, Outages


* Key communicator with the Operations Team on status of projects


* Provide occasional temporary supervisory backfill

Administrator


* Govern and develop adminstrative workflows within the unit and provide feedback/suggestions to needed participants on improvement

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:



* A minimum of a high school or GED degree


* 8 years+ working in a refining, chemical, or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment


* Proven leadership results, ability to connect with people


* High initiative and pro...