Production Manager (F/M/X)
$342,400–$407,200 year
On-sitePaulínia, São Paulo, Brazil
Job Summary
Lead Solvents plant operations, managing production, new product industrialization, and toll manufacturing activities while delivering Safety, Quality, Cost, and business performance targets. Develop and execute industrial strategy, aligning plant operations, investment plans, and resource allocation with short- and long-term business objectives. Ensure operational excellence and compliance, enforcing company policies related to Quality, HSE, Product Stewardship, Human Resources, and maintaining the Solvents quality management system. Drive continuous improvement and asset performance, optimizing resources, processes, productivity, product quality, maintenance shutdowns, projects, cost control, budget forecasting, and process debottlenecking initiatives. Lead people and stakeholder management, developing engineers and technicians, fostering a positive work environment, resolving customer issues and special requests, and managing production cost efficiency and industrial fixed costs. This permanent onsite role is based at the Paulínia Site within the COATIS Industrial area.
Required Qualifications
- Relevant education degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering
- Proven experience in Production, Quality, Project execution, and Coordination or Management positions within the Chemical Industry
- Technical expertise in chemical engineering and manufacturing
- Solid knowledge of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat/mass transfer
- Advanced calculation capabilities
- Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams
- Leadership skills
- Communication skills
- Safety-oriented mindset
- Organizational skills
- People leadership skills
- Advanced proficiency in English
- Advanced proficiency in Portuguese
- Strong commitment to Safety First principles
- Strong collaboration skills
- Critical thinking
- Resilience under pressure
- Adaptability during plant upsets
- Effective planning and time-management skills
- Ability to effectively engage both frontline operators and senior leadership
- Challenging the status quo
- Improving operational efficiency
- Maintaining the highest standards of safety, ethics, and environmental responsibility
- Onsite working mode
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