Engineering & Science
This position is located at Bridgestone’s Bio-Rubber Process Research Center (BPRC) in Southeast Mesa, Arizona. This is not a remote or work from home position. The BPRC is a PSM regulated 24/5 continuous Pilot Plant facility for developing the processes necessary to extract natural rubber from Guayule cactus, producing samples for product testing and gathering engineering data for commercial scale-up. The role is not just a management role as this role has both management and technical responsibilities and at a high level the Operations Manager will:
• Be responsible for safe operations of the plant
• Manage the process team (Sr. process engineer, process supervisors and process technicians) to meet site goals
• Collaborate with and assist other departments (EHSS, maintenance, engineering, lab) and contractors to fulfill the above
• Assist/perform advanced process troubleshooting in the plant, experiment design & execution in the plant, process development & design
Pay Range: $122,200.00 - $195,500.00Pay Range: $122,200.00 - $195,500.00
Specific Responsibilities
EHSS & PSM
- Responsible for EHSS & PSM compliance of the process team
- Provide data to EHSS for reporting and compliance
- Lead, participate in and document risk assessments, PSSR’s, MOC’s, root cause investigations and HazOp’s
- Serve as an emergency contact for the site
Operations
- Responsible for generating production/sample/trial schedules and executing to the schedule
- Schedule raw materials
- Provide supervision and direction to the process team
- Oversee day-to-day activities within the process area
- Lead continuous improvement of production methods/procedures, equipment performance and team efficiency
- Manage process and/or equipment trials
- Provide input on annual operating budgets for the process area and manage to the budget
Collaboration
- Interface with the Maintenance department to coordinate plant maintenance and project work and to plan the annual shutdown
- Interface with Corporate Research & Development teammates to develop new products
- Provide input to scale processes from lab to pilot to commercial
- Provide technical input for capital projects
Leadership Skills
- Lead by example
- Lead via routine genba walks
- Demonstrate honesty and high integrity consistently to build respect and trust
- Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering
- PSM experience: MOC, PSSR, PHA, MI, SOP’s, root cause investigations, safety programs
- Basic understanding of process control logic – ladder and function block
- Five years operations management experience in a PSM plant
- Ten years overall experience in a PSM plant
- Process scale-up experience
- Must have good engineering technical skills
