Site Manager

PQ is a leading global provider of silicates, silicas and derivative products. PQ’s products are used in a wide variety of industrial processes and many customer products, from decorative paints to green cement, from clean drinking water to green tires and from toothpaste to biofuels and beer.

The Site Manager is responsible for managing and leading a critical Manufacturing Site in the U.S.

Reporting to this position is a management team of four covering Maintenance and Operations. In addition, this position will be first amongst equals, leading and facilitating collaboration amongst the other sites in North and South America.

The incumbent will be accountable for aligning operational people, processes, measurements, standards, capital, and resources with the primary focus areas of HSE, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity against Functional, Business and Company goals and objectives. The incumbent is responsible for fostering an organizational culture of safety, integrity, continuous improvement, ownership, diversity, and accountability while developing a strong bench of operational know-how, experience, and talent.

Work with the organization to ensure safe and beneficial operations of the Site that achieve annual functional, business and company goals and objectives.

• HSE
  • Responsible for the HSE Leadership and results; driving to Zero OSHAs incidents, 100% regulatory compliance.
  • Collaborate with the Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental functions to implement policies and maintain compliance for external and internal requirements.
• Leadership
  • Lead the team to be a world-class, customer-centric team, motivating and leading the team in the framework of a Manufacturing & Business strategy to improve overall performance KPIs.
  • Participate as a critical member of the Operations Leadership Team
  • Be the First amongst equals for the sites in the North and South America, working to ensure alignment, teamwork, and optimized operations.
• Continuous Improvement / Manufacturing Excellence
  • Lead continuous improvement culture and systems across all plants to ensure and improve quality, productivity, reduce fixed and variable costs (raw material usage) and improve all aspects of OEE, through the implementation and use of Lean tools and practices.
  • Lead continuous improvements by identifying process gaps related to quality (Voice of the Customer and Critical to Quality), sustainability, manufacturing, administrative processes, and procedures, implementing viable sustainable solutions.
  • Improve asset capability while optimizing efficiencies, yields, cost reliability, maintaining or exceeding current quality standards
  • Implement measures, systems, and processes that track KPIs; utilizing visual management to keep the organization focused and motivated.
• Develop and use Improvement Plans to implement improvement projects and activities.
• Cost and Production
  • Directly responsible for managing the annual budgeting process, aligning with the business financial goals and targets.
  • Directly responsible at Joliet for achieving the operational cost goals and objectives, approx. $11M-$13M fixed cost budget and $20M-$23M in variable cost
  • Collaborate with the other NA sites to help drive best practice, budgetary control, and operational cost goals to meet $SM – $SM of Fixed Cost and up to $15M of Variable Cost targets
  • Work closely with the Business, and finance to analyze cost results, understand detail and to deliver forecasts to the function and the business
• Develop manufacturing strategies that maintain high seivice levels while minimizing on hand inventory
• Minimize obsolete inventory by measuring and controlling aging inventory and collaborating with sales to manage risks
• Supply Chain
  • Ensure proper coordination of all people1 processes, and materials to achieve company objective of year over year On-Time and In-Full delivery.
  • Work with the business to optimize the network while minimizing, optimizing regional production assistance, and achieving business inventory targets.
  • Participate directly in the supply chain process, including strategic and tactical capacity planning and the execution.
• Human…