Operations Supervisor

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda – key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem's market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

Essential Functions

Functions that must be performed in order to fulfill Primary Function stated above include:

• Leading and managing his team to achieve the desired results in HESS, Quality, and Reliability.
• Interacts with varied groups of people; must have good communication, listening, and coaching skills.
• Hold people accountable for their actions and results

Responsible for HESS Compliance

• Actively support plant and corporate HESS safety programs, objectives, and expectations.
• Ensures employee compliance to all Oxy HESS policies and procedures.
• Ensures all training and qualifications are being performed and completed on-time
• Take a proactive approach in HESS by addressing concerns with solutions before they create a larger issue
• Leads a weekly planned inspection and tracks the action items to completion.
• Leads or participates in all safety meetings.  This includes the monthly safety meeting, quarterly contractor safety meeting, and the safety committee meeting
• Complete all action items by the due date and close them out in Intelex
• Maintain a high standard of housekeeping in the plant.
• Keep the plant audit and visitor ready.
• Ensures certain compliance inspections and Title V requirements are met

Responsible for Quality

• Actively support plant and corporate quality programs, goals/objectives, meetings, and expectations.
• Participate or lead the investigation all CAR events and ensure they are completed on time.
• Take a proactive approach in Quality by addressing concerns with solutions before they create a larger issue
• Monitor overall system for quality and equipment functionality issues.
• Supports the Food Safety Program and Quality Program. Adheres to FDA requirements.

People Development

• Utilizes plant resources with working knowledge of the process to direct, coach, and enhance the technical capabilities of the teams by sharing experiences, technical skills and knowledge. 
• Shows initiative, leadership, and coaches others and utilizes skills, knowledge, and experience to maximize individual and team performance.
• Ensures employees clearly understand role responsibilities and personal performance expectations.  Challenges plant personnel to identify performance gaps and make appropriate adjustments to achieve optimal performance.
• Enhances front line skills and knowledge through directing operations personnel and coaching on process, equipment, engineering, etc.
• Improve and facilitate training program aimed at optimizing employee skills required to perform critical and routine activities and tasks
• Responsible for overall development and performance of direct reports, and cultivating and building a self directed team culture.

Drive Improvement

• Utilizes process knowledge, technical expertise, and operations experience to assist in correcting process or equipment issues and improving process performance and reliability. 
• Identifies areas for improvement and networks with technical resources to identify Most Effective Technology.
• Ensures Operating Procedures are current, appropriate for best practices, understood and followed.

Process Support and Management

• Directs and coaches plant personnel to resolve technical operation issues.  Performs or assists in process-related root cause or failure analysis.
• Technical and process subject matter resource in the individual’s area of expertise.
• Enhances front line skills and knowledge through directing operations personnel and coaching on process, equipment, engineering, etc.
• Identifies areas for improvement and networks with technical resources who are identifying Most Effective Technology.
• Creates, leads, and assists improvement teams; and performs with expertise centers on issues relating to their area of expertise (ie. work with reliability engineer to resolve mechanical reliability issues).
• Participates as required in product stewardship audits and customer visits.  Provides support to addresses and resolve customer needs.
• Ensures work notifications are value adding and align with the Business, Function, Site, and Plant goals.  Ensures work requests are clearly defined, scheduled and completed.
• Ensures all tasks are reviewed on an annual basis to determine Business, Function, Site, and Plant goal alignment, value, size, and role alignment.
• Determines if plans are required for work notifications and coordinates resources for plan development.  Determines adequacy of Operating Discipline procedures and plans for new service requests.
• Coordinates work orders to be performed by operations personnel (ie. timing and scheduling of process equipment preparation and maintenance with the Maintenance Planner)
• Ensures appropriate resources are allocated to perform tasks and activities.
• Updates and adjusts the OTS task lists to schedule plant activities, and ensures it is the source for all plant activities that impact operations.  Ensures Startup and Shutdown tasks align with plant operations activities.
• Updates or creates new Operating Discipline procedures to fill gaps in the area work process. Monitors compliance of established procedures
• Put together and send out the Mon – Thurs report
• Review and approve work notifications.  Communicate priority of work orders.
• Participate in outage planning, capital planning, yearly plan processes.

Logistics and Shipping Management

• Directs and coaches plant personnel to resolve technical operation issues.  Performs or assists in process-related root cause or failure analysis.
• Understands the schedule and communicates it to his team
• Coordinates with his team and the railroad to schedule switches
• Coordinate with site supply chain and production personnel to communicate loading, packaging, and warehouse demand to help facilitate daily, weekly, and monthly personnel scheduling
• Responsible for the coordination of all area activities including loading, packaging, rail, site services, and warehouse activities.  Ensures appropriate resources are allocated to perform tasks and activities.

Business and Demand Team Support

• Attends twice weekly planning meeting and provides information to the Demand Planner and Business Team.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED with a minimum of 10 years’ experience as a manufacturing supervisor, or an Engineering degree with at least 3 years of supervisory experience in manufacturing
• Do you have a strong understanding of plant and maintenance processes
• Do you have good working knowledge of SAP

The salary range for this position is:$ 108,000 - $ 148,500 Annual

Check out Oxy’s competitive benefit package: http://www.oxy.com/siteassets/documents/careers/oxy-employee-benefits-program-2025.pdf.

The Company anticipates that it will accept applications for this position for 14 days after the posting date, although it may extend that date depending on applicant flow.

Recruitment Fraud

It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.

Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:

•  Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees

•  Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or

•  Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.

We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.