Location:  Louisiana

Ideal Candidate:

10+ to 15 years of experience
Management Experience Required – 3 years
Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

The Analytical Services Manager role will provide leadership for the QA/QC function on the Site consisting of 5 chemical laboratories and an analyzer support team.  The Department provides Operations, Customer, Logistics Terminal and Business-level QA/QC and analyzer support and services for 6 Business Units operating on the Site. The organization is staffed with 60 employees (professional and non-professional).

The primary accountabilities, business goals and deliverables for this role are:

       Interact with multiple levels of Site, Business and Functional leadership in the support of Corporation’s and Business Units’ customer and quality requirements and objectives

      Translate service strategies and metrics into actionable measures based on Corporate and Business Unit strategies and service requirements

      Development and leadership of the AS function across the Site (as well as remotely supported Sites and 3rd party Terminals)

       Implement and continuously improve processes and systems for sustained compliance with FDA regulatory, ISO 9001 and Corporate Quality policies

     Continuous improvement of analytical efficiencies to the supported Operations and Business Units

BS Degree in Chemistry or Engineering

10 years direct manufacturing environment or manufacturing support experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a management role

Organic Chemistry proficiency

Process Unit Operations experience

Quality Systems (ISO & FDA) proficiency is a strong qualifier

Analytical Chemistry proficiency is a plus

Success in this role will also require a developed proficiency level in the following Global Competencies:

Analytical Thinking

Strategic Thinking

Communication & Interpersonal Understanding

Coaching

Conflict Management

Influencing and Impact

Leading Employees to Success

Entrepreneurial Action

Organizational Awareness

Customer Focus

Work Management

Change Management:

Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and implement change opportunities

Success in getting others to understand / buy into change initiatives

Project or Assignment that required leading change necessary for improving business, Site or Corporate processes

 Stakeholder Management:

Experience in successfully managing conflicting and/or challenging stakeholder relationships

Diverse Work Perspective:

Demonstrated ability to look across functional boundaries to identify and implement efficient work practices.

Location:  Louisiana

Ideal Candidate:

2+ to 5 years of experience
Management Experience Required – No
Minimum Education – Vocational
Willingness to Travel – Often

 This position is intended to provide Capital Project and Turnaround (TAR) scheduling development and management.  This position will set up and maintain schedules on large/complex jobs, provide oversight and direction to contract schedulers, and provide basic training on scheduling to project team members.  The services provided by this position, require an in depth technical knowledge of both the tool software and the scheduling and reporting work processes. Having accurate schedules that are properly managed, helps ensure project and TAR plans are in alignment with business targets.  An accurate schedule also enables contractor manpower levels to be optimized up front, which reduces cost.

Develop a detailed and optimized project/TAR execution schedule that links dependent activities and shows an accurate and integrated timeline for the scope of work (capital executed during the TAR, operational, and maintenance).

Perform job manpower leveling in order to identify and optimize labor resource requirements.

Update schedule and report progress during the project/TAR on a routine basis.

Generate predefined look-ahead schedules and ad hoc reports on an as needed basis, in order to provide day-to-day scheduling direction to the project/TAR execution team and the contractors.

Track and report on critical path activities in order to help the project/TAR execution team to determine proper prioritization of work.

Integrate project scope changes and/or TAR discovery work into the schedule to help determine manpower and schedule duration impact.

This position must have extensive scheduling experience (5 – 10 years) in a Chemical and/or Refining manufacturing facility. Sound knowledge of planning is also necessary; along with strong knowledge of construction and maintenance work execution for the different types of crafts.

A minimum of 3 years experience working with Primavera is required and experience with version 6 of this software is highly desirable.  

It is desirable for this position to have working knowledge of SAP.  It is also desirable for this position to have a 2 year vocational degree and/or construction/maintenance craft work experience in a Chemical and/or Refining manufacturing facility.