Shift Supervisor

Purpose/Introduction

The Shift Supervisor leads a team of operators in producing products in a safe, reliable and incident-free manner.  Accordingly, the successful candidate for this position must possess a strong safety focus, comprehensive unit and job knowledge, leadership skills, positive attitude, and strong organizational and communication skills.  This position reports to the Operations Superintendent.

This position works a 12-hour rotating shift schedule (commonly referred to as the DuPont shift schedule), inclusive of nights, holidays, weekends and overtime, as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Safety and Compliance - The Shift Supervisor is a safety and compliance role model and leader. This individual is accountable for operation of the unit by following the "Tenets of Operation", EHS Procedures, Process Safety Management, ICARE Principles, Operational Excellence Processes and operating within the environmental permit requirements.
• Personnel - The Shift Supervisor is responsible for the development of a capable and effective team through training and development of each operator, the on-going evaluation of operator performance, maintaining working relationships among shift members, and consistent administration of plant and company policy.
• Operations - The Shift Supervisor leads the shift team to operate in accordance with operating plans and good operating practice.
• Maintenance – The Shift Supervisor leads the team to ensure that operating equipment is properly operated, monitored, maintained and readied for maintenance.
• Communications – The Shift Supervisor maintains open and effective communications on and across shifts within the department, unit leadership, other operating, functional support personnel and on-site contractors. This position must effectively communicate deviations to the operating plans and other work plans (maintenance, projects, etc.) to stakeholders in a timely fashion.
• Training – The Shift Supervisor is responsible for working with Training Coordinators to facilitate the training of operators on the shift. This individual monitors training activities and progress to ensure training activities are effective.
• Quality – The Shift Supervisor is responsible for ensuring product quality is maintained and quality issues are addressed in a timely manner.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum education of High School Diploma/GED
• A minimum of 5 years’ chemical and/or refinery manufacturing facility experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervisor experience
• Specialty Chemicals experience
• Control board operations (DCS board operations, control room operator, etc.) experience
• Experience with union or collective bargaining agreement facility