Shift Team Leader
Overview:
We are seeking a Shift Team Leader to support a 12-hour rotating shift for chemical production, leading 5-8 Process Operators.
Job Description:
The Shift Team Leader provides frontline leadership to chemical manufacturing operations and laboratory technicians, ensuring the safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation of the unit.
This role assigns work, establishes priorities, coordinates resources, and supports employee training, development, performance, and recognition. The Shift Team Leader also promotes procedural discipline, positive labor relations, and effective communication across shifts and departments.
Key Duties/Purpose of Role:
*Ensure compliance with site safety, security, environmental, quality, and process-safety requirements.
*Maintain working knowledge of OSHA Process Safety Management requirements, the Basis of Safety, operating procedures, and emergency protocols.
*Provide visible field leadership and address unsafe conditions, procedural deviations, and substandard work practices.
*Monitor unit performance to achieve production, quality, efficiency, reliability, energy, and waste objectives.
*Investigate and troubleshoot process, equipment, utility, and product-quality issues.
*Assign work and coordinate employees, materials, equipment, maintenance, and contractor activities.
*Lead effective shift turnover and maintain accurate operating records and reports.
*Ensure incidents, injuries, near misses, and environmental or process-safety events are reported and investigated.
*Ensure safe-work permits, hazard controls, and energy isolations are properly executed.
*Support the initial response to process upsets, releases, fires, utility failures, evacuations, and other emergencies.
*Coach employees, monitor training and qualifications, recognize strong performance, and address performance concerns.
*Administer company policies fairly and consistently.
*Participate in audits, risk assessments, incident investigations, and continuous-improvement activities.
Experience required:
*5-7+ years of experience in chemical manufacturing or a comparable continuous-process environment.
* At least two years of supervisory, team-lead, or equivalent leadership experience with hourly operations personnel.
*Experience with chemical-processing equipment, process-control systems, safe-work practices, and troubleshooting. (refinery or chemical manufacturing exp)
*Working knowledge of occupational safety, process safety, environmental compliance, and emergency response
*Experience in a unionized manufacturing environment is preferred.
*Experience with Microsoft application, SAP, Aspen products, or process-information systems is preferred.
* HAZWOPER or emergency-response training is preferred.
Education, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities required:
*Associate degree in a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience.
*Bachelor"s degree in engineering, chemistry, operations management, or a related field is preferred.
*Chemical Process Operator certification or equivalent technical training is preferred.
*Strong leadership, communication, coaching, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
*Ability to manage competing priorities and lead during routine, abnormal, and emergency conditions.
*Ability to work rotating shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, overtime, and emergency call-ins.
*Ability to work in an industrial environment and wear required personal protective equipment.
*Ability to walk, sit or stand for a minimum of 8 hours. May be required to move throughout production areas on uneven surfaces, climb ladders and/or stairs and be exposed to outside weather conditions for extended periods. Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
***All Qualified Candidates, please contact: Jake Zug ***
Phone: 302-324-9400
Email resume to: jzug@synerfac.com