Senior Manager Chemical Operations

As a Senior Manager of Chemical Operations, you will ensure the long-term success of business by providing operations with processes, and behaviors to ensure efficient manufacturing of nuclear fuel. Lead efforts to deliver important improvement opportunities and develop systems to sustain continuous improvement process.

You will report to the Director of Operations and be located at Columbia, SC. You will support this role 100% on site.

• Embrace the highest standards for safety (all disciplines) and is a standard-bearer, ensuring their organization executes with a safety-first mindset
• Create accountability throughout the organization and urgently implement actions to close gaps in standards and results
• Focus organization on achieving and sustaining the highest standards of operational excellence in both behaviors and results. Intolerant of performance not meeting these standards
• Well-focused on understanding and preserving the product quality basis and how that translates into process control and execution
• Ensure an understanding and urgent correction of quality
• Ensure changes and improvements that impact processes are reviewed to ensure no adverse impact to product quality. Given the significance of the impact of quality defects in our product, is a visible champion in ensuring workers understand how their work activities impact product quality
• Plan, develop, and implement long-term strategic planning of the manufacturing goals, personnel development, and business objectives focused on adding value to the business
• Develop working relationships with peers with the full understanding the best interests of the facility
• Ensure effectiveness of operational systems; analyze financial, production, quality control, and other operational data to ensure operational objective are achieved. This includes all customer requirements, optimization of in-process inventories, and staffing requirements considering budgetary limitations, time constraints, and customer impact
• Guide an organizational culture of continuous improvement through the use of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles.
• Lead a sustainable continuous improvement organization
• Use policy deployment to ensure understanding of operational unit goals and activities with organizational goals
• Improve organizational performance by through use of metrics along with overseeing budgets and other important data needed to adjust strategies
• Create a performance based organizational culture that values employee engagement and inclusion.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, engineering or operations management
• Five years manufacturing operations, chemical manufacturing
• Ten or more years in a discipline related to plant operations
• Five to ten years of previous management experience required
• Experience with regulatory impacts and risks and ensures daily and long-term operations meet all regulatory commitments and needs,
• In-depth knowledge of advanced manufacturing principles including lean manufacturing
• Knowledge of general accounting principles and practices, and the reporting of financial data
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership

We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be $126,000 to $157,500 per year.

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