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About INEOS Styrolution

 
INEOS Styrolution is the world’s leading styrenics supplier, with a high-performing portfolio of styrene monomer, polystyrene, ABS and advanced styrenic products. With more than 90 years of innovation in materials science, INEOS Styrolution is focused on customer satisfaction with differentiated solutions that provide a competitive edge as well as investments in technology that enable closed loop recyclability for styrenics while reducing our carbon emissions. INEOS Styrolution applications can be found in many everyday products across multiple industries: including automotive, electronics, household, construction, healthcare, packaging, and toys/sports. Operating 17 production sites in nine countries, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of INEOS Group Limited and employs approximately 3,000 people. Sales were 4.5 billion euros in 2023. More information: www.ineos-styrolution.com

 

Current Opportunity


Job Title
GPPS /STYX Production Leader   
 
Location
Altamira Site 

 

The position: Responsible for controlling and optimizing operations across two plants through safe process, asset management, operational discipline, and skilled personnel.  Ensure product availability with the right quantity, quality, timing and cost efficiency. Oversee adherence to service level agreements with planning, logistics, utilities, laboratory, maintenance, engineering, and on-site partners.

 

What you will do:

  • Fulfill and promote the company’s responsibilities, authorities, and policies, ensuring alignment with corporate guidelines and operational excellence in all activities.

 

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Plant Capacity Management: Ensure safe, timely, and quality production by optimizing plant capacity through effective allocation of human, technical, and material resources. Identify bottlenecks, coordinate maintenance, and collaborate with planning and engineering teams to maximize utilization.
  • Operational Efficiency: Drive resource optimization and reduce waste, downtime, and inefficiencies. Lead plant shutdowns, TAR and coordinate with intercompany partners. Monitor KPIs like OEE, energy and utilities consumption, raw material yield, and production costs. Promote continuos improvement initiatives and operational discipline.
  • SHE Excellence/Operational Safety: Enforce and promote safety standards, risk assessments, and compliance with corporate safety principles and audits. Responsible for asset safety at plants and related operations. Lead behavioral and process safety initiatives.
  • Operating Profit: Monitor manufacturing costs, manage operational budgets, and coordinate with controlling teams to ensure cost validation and profitability.
  • Equipment Availability: Ensure critical plant equipment is available and maintained according to KPI targets.
  • Staff Effectiveness: Provide daily leadership to operational staff (non-union and union) ensure competency development, supervise production operators, and oversee training and talent development programs. 
  • Laboratory Coordination: Manage service agreements with Quality Control Labs, monitoring product quality and output for plants.
  • Quality Management System: Maintain compliance with quality management systems, participate in audits, and implement corrective actions.

 

You will bring:

 

Level of education & knowledge:

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineer, Industrial Engineer or similar.

 

Knowledge:

  • Quality Management Systems.
  • Quality Control of Chemical Processes.
  • Quality Control and ISO 9001/19011/14001/IATF 16949/IEC 17025/GMP
  • Plant Maintenance

 

General experiencie: 

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in the chemical or petrochemical industry, with a strong understanding of plant operations, safety standards, and production processes.
  • At least 8 years of proven leadership experience in personnel management, and plastics transformation process and production.

 

Technical skills:

  • Resources planning & schedulling, operational safety & disclipline.
  • English advanced
  • Preferred SAP system management
  • Financial & Business Control
  • Office Tool Management

 

Competencies & behavioral skills:

  • Results-oriented, entrepreneurship, customer oriented, valuing and respecting people, reliability & accountability
  • Leadership & Team management, decision-making under pressure, problem solving & analytical thinking, effective communication, adaptability & resilience, continuous improvement focus.

 

Physical demands:

  • Frequent walking between two separate plant locations in the same site.
  • Walking, asset care and SHE area inspections throughout the shift and to approving permit works.
  • Climbing and descending stairs multiple times daily.

 

The Location:

This opportunity is located at the Industrial Corridor in Altamira, Tam.

 

 

We Have Great Chemistry


We believe diversity is perceiving difference; inclusion is valuing it. Without inclusion, we cannot unlock the value that diversity has to offer. Everyone has a seat at our company table. Our employees bring their unique selves to work daily, have a sense of belonging, and contribute to our core values. We have an inclusive approach, which is open and transparent. We respect and value diversity and believe in equality of opportunity. We do this by valuing and respecting cultural differences and welcoming diversity of thought and perspectives from all our employees.

We are excited to hear from you and share more about our organization.

Your INEOS Styrolution Recruitment Team

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