GLOBAL PROCESS TECHNOLOGY DETERGENTS TEAM LEADER

About Lubrizol   The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.
Founded in , Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about employees.
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Job type.
Full-Time Type of role.
On-Site Locations.
This position can be based everywhere in the globe where we have faciltities.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Global Process Technology Detergents Team Leader! Unleash Your Potential.
At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey.
If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do.
Lubrizol’s process technology team reimagines what is possible, delivering safe and sustainable solutions to drive business value and create a competitive advantage.
As the Global Process Technology Detergents Team Leader, you will play a critical role in developing next generation manufacturing processes and high-performance engineering teams leveraging latest technologies, creativity, engineering and unit operation fundamentals and contemporary development methodologies.
You will drive our Most Effective Technology (MET) process with focus on best-in-class technology, METPlus and Prime for Detergents while partnering with global operations teams to maximize METBase performance.
In addition, you will identify and progress global productivity and continuous improvement initiatives.
You will lead the process scale up of new products and provide Raw Material Qualification, Tolling and Regional Localization support.
An effective candidate for this role should have a good working knowledge of neutral and over-based detergent chemistry and basic processing knowledge.
You will attract and develop the next generation of process development engineers and support the adherence and application of program management fundaments for all activities where resources are deployed to ensure results align with business expectations   What We're Looking For.
Leads the Global Detergent Process Technology team.
Work with global business and operations teams to align on process technology and productivity initiatives.
Manage engineering team and cross-functional engagements to achieve business objectives.
Make the Process Technologies purpose statement a reality, driving performance and continuous improvement.
Identify technologies, partnerships, methodologies to simulate our thinking, elevate our practices, accelerate learning to enable step changes in performance.
Drives standardization and effectiveness of best practice operational, technology development and transfer, and project management processes across all global detergent manufacturing locations.
Develops and Implements Most Effective Technology Processes and Lead Global Productivity initiatives.
Partner with R&D and 3rd parties to develop METPlus and Prime pipelines, state of the art process technologies and fundamental process capabilities.
Develop MET dashboards, Metrics/KPIs to quantity performance, potential with investment and improvement with development.
Deliver identified value in MET dashboard available by upgrading facilities.
Identify technologies required to pilot process improvements and partner with broader Manufacturing Technology teams to secure equipment necessary and pilot process to enable accelerated learning.
Lead scale-up activities with special focus on generating required data confirming product and process quality and capability.
Embrace Lean and Design for Six Sigma initiatives to ensure data driven and systematic approaches to driving improvements and especially that effective controls are implemented to maintain gains.
Lead product and process FMEAs to ensure effective management of risk, ensuring all process risks and operator health and safety risks are mitigated during lab, pilot plant and plant work.
Accountable for compliance and execution of Technology License Agreements with external partners as appropriate.
Partner with plant operations to create an effective process to surface and prioritize global productivity and continuous improvement opportunities.
Lead execution of focus projects while also understand where else insights gained can be leveraged elsewhere.
Develops 21st Century Engineer global engineering team to enable accelerated learning and business results.
Work with Lubrizol’s R&D teams for opportunities to enhance engineer capability through Digitalization, AI and Generative AI Work to enhance member and teams’ creativity and agility through development of effective brainstorming skills.
Foster lean start-up thinking and team mindsets with focus on minimally viable product and effective build, measure, learn cycles of learning.
Drive superior teaming and facilitation skills ensuring desired stakeholder experiences Ensure team are grounded in core engineering fundamentals, core unit operation expertise and engineering skills and risk assessment (FMEA) Work to elevate Six Sigma competencies to include Process Mapping, Measurement System Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Process Capability/Control Charts, Multi-variate analysis/Components of Variation, Design of Experiments, House of Quality and Statistical Tools Ensures high competency and demonstrated proficiency in applying first principles of chemistry and engineering, formal and organized problem solving, application of statistics and design of experiments, project management and execution, and technical documentation and report writing.
Lead the hiring and development of Engineering talent.
Provides Manufacturing Plant Support.
Work to support and ensure operations team are achieving global METBase performance standards.
Supports localization efforts as required.
Skills That Make a Difference.
Bachelors of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university 7+ years of experience in chemical process development and manufacturing.
Knowledge of neutral and over-based detergent chemistries and manufacturing processes.
Demonstrated success in driving change and delivering results in a matrix organization.
Experience leading and influencing teams to deliver on their potential.
Excellent communication and networking skills.
Sound project management skills.
Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills.
Exhibits a continuous improvement mindset.
Considered a Plus.
Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Colloid Science or Chemistry.
Subject matter expertise in neutral and over-based detergent chemistries, including chemistry, manufacturing processes, and unit operations.
DMAIC or DFSS Six Sigma certification, green belt or black belt Certifications in project management (e.
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PMP)   Perks and Rewards That Inspire.
Develop your professional career with a highly respected, industry-leading, multinational company that is part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Become part of a culture that is based on accountability and empowerment and which values diversity and inclusivity.
A competitive remuneration and benefits package    #LI-MC1     Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol.
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We are continually learning and evolving.
Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day.
our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do.
The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect.
That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.
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