Job Title: Process Technology Manager - Performance Coatings & Lubrizol Life Science

Job Location: Avon Lake, Ohio

Job type: Full-time

Type of role: on-site

 

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 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Process Technology Manager - Performance Coatings & Lubrizol Life Science

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemicals market 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 Performance Coatings (PCG) and Lubrizol Life Science (LLS) Process Technology Manager, you will play a critical role in developing next generation manufacturing processes and high-performing engineering teams leveraging latest technologies, creativity, engineering, unit operation fundamentals, and contemporary development methodologies.

 

You will report to the Global Process Technology Director by supporting and leading key initiatives from Business Technical Plans (BTP) as well as strategic initiatives for the PCG and LLS businesses. You will lead a team of development engineers who will be responsible for the scale up of new products, raw material qualifications, third party manufacturing qualification, and regional localization support.

 

You will drive our Most Effective Technology (MET) process with focus on METPlus and Prime for PCG and LLS while partnering with global operations teams to achieve METBase performance. In addition, you will identify and progress global productivity and continuous improvement initiatives while tracking group value creation. 

 

The Process Technology Manager will be an established leader with the ability to innovate and improve process technology capabilities while building strong relationships. You will ensure a culture of commitment to safety and operational excellence within the Global Process Technology team, pilot plants, and labs.

 

You will support the adherence and application of program management fundaments for all activities where resources are deployed to ensure results align with business expectations (resource and priority allocation).

 

You will work with the global cross-functional team to develop effective partnerships and standard work practices to ensure we deliver on the potential opportunity as One Lubrizol.

 

What We're Looking For:

Team Lead

Manage a team of process technology engineers. Maximize their performance, actively support their career development, and foster engagement. Lead the hiring of new engineering talent. Work closely with the Process Technology Director by making the process technology’s purpose statement a reality, driving performance, and pursuing continuous improvement. Drive standardization and effectiveness of operational, technology development and transfer, and project management processes across all global manufacturing locations. Support global productivity initiatives and complexity reduction activities. Assist the team in developing MET dashboards to quantity performance, potential with investment, and improvement with development. Assist the team with implementing MET processes. Lead execution of projects while also understanding where insights gained can be leveraged elsewhere. Seek to find commonality as One Lubrizol and share best practices. Work with Lubrizol’s R&D teams for opportunities to enhance engineer capability through Digitization, AI, and Generative AI (corporate innovation). Work to elevate Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma competencies. Ensure an operationally excellent process for managing project portfolio, stage gate and decision making, resource planning, and risk mitigation and management. Manage the team’s scale up efforts by removing obstacles in new product development from lab, pilot, and to full-scale manufacturing. Collaborate with global project teams of scientists, engineers, and product managers for successful scale up and product realization.  Meet with commercial stakeholders to align teams’ priorities with business needs. Adhere to project intake processes to insist that all projects have a valid and documented business case. Participate in decision boards and growth program reviews. Execute Manufacturing Authorizations and hold team accountable for closure reports.

 

Deliver Results

Ensure excellent communication and foster professional relationships with commercial, technical, operational, sales, HSES, regulatory, applications, procurement, synthesis, product management, and finance leaders and teams. Provide regular reports and communications regarding pilot plant, lab safety, operating performance, project portfolio health, project status, and improvements delivered in manufacturing. Ensure 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.

 

Skills That Make a Difference:

Minimum Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university, or an advanced degree in Chemistry with significant chemical manufacturing experience. Ten plus years experience in process development or manufacturing. Knowledge of coatings chemistry, personal care, or polymerization chemistry. Demonstrated success in driving change and delivering results in a matrix organization. Record developing teams to deliver on their potential. Excellent communication and networking skills. Sound project management skills. Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills. Exhibit a continuous improvement mindset.

 

Considered a Plus:

Advanced degree in Chemical Engineering. Experience in Performance Coatings and/or Life Science Business. DMAIC or DFSS Six Sigma certification, green belt or black belt coupled with credible practical application. Certifications in project management.

 

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings Health Savings Account Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave Flexible work environment

Learn more at benefits.lubrizol.com!

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. Lubrizol is not staying put. 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.

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 race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic. 

 

 

#LI-EF2