Technical Engineering Quality Manager

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people's lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.

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Why work at AdvanSix?

• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being
• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development
• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences

Position Summary: The Technical Engineering Quality Manager is responsible for leading a highly trained team of engineers and driving continuous improvements in processes and production as well as managing all aspects of the Plant Quality System.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers as well as lab personnel to drive sustained improvements in safety, attainment, yield, quality, and cost through daily production support, non-capital process optimizations and improvements and process engineering for capital upgrades.
• Manage OSHA-PSM elements including management of change, pre-startup safety review, standard operating procedures, incident investigation, and process hazards analysis
• Manage production optimization and process troubleshooting
• Process design of capital improvements
• Mentor and coach junior engineers
• Lead ISO registration activities and guide compliance to ISO standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across the site.
• Responsible for supplier contacts for vendor certifications and customer contacts for complaint investigations.
• Serve as lead contact and coordinator for customer satisfaction issues.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in chemical or mechanical engineering
• Six Sigma and/or Lean certification preferred
• 10+ years of experience in production, process and/or manufacturing engineering within the chemical, petroleum, or polymer industrial manufacturing environments
• 2-3 years of experience in engineering or manufacturing leadership strongly preferred

Additional Qualifications:

• Proven history of delivering productivity through non-capital improvements and capital projects of all sizes
• Deep experience in the fundamentals of production optimization and process design.
• Strong process and mechanical troubleshooting experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills enterprise
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels of an organization.
• Strong computer skills, including process monitoring and process simulation and design.

The base salary range for this role is $108,000 to $162,000 annually.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include periodic pay rate adjustments based on market competitiveness. Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match. Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary financial benefits such as incentive pay, equity awards, and participation in a deferred compensation plan.

Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages.

The pay range, incentives and benefits listed above are general guidelines only and not a guarantee of total compensation or benefits. The final offer will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, the responsibilities of the job, experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as the job location, applicability of a collective bargaining agreement, length of service, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on your role, business results and individual performance. All aspects of total rewards offered are subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.

At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past work experience doesn't perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.