Plant Engineering Manager, Batch Chemical Manufacturing in a Brand-New, Fast-Scaling Plant

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A publicly traded global manufacturer of specialty chemicals and advanced electronic materials is racing to scale a breakthrough materials platform that powers the AI, electric-vehicle, datacenter, and semiconductor boom, a genuine first-to-market technology with a capital program of more than $150M behind it. A newer, higher-throughput site is coming online, and you own its technical direction as it is commissioned and scaled: the engineering strategy, process optimization, and equipment that turn a build into a running, improving plant.

• You want to commission and scale a new site's engineering from the ground up, not optimize a mature line

• You are energized, not unnerved, solving problems hands-on around reactive and hazardous chemicals (flammable solvents, corrosives) in a process-safety-first operation

• You wear many hats, flex day to day, and set the engineering standards as you go

• You move with urgency and get on the floor to fix things yourself

• You want to be on the cutting edge of a material the world has not made at this scale before

• If you want an established plant with mature, fully-documented processes, this is not your role

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• Set and drive the site's technical strategy alongside operations and growth goals

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to solve complex engineering and production problems

• Drive process improvements across safety, quality, throughput, and cost

• Oversee design, commissioning, and implementation of manufacturing processes, equipment, and tooling

• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action on critical and recurring failures

• Support capital projects from planning and budgeting through execution and validation

• Mentor engineering talent and build the site's engineering standards from scratch

• Partner across engineering, R&D (research and development), and sister sites to standardize best practices

• 8 to 12+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated leadership

• Manufacturing experience, preferably high-volume; batch chemical manufacturing preferred

• Comfort solving problems hands-on in a hazardous-chemical, process-safety-driven environment

• Strong command of manufacturing processes, equipment, and reliability and maintenance strategy

• Continuous improvement depth (Lean, Six Sigma)

• Bachelor's in engineering (mechanical, chemical, industrial, or related); Master's preferred

• Base salary $128,636 to $192,954, plus a performance bonus

• Strong 401(k) match plus an additional company contribution, an employee stock purchase plan, medical with an employer health savings account (HSA) contribution, company-paid life and disability, and generous paid time off (PTO)

Based on-site in West Haven, CT.

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