Chemical Operations Supervisor

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2025-11-01

Job Summary

The Chemical Operations Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of chemical production processes, ensuring that safety, quality, and production standards are met. This role involves supervising a team of operators, coordinating with other departments, and ensuring compliance with environmental and safety regulations. The Chemical Operations Supervisor plays a key role in optimizing production efficiency, troubleshooting issues, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential Functions / General Accountabilities

• Supervises the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, and shipping products or materials.
• Plans, develops, or implements warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
• Prepares or directs preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals.
• Issues shipping instructions and provides routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated.
• Confers with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control or purchasing.
• Responds to customers' or shippers' questions and complaints regarding storage and distribution services.
• Develops and documents standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
• Develop or implement plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design.
• Tracks and traces goods while they are on the route to their destinations, expediting orders when necessary.
• Interviews, selects, and trains warehouse and supervisory personnel.
• The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
  
  

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience: 3-5 years of experience in warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, or management
• Forklift Certified (preferred)
  
  

Skills

• Understanding of chemical processes.
• Basic computer skills.
• Basic math skills.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Critical thinking.
• Willingness to comply with safety and quality regulations, including wearing protective gear when necessary.
  
  

Work Environment

• Indoors/typical desk office environment
• Outdoors
• Warehouse
  
  

Physical Demands

• Physical requirements of the position include walking, standing, or sitting for extended periods, lifting heavy objects, climbing, crouching, operating tools, and wearing safety gear.
• Ability to lift 50lbs or more.
• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, obligations, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.