Site Director

**Vacancy Name**

Site Director

**Vacancy No**

VN311

**Department**

Operations

**Location**

Linz

**Employment Type**

Full-Time

**Company Overview**

Aurorium is the materials innovation partner that helps global manufacturers harness the power of possibility to make the world a better place. Their specialty ingredients and high-performance materials enhance quality of life, support health and wellness, and enable customers to deliver value-added solutions.

Key industries served include healthcare, personal & home care, mobility, infrastructure, and paper & packaging. A Responsible Care® company, Aurorium follows the highest regulatory standards across all manufacturing facilities. The company’s global integrated supply chain offers the customer product consistency, easy access, supply security, and reasonable turnaround on delivery. Aurorium is committed to operating at the highest levels of manufacturing consistency, quality control, and safety.

**Description**

We are looking for an ambitious Site Director and Managing Director to lead the site P&L and team to ensure that the product portfolio is manufactured to the required quality, yield, throughput, cost and in sufficient quantity to meet customer demand/business need, without compromise to health, safety and environment performance.

Support of the overall Austrian business in a leadership capacity across all other functions if required.

**Job Details**

**Role Specific Responsibilities**:

- Implements programs to ensure attainment of business plan for growth and profit with full accountability for P&L
- Creates and fosters a work environment conducive to safe work conditions and high employee morale
- Directs and oversees enforcement organization's personal and process safety programs and work safety standards to protect the environment, employees, and the company against harm
- Accountable for license to operate of the site from a law and regulation point of view
- Establishes a vision for the site and the development of a strategic plan in coordination with business and corporate objectives
- Defines and realizes the manufacturing plan short term and long term and tracks performance with relevant KPI’s
- Manages organization operations by directing and coordinating activities consistent with established goals, objectives, and policies
- Act as overall point of contact for Linz Chemical Park and accountable for compliance to any chemical park rules and regulations
- Manages several operational, technical and EHS & compliance work processes
- Maintains authority over budget and scheduling
- Meets compliance and reporting requirements and ensures completed work adheres to all local and national laws & regulations
- Accountable for the overall manpower & resource planning (FTE ~150, direct reports 5), work climate, competence development and performance of the manufacturing team as well as career development
- Conducts performance management of direct reports
- Drives profitability through control and leveraging of manufacturing costs, inventory, cost of goods, procurement initiatives, and vendor relationships, and use of automation
- Drives continuous improvement and operational management processes through the implementation of operational excellence principles
- Leads the long term and short-term asset planning, as well as execution of the annual capital plan (CAPEX)
- Leads and drives change processes and coordinates improvement projects / process changes (MOC)
- Draws up, implements, audits and improves the safety and quality management system (policies, procedures, etc.)
- Prepares and leads external audits & inspections
- Leads and drives sustainability initiatives
- Sets up and maintains relationships with relevant external stakeholders (local authorities, neighbor plants, partners & suppliers, regional networks, etc.), as a point of contact for the Site.
- Acts as liaison with other functional groups and business teams within the wider organizations to represent the plant
- Participates in Chemie Park initiatives and reporting structures
- Participates in the Chemie Park Emergency Response Team and leads the Aurorium Emergency Response Team on site
- Drive and support leadership across all other functions if required, acting as the main works council contact, as a senior leader for Austria

**Compliance**:

- Complies with company Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures and arrangements
- Reports all Health, Safety and Environmental accidents, incidents and near misses promptly
- Acts in a safe and responsible manner at all times

**Problem Solving and Innovation**:

- Active participation within continuous improvement activities
- Participates in problem solving
- Takes responsibility and ownership for own learning and development in the spirit of continuous improvement of both self and the business
- Assists in the training, mentoring and assessment of other team members

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Dem