Production Supervisor/Team Captain

Overview

The Team Captain is a frontline leader responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations. This leadership / supervisory role directly contributes to driving operational excellence (across safety, quality, reliability & engagement) with a key focus on people development. The goal of the Team Captain is to promote the right culture with visible presence and coaching the team to consistently set and achieve the highest level of excellence and world-class performance in all that we do.

• •Develop Talent: Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, and identify training needs. Build future-ready capabilities across process areas, administrative tasks, and core skills.
• •Team Performance: Foster a high-performance culture using tools such as recognition, coaching, feedback, mediation, goal setting, and disciplinary action.
• •Champion Continuous Improvement: Identify and address gaps in processes, systems, and reliability. Lead team initiatives to implement sustainable solutions.

• •Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Learning Facilitators, Stewardship Leaders, and Daily Execution Leaders to support team development and performance.
• •Facilitate Communication: Support SQRE meetings, manage shift handovers, continuity, and escalate critical issues promptly. Perform turnover with the incoming Team Captain to promote ongoing sharing of current status, information, and problem resolution.
• •Resolved Issues: Serve as the first point of contact for conflict resolution and troubleshooting. Resolve process and equipment issues within the team and escalate unresolved matters using defined protocols. “Close the loop”.
• •Difficult Conversations: be willing to have the challenge conversations when needed with the team at all levels.

• •Lead and Inspire: Motivate the team to meet production targets and SQRE objectives by setting clear priorities and mitigating risks.
• •Safety Excellence: Champion a zero-incident mindset through proactive hazard identification and consistent field engagement.
• •Contractors: Understands ongoing work, hazards, point of contact, and potential impact to process areas and people.
• •Operational Results: Deliver first-quality products on schedule while minimizing downtime and waste.

Move to the Core (MttC): Learn and promote Celanese MttC Operating Model in alignment with the organizational goals and objectives. Key focus on 4 pillars; Leader-Leader, Flawless Day Execution, Working from the Inside Out, and Operational Learning.

• •Demonstrates strong leadership presence on the floor, visible and accessible to team members and ongoing feedback on culture of the team.
• •Site will define KPIs to drive behaviors and measurement performance
• •Build a high-performing team with measurable improvements in results, skill development and engagement.
• •Effectively communicates priorities, team needs, constraints, status, and ensures seamless shift transitions.
• •Strong safety performance and proactive hazard identification.
• •Consistent production and quality results aligned with site targets.
• •Demonstrated improvement in team capability, engagement, and readiness.
• •High-quality shift handovers and effective communication across teams.

• +Embodies Move to the Core principles and exhibits Move to the Core Team Captain leadership behaviors.
• +Familiar with all areas of the Hytrel® plant (but not necessarily fully qualified).
• +Clear understanding of company policies and site policies and procedures, particularly the Cooper River Employee Resource Manual, Management of Change: Personnel, Training Progression, Shift Turnover, Absence Management Policy, and Overtime Policy.

• •Work a 12-hr rotating (4-4-3-3) shift schedule, which includes nights, weekends, and holidays.
• •Process area is non-air conditioned and requires wearing fire resistant clothing due to possible presence of flammable atmospheres.
• •Individual must periodically don specialty thermal protective clothing as some ta