Plant Manager, Demonstration Plant

• ◆Lead plant commissioning, startup, and transition to steady operations, working with engineering, contractors, and equipment suppliers to resolve installation and performance issues.
• ◆Recruit, train, supervise, and develop a small team of operators and technicians, establishing clear responsibilities, shift schedules, and performance expectations.
• ◆Manage daily plant operations and experimental campaigns, including production scheduling, process optimization, and operating performance.
• ◆Lead operational safety, including equipment safety, lockout/tagout, hazard assessments, training, and compliance with applicable MSHA

and host-site procedures.

• ✓Coordinate activities with the host cement plant, including utilities, maintenance, site access, environmental requirements, and shared safety responsibilities.
• ✓Work closely with R&D and Engineering to execute test plans, collect accurate process data and samples, and translate operating results into improvements for commercial system design.
• ✓Establish preventive maintenance, spare parts, and equipment inspection programs to improve reliability and minimize downtime.
• ✓Maintain operating procedures, run logs, safety records, and equipment documentation, including updates to P&IDs and change records.
• ✓Manage operating budgets, contractors, consumables, materials handling, and sample shipments.
• ✓Track and report plant performance, including safety, throughput, energy consumption, reliability, and progress against operational milestones.

### What you bring

• ✓**Industrial operations leadership:** 10+ years of experience in cement, lime, minerals processing, chemicals, or related industrial operations, including direct supervision of plant personnel.
• ✓**Hands-on technical expertise:** Experience commissioning, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting industrial process equipment, particularly solids handling, thermal systems, and plant utilities.
• ✓**Plant startup experience:** Demonstrated ability to bring new equipment or production lines into operation, develop operating procedures, and establish reliable performance.
• ✓**Safety leadership:** Strong industrial safety record and familiarity with MSHA requirements, lockout/tagout, hazard assessments, and operational safety programs.
• ✓**Technical capabilities:** Ability to interpret P&IDs, mechanical drawings, operating data, and equipment documentation, with familiarity with PLC/HMI systems.
• ✓**Leadership and execution:** Ability to manage people, contractors, daily priorities, and technical challenges in a fast-changing industrial environment.
• ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent industrial operating and leadership experience.
• ✓*Especially valuable experience:** Cement manufacturing, continuous solids processing, first-of-a-kind industrial equipment, MSHA-regulated facilities, or experimental and demonstration plants. Familiarity with cement and SCM quality testing is a plus.

Don't meet every qualification? We welcome candidates from diverse industrial backgrounds who demonstrate strong technical leadership and experience bringing new technologies into operation.

This position is based at our demonstration plant in Stockertown, Pennsylvania, with periodic travel to our R&D headquarters in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. The role is full-time and on-site, with occasional off-hours support during commissioning and test campaigns. The position involves working in an industrial environment with required PPE and physical activities associated with plant operations.