ChampionX has an immediate need for a Plant Manager located in **Soledad - Atlantico.**This is your opportunity to join a growing company offering a competitive salary and benefits. **What’s In It for You**: - Opportunity for a long term, advanced career path in service, sales, or management - Access to best-in-class resources, tools, and technology - Thrive in a company that values a culture of safety to include top-notch safety training and personal protection equipment - The opportunity to drive impactful changes and shape your career within a dynamic and growth-oriented company. - Support from an organization committed to fostering diversity, inclusion, and engagement to achieve collective success. - Access to Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s), facilitating collaboration and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. - Utilization of multiple knowledge-sharing platforms to enhance collaboration and engagement across teams. - Enjoy paid training allowing you to learn from successful professionals - Comprehensive benefits package starting day 1 of employment. **What You Will Do**: - Follow safety policies to provide a safe workplace for all employees and supports the guiding principles of Goal Zero to continually improve the plant’s safety, health and environmental performance, security, design, development, manufacture, storage, marketing, distribution, use and ultimate safe disposal of chemical products. Drive culture of safety; Report safety observations / incidents - Supports and is committed to the Quality Improvement Process. Plans strategies to ensure error-free work by “doing it right the first time” and conveys this attitude in the daily performance of various duties, in our drive for continuous improvement. - Identify areas for process improvement within the roles and functions. The Plant Manager is responsible effectively managing all functions of the local Supply Chain and developing collaborative partnerships with both colleagues and external stakeholders. They are responsible for delivering the agreed upon business results while maintaining positive employee relations. The primary accountabilities of the role include Supply Chain financial performance, plant production, Quality, SHE, labor relations, people, and organization development, and maintaining strong community relations The Plant Manager is an effective and valuable member of the local management team, to ensure delivery of subsidiary business results. The Plant Manager works within a structure that requires considerable interface with Divisional and corporate management. The Plant Manager is responsible for ensuring that all functions in the Supply Chain are aligned with corporate goals. As one of the visible representatives of the site, the Plant Manager also assumes a key role in developing productive relationships with the local community, vendors, and regulatory agencies. **Main Responsibilities**: - Accountable for the quality and productivity of the site, and its ability to deliver high levels of service to internal and external customers. - Manages the people, materials, equipment, and business and manufacturing processes to deliver site performance objectives, as measured by corporate and local KPI's. - Develops and implements local Supply Chain Margin Improvement Programs. - As part of the local management team, interfaces and liaises with Division and Corporate headquarters to manage communication and information flow between the plant and external environment. - Develops, implements, and monitors site operating budgets. - Develops and implements strategic Capital Expense Budgets to ensure the long term technical and financial viability of the site's manufacturing processes and ensures alignment of the budget to divisional and corporate Supply Chain strategy. - Accountable for adhering to ChampionX, local and governmental guidelines related to SHE, Quality, Regulatory and Code of Conduct/Ethics. - Issues appropriate corporate communications regarding situation alerts, SHE & Quality incidents. - Develops and aligns the local Supply Chain vision, mission, strategy, and objectives with divisional and corporate strategy and objectives. - Implements SHE/TPM and other continuous improvement programs within the plant. - Develops and executes appropriate communication strategy for the Supply Chain to support on-going achievement of the business goals. - Develops and implements labor strategy for the plant in partnership with HR. - Develops and executes a site master plan of the manufacturing and distribution facilities, as well as organizational capabilities, necessary to support future business growth. - As part of the management team, the Plant Manager develops a crisis management plan, as per corporate guidelines. - Builds and enables high performing teams. Empowers subordinates by way of training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, appraisals, and delegation, to ensure the development of people and organizati