Manufacturing Manager

​​Salary Range: 135,000 - 165,000

Job Location: Wilmington, MA

Job type: Full-Time

Type of role: On-Site

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team as a Manufacturing Manager

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You’ll Do

Our Manufacturing Manager provides leadership to the Manufacturing teams on site under the direction of Business and Plant leadership. while collaborating with the Business and Plant partners to set production capabilities, production rates, and plat outages to meet our customers’ demands. Our Manufacturing Managers are also responsible for the plant assets, personnel and achievement of the plant related goals by providing performance management, coaching and career development to the manufacturing organization.

What We’re Looking For:

• Lead and manage a large Manufacturing team including Manufacturing Engineers, Shift Supervisors, Schedulers, and Training operators.
• Leads Safety Walks, 5S audits and housekeeping efforts for all manufacturing.
• Develops, optimizes, improves, and reviews procedures.
• Reviews logs and responds to unplanned events.

• Works with the Production Planning to optimize the long-term production schedule.
• Understands the Business needs relating to production and translates these Business production goals into plant production goals.
• Works with Supply Chain to ensure plant needs are met.
• Works with Engineering & Maintenance to determines shutdown timing and communicates to Production Planning.
• Assists in the development of the plant specific production data tracking and ensures plant procedures are in place to meet production plans.
• Works with Scheduler to resolve exceptions to production schedules, communicate with partners, facilitates the resolution, understands impact on customer and develops the plan of action.
• Ensures all changes in manufacturing are managed appropriately.
• Ensures production metrics/measurements are collected and communicated properly.
• Ensures effective measurement tools are in place to track production yields, raw material conversion and asset utilization.
• Coaches plant personnel on measurement tools and daily updates of performance records and business measurements.
• Completes the requirements of the Performance Management Process for identified personnel within Manufacturing including the plant goal process.
• Encourages all team members to develop and utilize a development plan.
• Creates an environment that fosters team and individual empowerment. Ensures effective and sustained organizational culture for Empowerment.
• Coaches plant personnel and personally participates to meet plant goals in HSES, Quality, Production and Costs.
• Ensures Most Effective Technology and specific Operating Discipline requirements are in place.
• Acts as a primary back-up to the Plant Manager

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Chemistry, or related science from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 8 year’s manufacturing experience
• Outstanding organizational and leadership skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven experience as supervisor or relevant role.
• Must have the ability to work well with others in a team environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel
• Transactional experience within SAP or other ERP system

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic. 

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