Site Manager

TCL Specialties LLC

Proctor, WV

Pay: $190,000-$220,000/yr

Shift: Full time

**Company Overview:**

TCL Specialties LLC is a global Petrochemical, Fine Chemical & Food Ingredients manufacturing company. With a strong commitment to innovation, safety, sustainability and teamwork we strive to maintain operational excellence and deliver superior value to our customers worldwide. Our present investment is about 180 million US dollars in a green field site, which is at an advanced stage of construction. This is the first of three phases of investments planned at the same location.

**Lead the Startup of a World-Class Chemical Manufacturing Facility**

TCL Specialties, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd., is seeking an accomplished **Site Manager** to lead its new, world-scale chemical manufacturing facility in Proctor, West Virginia.

Thirumalai Chemicals is a publicly listed global chemical company headquartered in India, with subsidiaries and operations in Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States. The company is a leading global producer of maleic anhydride, malic acid, and fumaric acid.

As the Proctor facility approaches completion, the Site Manager will have a unique opportunity to build a high-performing organization, shape the site’s culture, establish operational best practices, and lead the successful startup of a major continuous-process manufacturing facility.

The Site Manager’s primary initial objective will be to **successfully start up the plant and achieve commercial production by the company’s established target date**.

**Position Summary**

Reporting to the CEO, Americas, the Site Manager will provide overall leadership for the safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operation of the Proctor facility.

This position will oversee all plant manufacturing activities and lead a multidisciplinary management team representing Operations, Maintenance and Reliability, Environmental Health and Safety, Human Resources, Warehousing, and Purchasing.

The Site Manager will develop the plant team and its capabilities to achieve world-class safety, production, reliability, quality, and cost performance. Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and global leadership, this individual will balance operational requirements, customer commitments, and the company’s strategic and financial goals.

This role is ideal for a seasoned chemical manufacturing leader with extensive operations and maintenance experience, strong process-safety leadership, and a demonstrated ability to lead a continuous-process plant through startup and into stable commercial production.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for all manufacturing activities at the Proctor facility.
• Lead the successful startup of the plant and achieve commercial production by the established target date.
• Establish and maintain a strong culture of safety, environmental stewardship, operational discipline, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental, health, safety, and process-safety requirements, including OSHA, EPA, and Process Safety Management requirements.
• Achieve established daily, weekly, monthly, and annual production objectives.
• Meet plant cost, quality, reliability, and operational-performance targets.
• Develop and implement strategies to maximize plant availability, equipment reliability, asset performance, and production efficiency using recognized global best practices.
• Lead continuous-improvement initiatives focused on safety, environmental performance, quality, productivity, reliability, cost control, and operational efficiency.
• Identify and resolve issues that could affect plant startup, safety, production, product quality, equipment reliability, or customer commitments.
• Build, develop, coach, and retain a high-performing team of managers, supervisors, operators, technicians, and other plant professionals.
• Serve as a visible leadership presence throughout the facility and act as a role model and mentor for managers, supervisors, and employees.
• Establish clear performance expectations and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and development to members of the plant leadership team.
• Develop and implement training, qualification, professional-development, and succession-planning programs for the plant workforce.
• Ensure products are manufactured and delivered in accordance with customer requirements and commitments made by the Sales team.
• Develop, administer, and monitor the plant’s operating and capital budgets.
• Partner with Finance to evaluate plant performance, identify inefficiencies, manage cost drivers, and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Human Resources, EHS, Warehousing, Purchasing, Sales, Marketing, and Finance.
• Establish performance measures and management systems that support data-driven decision-making.
• Maintain productive relationships with the site landlord, regul