Technical Manager

About Us

Ambercycle is a materials company founded in 2015 to create a circular supply chain for the apparel industry, making decarbonized raw materials across industry verticals. We're doing this by developing and deploying new technologies to increase the scope and scale of regenerated materials in the global apparel supply chain, and reduce the use of raw agricultural and petroleum resources. Our products avoid the use of new raw materials and go into the highest quality applications, exceeding the expectations of end customers with a fraction of the environmental footprint. Our success is the result of the talent, curiosity, and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to realize our vision to improve humanity’s relationship with the material world. Visit ambercycle.com to learn more.

Overview

This role will be critical to the engineering of our flagship commercial project during the design and construction phase as well as serve as the technical leader during operations of the plant. You will work in collaboration with the Operations Manager, Project Director, EPC company, and various vendors to ensure successful project execution as well as technical excellence of the plant during startup and continuous operations. The role will be based in Jakarta for the beginning of the EPC phase and then will transition to the project site at Gresik, East Java, Indonesia for startup and operations.

The Job

You will lead, set priorities, and motivate engineers/technicians to achieve or exceed company objectives, especially in the areas of safety, gross margin improvement, operational expense reduction, reliability, and product quality. This involves monitoring plant units, troubleshooting, making modifications to improve performance, equipment monitoring, and providing guidelines for proper operation to enhance fixed and rotating equipment reliability. You will provide technical support to all departments, offering lab test services, ensuring product quality meets customer specifications, and continually improving the plant to boost performance. 

Responsibilities

Quality Workforce

- Provide training and development for Managers and Engineers on safe design and process evaluation of the units, equipment, and facilities.

- Provide performance feedback of Managers and Engineers at least biannually.

- Review and adopt Best Practices to improve unit performance.

- Train and develop anchor technical positions to support AC to be less reliant on third-party engineering companies.

- Evaluate the competency level of engineers and formulate a plan to close the gap.

- Evaluate QA/QC engineers/technician inspection reports and plan the next turnaround activities.

Operations

- Provide technical support to Operations on plant optimization, energy management, raw materials usage, plant modification/addition, equipment inspection/protection, product qualities, production rate, storage and blending, and cargo discharge/loading.

- Work closely with Maintenance and provide guidelines on all methods of monitoring, inspecting, and repairing fixed and rotating equipment to meet the highest international industry practices and in accordance with manufacturing specifications and tolerances.

- Provide technical support to Operations during plant upset and plant emergency.

- Provide technical support for HAZOP study of plant modification and vapor relief load.

- Provide technical support to Operations for the evaluation of equipment/unit to ensure operation is safe and environmentally sound.

Environment, Health, Safety, and Quality

- Work closely with the SHE department on safety and environmental matters to ensure all work is carried out safely. 

- Communicate and enforce AC’s policies and safety regulations.

- Follow up on Corrective Action Report (CAR) and implement recommendations.

- Ensure all work is carried out safely.

- Monitor product quality and work with Operations to resolve any product and feed quality issues.

- Monitor the effectiveness of energy conservation and yield optimization programs and revise guidelines if required to achieve program objectives.

Project Phases

- Manage and oversee the entire project from EPC phase through the operations phase, including all aspects of engineering, procurement, construction, operating manuals, training, leadership, project commissioning, post-commissioning, and operations reliability. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, polymer engineering, or mechanical engineering.
• 20+ years of experience in the petrochemical, polymers, or specialty chemicals industries.
• Experience in implementing and operating a complex project in the petrochemical or polymer industry.

Preferred Qualifications

• Effectively communicates to all employees in a manner that promotes understanding, commitment, and teamwork.
• Listens effectively, is skillful at one-on-one counseling, and values abilities and contributions of all people.
• Willingly accepts accountability for results.
• Empowers people, inspires commitment to promote teamwork, leads by example, and sets high standards.
• Upholds project and plant safety and environmental standards. 
• Is enthusiastic about scaling up a first of a kind decarbonized technology. 
• Demonstrates integrity, inspires trust, builds consensus, and respects others and their ideas.
• Shows enthusiasm and unwavering passion to do the right thing.
• Strives for continuous improvement as well as takes initiative and ownership.
• Develops and releases employees for training and development.
• Rewards performance and is firm with non-performers.
• Encourages cooperation and shares knowledge and best practices openly.
• Shows concern for effectiveness and takes and supports calculated risks.
• Has diverse technical skills and effective problem-solving abilities.
• Communicates effectively and interfaces well with other departments.
• Has intimate knowledge of SHE regulations.
• Resolves grievances expeditiously and amicably.