Company Overview

Arkema Pte. Ltd. operates globally with 91 industrial sites and 20,000 employees, delivering specialty materials and innovative chemical solutions across industries including automotive, energy, and healthcare.

Job Summary

Arkema Singapore is seeking an experienced Production Superintendent to lead production operations within our PA11 unit at our Jurong Island manufacturing site. Reporting to the Production Manager, the role is responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations while leading Shift Leaders, Process Technicians, and Material Handlers to achieve production and HSEQ objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct Shift Leaders, Process Technicians, Lead Material Handler, and Material Handlers to ensure smooth and efficient plant operations that meet production goals
• Achieve production targets while maintaining product quality standards and controlling operational costs
• Analyze and troubleshoot operational issues to optimize unit performance and enhance process reliability
• Coordinate maintenance activities with the Maintenance Coordinator to maximize plant availability and minimize downtime
• Manage manpower deployment, develop work schedules, and implement training plans to maintain operational readiness
• Support competency development and career progression for operations and material handling teams through coaching and training initiatives
• Promote and enforce a strong HSEQ culture ensuring compliance with Arkema's Integrated Management System and safety standards
• Participate actively in emergency response efforts, conduct incident investigations, and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety and efficiency

Required competencies and certifications

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in chemical, petrochemical, or process manufacturing industries

Preferred competencies and qualifications

• Practical knowledge of chemical manufacturing operations and process engineering to support operational excellence
• Familiarity with hazardous chemical processes and risk management to ensure safe plant operations
• Experience in production management and maintenance coordination to drive operational efficiency
• Strong leadership and people management skills to effectively lead diverse teams
• Good problem-solving and organizational abilities to address operational challenges proactively
• Effective communication and decision-making capabilities to facilitate collaboration and timely resolutions
• Proactive, results-oriented, and self-motivated approach to meet production and safety goals

Other Information

• Work Location: Jurong Island

Why Join Arkema?

• Be part of a global specialty materials leader committed to innovation and sustainability
• Work within a highly advanced manufacturing environment on Jurong Island
• Opportunity to contribute to critical turnaround and plant reliability initiatives
• Collaborative and multicultural working environment with strong emphasis on safety and operational excellence

·       Involve in the monthly financial closing process and prepare analytical reports for operating results, standard/actual costing analysis and PPV analysis for both trading and manufacturing plant activities.

·       Prepare monthly reports which include sales & margin, sales price analysis, fixed costs and logistics cost, working capital and some BU reports. Highlight abnormal price deviations to respective BUs to avoid errors.

·       Prepare the P&L by BU and highlight to FP&A team regarding deviations that require actions to mitigate transfer-pricing targets.

·       Be involved in the annual internal control audits.

·       Be involved in the annual stock take exercise.

·       Assist in manufacturing plant related topics and analytical activities.

·       Assist in the annual budget exercise by establishing schedules, collecting, analysing and consolidating financial data.

·       To handle intercompany service agreements and related invoicing requirements.

·       To monitor and follow-up on slow moving inventories and AR aging.

·       To monitor on Capex spend vs. budget for minor investments.

·       Compile and submit annual statutory surveys and other related.

·       Prepare and submit claims and follow-up the correspondences and disbursements.

·       Be involved in the external audit and preparations for queries.

·       Assist in transfer-pricing documentation, insurance renewal and related matters.

·       Provide support to the day-to-day operations in the area of administrative or ad-hoc requests related to finance.

Arkema is the leading manufacturer of this unique advanced material’, which is very durable, fully recyclable, and is produced 100% from castor oil, a renewable and sustainable raw material. Its applications are many and varied in automotive, sports, consumer electronics, 3D printing/ additive manufacturing, bio-textiles, and medical, all of which are experiencing strong growth, particularly in Asia.

Join Arkema and...

Design the materials of tomorrow
We work towards sustainability every day, using our technological breakthroughs to boost our customers’ performance.

DESIGNER OF INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
Work for an international leader in its markets.
Arkema is one of the top three global leaders in almost all of our product lines, generating an equal volume of sales in Europe, North America and Asia.
Work Location: Jurong Island
We are hiring for a Plant Controller and following is the Job Description:
MAIN JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Protect assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls. Support organization to set up internal control processes, Business Roles review and Segregation of Duty in the ERP system.
• Prepare and organize site budget process, new year costing data preparation such as activity rate, BOM and Routing validation. Allocation Key determination for common costs.
• Achieve budget objectives by scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances at all levels (sales, variable margins, fixed costs, CAPEX and depreciation, working capital), and initiate corrective actions.
• Lead the monthly material balancing with production teams, provide and ensure reliability of manufacturing costs and inventory valuation via MUV and PPV analysis. Communicate with various stakeholders to provide an update of production process performance.
• Monitor production cost by ensuring goods receipt operation and cost accrual are taken up on timely manner and report the cost movement regularly. Highlight any cost deviation to the site managers and BU FP&A promptly.
• Provide Flash reporting components such as production fixed costs, variable production cost and yield variance to the FP&A BU per reporting schedule.
• Perform control check and review AIS to detect any variances in regard to budget and Group Reporting Manual. Take corrective action to rectify the posting errors.
• Investment cost control in close coordination with all stakeholders including local project team and Regional Engineering Team with regards to defining project structure, data allocation control and capitalization process.
• Coordinate the yearly stock-take for all types of inventories on site.
• Monitor and manage the provisions for slow-moving inventory.
• Assist in various forms of audit exercises and statutory site surveys.
• Monitoring the contracts to support IFRS16 entries, off balance sheet commitment, take-or-pay accruals.
• Attend to property tax matter and coordinate any site visit by IRAS.
• Attend to yearly site insurance renewals.
• Track and report relevant financial KPI for the plant.

Accountabilities:

• Accountable for the plant controlling function and activities in the new High Performance Polymers industrial site (Symphony) located in Jurong Island, Singapore.
• Ensure to provide accurate and reliable financial information in a timely manner to the management and BU with appropriate KPIs and proposed improvements.
• Ensure compliance with finance and accounting policies and procedures for both Statutory and Group.
• Several interactions with various functional divisions and BU stakeholders.

HEALTH, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT, QUALITY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

• Apply and enforce in the department the rules and procedures of Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality in accordance with AIMS and ISO.
• Ensures the issuing and action for incident reports in his/ her area of his activity.
• Implement HSEQ and Energy corrective actions in his/ her area of his activity.
• Lead or participate in HSEQ and Energy working groups.
• Participate in HSEQ audit program.

Education & Knowledge:

• A degree or equivalent in Business Management/ Accounting with at least 6 years of relevant work experience handling full site controlling.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Proficiency in Excel, business intelligence tools and SAP.
• Sound knowledge of accounting fundamentals and local regulations.
• Compliance oriented.
• Audit experience will be an added advantage.

Soft skills:

• People management & leadership
• Communication in a multicultural environment
• Rigor
• Relational skills
• Analysis
• Anticipation
• Pragmatism
• Autonomy
• Teamwork
• Organized