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Ascend Performance Materials makes high-performance materials for everyday essentials and new technologies, with the purpose of improving quality of life today and inspiring a better tomorrow.

Based in Houston, Texas, and with regional offices in Shanghai, Brussels and Detroit, we are a fully integrated material solutions provider with global manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Our global workforce makes the materials used to make safer vehicles, cleaner energy, better medical devices, smarter appliances and longer-lasting apparel and consumer goods.

We are committed to safety, sustainability, culture, and diversity and to the success of our customers, employees and our communities.

Markets we serve

Automotive: From safety systems to paint, the biggest automakers rely on our materials to make their advanced designs possible.

Electrical and electronics: With our Starflam flame-retardant portfolio, our customers make the connectors, plugs, breakers and switches that keep connected homes and buildings safe.

Cable management: We are the largest supplier of high-performance materials for the cable ties and fasteners that make modern mobility, connectivity, and energy possible.

Consumer and industrial: Our materials help create leak-proof food packaging, sporting goods, smart appliances, advanced manufacturing robots and millions of other things you interact with every day.

Join us and help improve people’s quality of life today and inspire a better tomorrow.

Position Overview

The Vice President of Operations – North America is responsible for strategic leadership of our chemical manufacturing facilities in North America (Pensacola, FL, Decatur, AL, Alvin, TX, Greenwood, SC). This includes driving manufacturing excellence across all sites with a focus on Environmental, Safety, Security and Health (ESSH), reliability, and people development while maintaining high quality standards, fostering an inclusive culture and employing process improvement principles. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), this role works closely with other executives to ensure that the company's manufacturing operations are aligned with the overall business strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Team

Reports to: Senior Vice President and Chief Integrated Supply Chain Officer

Direct Reports: Site Manufacturing Directors, Production Engineering Director, 1500+ indirect reports

Qualifications

Capacity to demonstrate and align with Ascend values:

Ascend leadership behaviors and expectations:

Skills Summary:

About Us:

Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. With world scale integrated manufacturing facilities we are able to develop new products from our core technologies, and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of customers. Ascend has global sales and distribution facilities across the globe and six manufacturing facilities globally. As a privately-held company, our people do big things and make big decisions, often much earlier in their careers than at larger companies. Ascend Performance Materials offers team members the opportunity to contribute in big, meaningful ways—all within a stable and growing business.

Why work at Ascend?

Our vision is to be the recognized leader in the nylon 6,6 value chain, creating new possibilities with PA66 for everyone, everywhere, every day. We achieve that through living our Ascend values.

We care. We operate safely with high integrity for our employees, our customers and our communities. Our people are our greatest assets, and our Total Rewards Program extends beyond traditional benefits to include access to on-site medical clinics at our U.S. facilities, a global wellness rewards program and Performance Matters, an employee-driven recognition plan. Our Commitment to Zero demonstrates our belief that is it possible to operate with zero personal injuries, zero process safety incidents and zero environmental releases. And the Ascend Cares Foundation, led by Ascend employees, supports Ascend families in times of need, provides inspiring opportunities for community engagement and facilitates community leadership.

Customer-focused. We exist for our customers; they drive our actions. Their success is our success. Our plastics and chemicals are building blocks that help make everyday essentials safer and more sustainable, and we constantly strive to develop new and innovative products to meet the future needs of our customers. And that customer focus doesn’t only apply to the marketplace – it also applies to how we treat our colleagues and our fellow community members.

Better every day. We invest in our people and our processes to improve every day. A2E, our continuous improvement program, guides the way we do business. And this way of problem solving applies not only to our manufacturing practices but also to our commitment to developing our people. You’ll see it during your career at Ascend in our leadership development, skills training and mentoring programs

Agile. We think broadly and lead proactively in a constantly evolving organization and industry. Agility doesn’t mean simply working quickly – it means critical thinking, creative problem solving and novel approaches to everyday challenges.

One Ascend. All together, with a common set of goals and an eye toward the future. We don’t accept silos. We look for ways to share across departments, sites and geography. This means you won’t be boxed into a single role at Ascend – you could get the chance to work with teams across the globe to improve the way we serve our people, our customers and our communities.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, citizenship, genetic information or other protected status under federal, state or local laws.