Manufacturing Technology Manager

Draslovka is seeking a Manufacturing Technology Manager to lead the Technology Team at our Memphis, TN chemical manufacturing site.

In this role, you will manage and develop the site’s team of engineer professionals and direct technical support and continuous improvements that keeps our cyanide (CN)-based production processes safe, reliable, efficient, and compliant.

You will set the process engineering agenda for the site—owning process technology, driving continuous-improvement and yield initiatives, and serving as the senior technical authority for troubleshooting complex process issues.

Partnering closely with Operations, Maintenance, Process Safety, and EHS leadership, you will translate business and production goals into the appropriate technology strategy while building the capability and performance of the technical team.

This position reports to the Plant Manager at our Memphis, TN location.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead, mentor, and develop the site’s Manufacturing Technical Team—setting priorities, managing performance, and building technical capability across the group.
• Own process technology for the site’s chemical manufacturing units, ensuring processes are designed and operated to meet safety, quality, environmental, throughput, and cost objectives.
• Direct process optimization and continuous-improvement initiatives—including yield, energy, reliability, and debottlenecking projects—using data analysis and structured problem-solving.
• Provide senior technical leadership for troubleshooting complex process upsets and quality deviations, driving root-cause analysis and durable corrective actions.
• Guide capital and process-change projects from scoping and design through commissioning and start-up, ensuring sound engineering, budget discipline, and on-time delivery.
• Serve as a process safety leader—championing Process Safety Management (PSM) program elements, leading or sponsoring process hazard analyses (PHAs), and enforcing management-of-change (MOC) rigor.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, including process descriptions, operating limits, P&IDs, and design bases, and ensure engineering standards (RAGAGEP) are applied.