Resin Operator

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.

This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

We don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

Your Future Starts Here.  

If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong. 

Anything is possible when you imagine everything. 

Position Overview

Are you a safety-conscious, mechanically inclined professional looking to build a long-term career in a forward-thinking, high-impact manufacturing environment?

At Hexion, a global leader in thermoset resins and specialty chemicals, we’re seeking highly motivated Resin Operators to join our production team. This role is vital to producing quality resins and chemicals used in a variety of sustainable applications, including engineered wood products and industrial solutions.

As a Resin Operator, you’ll play a critical role in our continuous and batch production processes. You'll operate complex manufacturing equipment, uphold rigorous safety and environmental standards, and help deliver high-quality materials that meet both customer and regulatory specifications.

What You'll Do

Health, Safety & Environment (EH&S)

• Ensure safety standards are met.
• Understand and use proper PPE for the task.
• Be an active member on the site EH&S committee.
• Participate in safety training and audits.
• Initiate safety incident investigations.  Be prepared to participate on investigation team.
• Reviews adjust/modify confined space hazard evaluations.
• Report all injuries, those requiring first aid and those not.

Production Operations

• Ability to operate all Resin Reactors.  Including pre-start-up, shut down, lock-out and emergency procedures.
• Communicate to lead technician’s opportunities to meet production demands.
• Work with all production personnel to ensure production schedule needs are met.
• Ensure that equipment needing maintenance attention is properly identified using the work order system. Perform routine maintenance as required.
• Ensure that all standard operating procedures and PI sheet instructions are clearly understood and followed. 
• Maintain accurate entries for Shift reporting and production logs.
• Help facilitate minor and major unit shutdowns.
• Maintain working area in clean and safe conditions at all times, which will include housekeeping audits and assignment of tasks.
• Manage out of spec material by coordinating w/author and Production Superintendent along with appropriate documentation (T-changes/T-blends).
• Ensure proper completion of shift SAP movements and production orders and immediately report deficiencies and errors.
• Ensure operators complete all maintenance. ISO and SOX PMs within the allotted time, not exceeding 1 week from time of distribution.

Quality Assurance

• Provide and manufacture quality in specification material.
• Initiate quality incident investigations.  Be prepared to participate on investigation team.
• Participate in quality improvement teams.
• Perform daily/routine maintenance and calibration on testing equipment.
• Maintain qualification and training on lab equipment.

Competencies

Personal Leadership

• Works individually and as a team member to identify needs and opportunities for improvement and champions efforts to implement solutions.
• Makes decisions and accepts responsibility for own mistakes; helps others to do the same.
• Actively demonstrates the initiative and desire to learn and grow.
• Sets high expectations for self & others.

Trust & Teamwork

• Shares technical knowledge and makes time to promote development of others.
• Able and willing to coach others and share knowledge.
• Fosters an inclusive, collaborative, empowered work environment that values the contributions of a diverse team.
• Wins support of others by building and maintaining trust and credibility; gives effective constructive feedback.

Achieves Results

• Able to see broader trends and patterns in daily work to anticipate future departmental needs.
• Recognize when additional resources are required and act accordingly.
• Sets individual and group goals that align with site objectives and overall Hexion strategy.
• Provides direction and prioritization to others as appropriate.
• Effectively manages multiple tasks and priorities.
• Investigates inconsistencies or errors and seeks to correct them.
• Keeps commitments and meets deadlines.

Positive, Helpful Attitude

• Seeks opportunities to take on additional or new responsibilities.
• Easily communicates and co-operates with other departments.
• Receives feedback positively.
• Maintains a positive energy level around commitments.

Work History / Functional Ability

• Demonstrates ability to learn SAP functionality.
• Effectively trains others within work group in concepts and techniques.
• Can be relied upon to report accurately and honestly.
• Exhibit’s ability to take on new tasks with minimal guidance.
• Makes efforts to assist other team members when own job is slow.
• Pays attention to detail, follows direction, and does not take shortcuts.
• Performs assigned work efficiently and effectively to maximize personal productivity.
• Able to troubleshoot basic mechanical problems associated with production and perform minor maintenance repairs.
• Understand and be capable of manufacturing all three resin processes.
• Understands customer requirements of products and delivery and makes decisions that improve quality.
• Uses data, root cause determination, and statistical methods as the basis for decisions and recommendations.

Safety

• Able to quickly assess a problem, decide on course of action and execute under pressure in order to address plant issues.
• Able to instantly adjust planning in the face of emergencies or changing requirements.
• Actively promotes the importance of safety throughout the site.

Qualifications

• Fit for Duty, safety sensitive site.
• Physical:  Requires the ability to wear full and half face respirators.  Must be able to work rotating 12-hour shifts.  Walking, sitting, climbing, lifting, balancing, kneeling, reaching, handling, fingering, talking, hearing, seeing. Requires visual acuity to distinguish colors.
• Aptitudes:  must possess the ability to understand the meaning of words and their ideas, as well as instructions and their underlying principles. Perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately and possess eye-hand coordination.  Must be able to read, write, and communicate in English.
• Temperaments:  Must have the ability to accept responsibility, perform duties under stress, adapt to situations requiring preciseness and adapt to changing duties and responsibilities.
• Good organizational skills, Self-starter with good communication skills.
• 1+ years manufacturing experience
• Understanding of industrial safety and housekeeping procedures.
• 4th Class Power Engineer; Shall hold and maintain 4th Class Power Engineer’s Certificate of Competency. Duties and Responsibilities under the Safety Codes Act Power Engineers Regulation 85/2003 or most current.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Computer literacy with Windows based program required.
• Able to work in a team environment.
• Follow safety and environmental regulations.
• Be able to interpret printout data, maintain and update process specification as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Mechanically inclined with basic knowledge of hand tools, air tools, etc.
• Recognize and respond to equipment potential malfunctions.
• SAP Experience is a definite asset.
• Able to recognize and respond to equipment potential malfunction.   
• Statistical process control and other related fields necessary to operate a facility from a control station/room/HMI.  
• Requires visual acuity to read and interpret computerized graphics.

What We Offer

• Benefits and Retirement Savings plan day 1, no wait period
• Bonus Potential: Up to $5K annually
• 3 weeks vacation
• Ongoing Training & Development

Be Part of Something Bigger

Join Hexion and become part of a company that is powering innovation through chemistry to make the world safer, cleaner, and more sustainable. We value integrity, collaboration, and excellence—and we recognize and reward our employees who exemplify these values every day.

Apply today to take the next step in your career with Hexion. Together, we’ll build what’s next in chemical innovation.

Other

If currently an employee of the Company, you must have current satisfactory work performance and in most cases, have been in your current role for 18 months.

Disclaimer: We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet, or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.