Łukasz Siarka

Oversees all production, maintenance, and logistics operations at the Umicore Nysa site. This role ensures safe, cost-effective, and quality-driven operations aligned with customer demand and strategic growth plans. Primary deputy for the Managing Director.

• Lead and optimize Production, Maintenance, and PW&IL departments.
• Ensure operational excellence, process stability, and KPI achievement.
• Define and manage annual OPEX/CAPEX budgets and cost-saving initiatives.
• Support ramp-up of new production lines and investment projects.
• Drive safety, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement
• Lead operational input into planning, engineering, and product transfers.
• Recruit, coach, and retain critical operational talent.

The Production Manager is responsible for managing all production activities at the Nysa site to ensure the manufacturing of rechargeable battery cathode materials meets customer volume, quality, and cost targets, while complying with EHS standards and promoting team engagement.

• Ensure alignment and execution of production plans.
• Own and manage the Traceability & Identification process for production.
• Define and control CAPEX/OPEX budgets, cost-saving targets, and operational priorities.
• Drive efficiency improvements in yield, throughput, and cost structure.
• Monitor and enhance performance metrics (OEE, quality, process stability).
• Lead safety, environmental, and quality initiatives (ACE, ROCE, PSM).
• Develop self-sufficient, high-performing teams and manage headcount planning.
• Ensure compliance with ISO, IATF, and legal requirements in production operations.

Taking on the responsibility of overseeing plant activities in order to meet business objectives on coagulant production plant with 30+ personnel.

Management of daily operations, ensuring safety and efficiency of the facility is on the top level.
Working in compliance with IPPC permit, ISO standards and all HSE guidelines.
Implementation of EHSQ Kemira Standards into work environment, including complete review of all Life Critical Standards (PTW, LOTO, Linebreaking, Hot Work, Work at Height, Confined Space, Excavations), Risk Assessments and Method Statements meeting law requirements.

Implementation of conditional monitoring to improve general reliability and performance of plant equipment (critical rotating equipment).

Maintaining all administrative records, control costs to achieve company budget goals.

Responsible for all investment projects on Site, budgeting and planning.

Team leadership to the manufacturing operations on COMAH Site - Dry Polyacrylamide.

Working with the Technical and Manufacturing functions to meet and better Production targets, particularly plant output, plant operations, product quality, product cost and department expenditure.
Site Manager during silent hours having overall responsibility for all operations on the Manufacturing site.
Internal plant focus, heavy on process improvement using TQ methods with strong interaction with Technical function.
Internal area focus on Safety productivity and quality via good teamwork.
Implements and audits Lean Manufacturing Initiatives.

Supervision of operation and maintaining various industrial equipment such as granulators, fluid bed dryers, sieves, roller mills, BB & FFS packing, belt polymerization process together with whole wet end.

- review of run conditions to ensure optimal plant running
- the effluent pit control
- environmental sampling
- preparation of weekly and monthly figures
- downtime and quality incident investigations
- maintanance of in-process analytical equipment
- continous improvement
- internal auditing

- Routine analysis of company products to set specifications (HPLC)
- Environmental monitoring of effluents
- HPLC & NIR maintaince, trouble shooting
- Laboratory Team Leader (weekends),
- Routine QA analysis of company products to set specifications, (viscosity, particle size, charge, dry weight and solubility).
- Transfer of daily results, via and ‘SAP’, to various departments and for customer’s reference.
- Regular calibration and cleaning of instruments.
- Legionella testing
- Internal Auditing