Personnel allocation for the chlor-alkali production area
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The company has requested that the workshop carry out staff optimization. Our current staffing arrangement is as follows: for shift work, there are four shifts per day; each shift consists of 4 people for salt production, 2 people for electrolysis, 4 people for chlorine-hydrogen processing, 4 people for central control, and 3 people serving as shift leaders and assistants； Support positions (liquid chlorine loading, liquid caustic loading): 7 people ； 9 process and equipment technicians ； 1 safety officer ； 3 general clerks ； 1 material handler ； There are 3 workshop supervisors, for a total of 92 people. There are no personnel responsible for maintaining ion exchange membranes or for repairing tanks. The staff working in the rectification area fall under the jurisdiction of the maintenance workshop. Let’s discuss whether this arrangement for the workshop is appropriate, and what is your staffing structure like.
Why isn’t anyone participating? Hurry up, please :(
Our caustic soda workshop has that many employees; the number of workers in the hydrogen chloride workshop is roughly the same as that in our workshop. Since the organizational structures of different companies vary, as does the level of equipment automation, it’s not possible to make any comparisons.
Our production setup follows a 4-shift, 3-shift rotation system: the number of workers per shift is as follows – for brine preparation: 3 people (including those responsible for denitration, brine filling, and packaging of mirabilite); for electrolysis: 2 people; for chlorine treatment: 2 people; for hydrogen treatment: 2 people; for chlorine liquefaction: 1 person. For circulating water, pure water, air compression stations, refrigeration units, and storage and transportation of finished products: a total of 3 people. For the control room: 1 scheduler and 4 control room operators. For hydrogen packaging and chlorine packaging: a total of 8 people. There are 3 supervisors for the different systems, 2 process engineers, and 7 supervisors for various production processes. For electrical maintenance and rectifier operations: a total of 20 people. For instrumentation and mechanical maintenance: also 20 people in total
3 people for brine processing, 4 people for salt and nitrate processing, and 8 people for the chlor-alkali section. Shift 4, 2 shifts per day
The unfortunate staff reduction policy: 3 shifts per day, 2 shifts each. 4 people for the brine processing unit (brine processing + denitration + salt addition), 2 people for electrolysis, 3 people for the control room (control operations + rectification). 4 people in the chloric acid processing section (hydrogen treatment + chlorine treatment + liquefaction + synthesis + sodium hypochlorite production). 2 people for utility systems (circulating water, pure water, nitrogen production). 1 person for the 110KV substation, and 1 person for dispatching
Three shifts with two rotations per day + 17 elites per shift = high salary? Which company should learn it?
Just talking about the staffing level doesn’t indicate production capacity, so there’s no way to make comparisons, right? The most streamlined facility I’ve ever seen: one shift leader, two control operators, two main operators, one person in charge of primary brine + electrolysis + dechlorination + secondary brine, one person for hydrogen chloride treatment, and one person for hydrogen chloride synthesis. Eight in total. Salt application and maintenance are separate units.
Related to the company’s organizational structure, our company produces 440,000 tons of caustic soda, with 110 employees on staff.
The number of staff on duty is indeed quite low; it’s likely that the equipment is advanced and the personnel highly qualified. I was wondering what the scale of the operation is, how large the area covered is, and whether the cleaning services are outsourced