Sr. Maintenance Manager

Celanese is a global leader in chemistry, producing specialty material solutions used across most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use our chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees and shareholders. We are committed to sustainability by responsibly managing the materials we create for their entire lifecycle and are growing our portfolio of sustainable products to meet increasing customer and societal demand. We strive to make a positive impact in our communities and to foster inclusivity across our teams. Celanese is a Fortune 500 company that employs approximately 12,400 employees worldwide with 2023 net sales of $10.9 billion.

The Sr. Manager Maintenance is responsible for overall development and implementation of Bishop site processes to maintain unit and site assets including fixed equipment, rotating equipment, instrumentation, electrical systems and overall facilities.  The position leads the central maintenance team responsible for planning, scheduling, and efficient execution of preventive and corrective maintenance work orders during normal operations as well as unit outages.  This position is accountable for the Stores warehouse management, including ensuring availability of optimum spare parts inventory aligned with equipment criticality. This position serves as primary contact for coordination of resident contractor resources including staffing levels.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with internal and external safety requirements. The manager is responsible for ensuring that all maintenance activities are carried out in compliance with relevant safety regulations and standards, to maintain a safe working environment for all employees.
• Promotes a culture to achieve flawless execution of maintenance work, aligned with overall manufacturing objectives across stewardship, quality, reliability and engagement
• Drives best-in-class, cost-effective execution of planned and corrective maintenance work by championing adherence to maintenance work process
• Proactively identifies maintenance process gaps and opportunities through data analysis of KPIs and metrics to enable continuous improvement in collaboration with site stakeholders
• Coaches and develops team members to improve team performance and sustain bench strength
• Collaborates with Reliability Program Owner and units on development of appropriate equipment strategies (inspection intervals, tasks, repair plans, sparing etc) are in place for all equipment
• Collaborates with Site Reliability Program Owner and unit reliability leads to ensure site and unit reliability objectives are met, including timely completion of Level C RCAs for corrective maintenance work orders by maintenance technicians, and supports Level A/B RCAs for significant equipment downtime, and Bad Actor resolution
• Drives repair quality culture with “first-time right” mindset to minimize rework and equipment related losses
• Provides input on new equipment design and installation to assure maintainability and long term cost of ownership considerations are incorporated.
• Networks within and outside the enterprise to share and adopt best practices and emerging technologies, including digitalization opportunities.

Key Abilities

• Recognizes risks and develops proactive solutions
• Analyzes complex situations and thinks strategically and drives action
• Communicates efficiently and effectively at all levels of the organization
• Knowledgeable regarding planning and scheduling processes using CMMS and associated maintenance excellence work processes
• Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplined teams, including motivating and developing talent and building the bench

Key Attributes

• Decision quality (data based) - uses available data to drive efficient/effective decision making and continuous improvement
• Work process centric mind-set
• Values Collaboration - promotes a culture where diverse views and experiences are leveraged to create value
• Manages ambiguity - seeks clarity to ensure alignment and enable team to move forward
• Action oriented  - removes obstacles to ensure timely resolution of issues and achievement of objectives
• Builds networks - learns from others and shares best practices and experiences
• Resilient - bounces back from setbacks and drives forward progress 

Current Direct Reports - 7

Education/Experience

BS in an Engineering Discipline (Mechanical or Electrical Preferred), minimum 10 years experience in petrochemical, refining, or polymer plant Maintenance, including experience supervising direct reports.