Reliability Manager

The Celanese Winona, MN site is located near the Mississippi river and produces Long Fiber reinforced Thermoplastics (LFT). The role, as a member of the Site Leadership Team, owns the site’s reliability and maintenance programs. This role is instrumental in developing the maintenance team to achieve their top potential.

• Member of Site Leadership Team.
• Leads Maintenance and Reliability Teams to achieve performance goals.
• Develops people to achieve their top potential through their key abilities and attributes. Provides performance feedback to all team members. Ensures training to develop the technical capabilities of the team.
• Develops and implements appropriate reliability strategies for equipment and processes. Drives long term reliability improvement through Bad Actor and Single Point of Failure elimination. Creates robust predictive and preventative monitoring/action plans and spare equipment stock.
• Drives continuous improvement through 5S principles, Cause Analysis/Resolution, and Strategy advancement. Recognizes patterns regarding equipment functionality and performance and anticipates failures before they occur.
• Owns the site maintenance workflows, reliability work processes, and warehouse. Tracks key performance indicators and proactively responds to them.
• Documents, reviews, and supports maintenance activities performed by the 24/7 Team.      
• Ensures that work is conducted to support stewardship (EHS) compliance, quality, reliability, and engagement initiatives.
• Consistently partners with site Operations and Technology Leaders to shape plant performance.
• Leads and provides direction on Mechanical Integrity Programs and Technical Directives, including the reliability roadmap.
• Provides input on vendor selection through procurement.
• Ensures changes are appropriately documented on various platforms – SAP, equipment files, etc.
• Manages maintenance budget and participates in development of Annual Operating Plan.
• Networks with peers at other sites and across industry to identify and adopt best practices for technology and reliability programs.
• Participates as a core member for MOC’s, PHA’s, etc.
• Spends routine time in the field to audit work process and work performance.

• Bachelor's degree in technical field (preferred), experience in lieu of degree also acceptable.
• Experience in people leadership/managing teams preferred.
• Manufacturing maintenance and operations experience preferred.
• Effective communicator
• Experience in applying reliability philosophies and continuous improvement.
• Ability to understand production planning, scheduling, and capabilities.
• Ability to identify emerging issues and create organizational movement to address.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to manage complexity and make collaborative decisions.

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets, work experience, and qualifications.  The expected salary range for this Minnesota position is between $96,800 and $128,300.