Advanced Specialist- Production (Asset Optimizer)

Celanese•Florence, KY

33d

About The Position

Advanced Specialist- Production (Asset Optimizer) needed by Celanese Corporation in Florence, KY to Responsible for coordinating all raw materials, in-process and finished goods inventories to align with the scheduled unit production plan.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent degree in Industrial Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or Computer Engineering and 1 year of experience in the job offered or 1 year of experience in a related occupation utilizing Minitab, SAP, Smartsheet, Kronos and Enablon.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the accuracy of all onsite raw material, in process, and finished goods inventories and the overall raw material consumption process.
Interface with procurement, planning, scheduling, and supply chain teams to ensure raw materials, chemicals and packaging are ordered and delivered as needed to meet unit objectives.
Engage with unit team and 24/7 team to identify quality issues with any raw materials and chemicals that need to be addressed with the suppliers.
Identify emerging supply issues. Responsible for acceptance of the production schedule. Provide the conduit between production and scheduling.
Optimize the internal supply chain, material flow, and support plant capacity increases ensuring that the material handling processes are effective for plan success and comply with SQRE.
Engage with supply chain to ensure that they are aware of any production schedule challenges, including planned maintenance outages, raw material concerns, unplanned downtime, and OST.
Ensure that production runs are being scheduled with the accurate inputs regarding rates, OST, and changeover time.
Continuously monitor throughput and production to ensure adherence to schedule and commitments. Detect and anticipate emerging issues that will affect productivity and the schedule; includes collection and analysis required metrics and provide short term/long term plan to address/resolve process gaps.
Facilitate kaizen events and actions to improve efficiency, reliability, and continuously improve processes in order to minimize unplanned downtime and decrease changeover times.
Collaborate with Asset Leader to understand and set priority for equipment repairs while communicating to appropriate stakeholders in production and scheduling.
Communicate issues or barriers with production schedule or material containment.
Generate ideas for improvement and support implementation of process.
Utilize Minitab, SAP, Smartsheet, Kronos and Enablon.