Advanced Specialist- Production (Asset Optimizer)

Advanced Specialist- Production (Asset Optimizer)

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

Responsibilities

The responsibilities include :

• 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.

Qualifications

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.