Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2023 revenue of approximately $9.2 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.
Responsibilities
As Global Reliability Program Manager at Eastman, you’ll work on maximizing the ROI of reliability investment through striking best balance of preventative/reactive maintenance based on product demand and margins. You’ll define and maintain reliability standards and processes that will deliver desired business outcomes. You will establish Critical Metrics & Tools to point to the value and measure Reliability Performance against business goals and facilitate capability build in the sites/division through the Reliability Playbook and Technology Deployment. Furthermore, you will facilitate value capture through implementations and enforce consistent adherence to the reliability standards & performance goals to ensure the Reliability Transformation “sticks.”
Note: This position can be based in the US or Europe, in one of the following locations: Kingsport, Tennessee / Longview, Texas / Ghent, Belgium
Responsibilities
Champion Eastman Zero Incident Mindset through focus on reducing unplanned operational events through consistent, disciplined reliability and asset integrity management Drive implementation of corporate reliability strategy and leverage expertise & established working relationships to lead transformational change by: Serving as a Division Leadership Team (e.g., core business team) liaison with accountability for reliability target setting and performance via alignment on business strategy, performance monitoring / reinforcement / enforcement and prioritization Serving as Eastman Manufacturing Site liaison with accountability through site managers of assigned sites for reliability including asset integrity Assessing process execution (source of and best practice enterprise-wide gap identification), prioritizing gap closure support to drive asset strategy development and monitoring improvement choices for cost and output Leading rapid improvement efforts for sites including opportunity discovery, routine development and gap closure actions Provide reliability improvement implementation support, IT systems and new technology adoption, and networking Perform auditing and ensure enforcement Serve as a member of the Reliability CoE Core Team: Lead standards development and establish/manage external connections Own specific KPIs and metrics Subject Matter Expertise support coordination Own portion of assessment / audit process, consolidated improvement project list maintenance and prioritization (ServiceNow) and support Rapid Reliability Improvement Develop and steward playbooks, competency maps and own portions of our digital roadmap and emerging technologies
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is highly preferred. Significant relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree. 10+ years of relevant experience required, including experience in manufacturing with general knowledge of reliability and reliability management systems Comfortable in the field, in the shop, in team and 1:1 interaction Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with higher levels in the organization Experience with strategy development and project management Excellent at team leadership and mentorship; ability to influence without direct authority Ability to develop high level of credibility with maintenance & manufacturing leaders Moderate travel will be required to network with assigned sites
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