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SalaryThe Asahi Kasei Group operates with a commitment of creating for tomorrow. Our business sectors, Material, Homes, and Health Care, contribute to the development of society by anticipating the changing needs of those around the world. We look for candidates that offer a fresh perspective and a variety of skills to help us achieve our commitment.
We are currently seeking applications to fill the following job opening at Celgard where we develop and manufacture membrane battery separators that are critical components used in lithium-ion batteries for electric drive vehicles (EDVs) and energy storage systems (ESS).Company:
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About the Role
We are seeking a Maintenance Manager to be a part of the integrated supply chain team based in Concord, NC. This position directly reports to the Plant Manager, Concord North Carolina facility and does directly supervise others. This role is responsible to provide direction and align systems to ensure plant reliability losses are mitigated to a minimum level through leadership of maintenance management, facilities management, and reliability/controls engineering. As a key member of plant operations staff this role will develop maintenance team’s objectives and targets to facilitate strong environmental, safety, and plant/production reliability performance that align with site wide operational goals.
Asahi Kasei and Celgard Values
- Sincerity – Being sincere with everyone.
- Challenge – Bolding taking challenges, continually seeking change.
- Creativity – Creating new value through unity and synergy.
Key Accountabilities
Expectations
- Accountable to plan immediate corrective action to downtime, gather data, information and analyze the cause. Plan preventive action in order to improve equipment reliability and machine uptime while running at nominal capacity.
- Accountable for the development and coordination of the plant preventive maintenance plan as well as to set / plan maintenance and machine shut down to achieve maximum reliability of manufacturing equipment.
- Ensure maintenance develops into a proactive organization via the success and sustainment of Total Production Maintenance (TPM) system. Identify and then drive results for key performance indicators to achieve target maintenance performance.
- Proposes medium to long range improvement plan for the facilities to support Mid-Term Plan (MTP) and (spell out acronym) LRP along with the measurable and KPI evolution.
- Works with site leader and Process Technology Center (PTC) to define priority of maintenance project execution according to the business needs.
- Prepare and manage operating budget within established guidelines for all responsible areas.
- Champion site power and other utilities reliability as well as monitoring energy consumption and energy conservation and improvement.
- Provide technical leadership to ensure proper installation, operation, consistency of applications, and long-term viability of manufacturing equipment.
- Support projects and technical activities that includes equipment design, automation, modification, purchase, installation, parts inventory control and commissioning to make sure maintenance considerations are integrated.
- Responsible for maintaining the facilities buildings and grounds in a cost-effective manner that creates a positive image to customers and community.
- Drive the implementation, use and optimization of CMMS.
- Foster an environment of root cause problem solving as well as corrective action to prevent future reoccurrence.
- Assures the use of processes, maintenance standard and best practice including the Most Effective Technology (MET).
- Be proactive and integral leader for continuous improvement opportunities to improve plant ES&H risk and overall manufacturing cost.
- Encourages innovation, over achievement, teamwork, excellence in the work.
- Participate in employee performance management including goal setting, performance expectations, performance reviews, regular feedback, development planning, and improvement plan.
- Provide regular communication to all team members and meaningful feedback to any employee concerns.
- Provide on and off-hour emergency response including equipment repair, damage control, and assignment of support personnel as needed.
- Provides necessary training to new and existing employees.
- Keeps up on technological changes such as retrofitting machinery to meet today’s new laws and efficiency standards.
Qualifications
Education Background:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required; degree in mechanical or electrical engineering is preferred.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Must possess at least 7 years of manufacturing or direct process experience with exceptional ability to solve problems in complex scenarios / multiple constraints.
- Must be proficient in Excel, and Minitab is strongly preferred (primarily to perform data analysis).
- Direct experience with continuous process 24/7 is an advantage.
- Strong commitment to PDCA methodology
- Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing experience are strongly preferred.
- Materials Engineering & Compounding (Extrusion) and CAD skills a plus
- Familiarity with database systems such as Power BI is a plus. Must possess strong problem-solving skills and experience with typical Continuous Improvement problem solving tools such as fishbone, 5 why, process flow map, etc.
- Experience in TPM or similar top maintenance management system preferred.
- Must have previous project management experience.
- Ability to analyze data to determine solutions and improvement opportunities is required.
- Process Instruction and report writing ability are required.
Key Attributes:
- Must possess good interpersonal skills – to be a team player and facilitator.
- Must possess bias for action and have process driven logical thinking and planning skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively to diverse audiences across all levels of the organization is required.
- Must be self-motivated and have the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop others.
- Must have strong process orientation – must be structured in approach to the role.
Travel:
- Must be able and willing to travel up to 30% for domestically and abroad for training and visiting other company locations.
Working Environment
This position is in a manufacturing plant setting that would require working in a production environment around chemicals. Work will require standing and walking for up to 80% of the time. Lighting and temperature are adequate. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount to force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
Celgard manufacturing sites are IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 certified.
Perks & Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits, effective 1st day of the month
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account
- Vacation + 9 Paid Holidays + 16 Hours of Floating Holidays
- 401K Safe Harbor Contribution + Matching
- Paid Parental Leave after a Year of Employment
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life & Disability Insurances
About Us
For more than 50 years, Celgard has proven itself as a global leader in the development and production of high-performance membrane technology. Celgard specializes in solvent-free, dry-process, microporous membranes used as separators that are a major component of lithium-ion batteries that power a broad range of electric vehicles (EV) and energy storage systems (ESS). Celgard® membrane is also used in specialty applications such as satellites and military installations as well as other barrier-type applications like technical textiles for waterproof and breathable apparel. Headquartered in the United States, we operate manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and China and have sales and technical service staff located strategically throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Celgard, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Polypore International, LP, an Asahi Kasei Company. With manufacturing facilities or sales offices in nine countries serving six continents, Polypore brings advanced development and manufacturing know-how as well as unique problem-solving capabilities to customers' lithium-ion and lead-acid battery development teams. The Asahi Kasei Group is a diversified group of companies led by holding company Asahi Kasei Corp., with operations in the material, homes, and health care business sectors. With more than 46,000 employees around the world, the Asahi Kasei Group serves customers in more than 100 countries. We are Creating for Tomorrow!
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As an equal opportunity employer, Asahi Kasei believes a diverse workforce will provide us with the ability to continuously support the changes in the economy, society, and environment.
