What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director - Maintenance Department Head position at Eastman?
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 company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2024 revenue of approximately $9.4 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll lead a team of 2nd-level supervisors and professionals who are committed to safely and reliably supporting the assets that help produce materials that improve the quality of life in a material way. You will leverage your engineering experience and skills to lead our highly-talented maintenance teams. You will use your advanced leadership abilities to drive safety, productivity and exceptional quality in one or more of Eastman’s production facilities. Through collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will prioritize team workload and drive continuous improvement. You will manage the interface between departments and boundary organizations including, but not limited to, operations, maintenance, business organizations, administrative areas and support services.
As a leader, you will coach your team members in leadership and behavioral competencies to deliver high impact results. You will be required to lead intentionally and continually build and improve organizational health to maximize employee engagement. You’ll serve as a member of the Eastman Management team and be an active member of the Centralized Maintenance and Services (CM&S) Division Leadership team and respective Operations Division Leadership Team.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion personal and process safety awareness and performance
- Champion site-wide and department improvement efforts to reduce cost and increase production
- Exhibit high bias for action and drive for execution
- Champion change
- Establish priorities and objectives (with input from boundary organizations); communicate results to stakeholders
- Coach employee development and performance, including developing supervisors
- Ensure work execution processes and practices are robust and enable high performance
- Responsible for the culture and organizational health of respective organization
- Develop, manage and responsible for departmental budget
- Lead productivity improvement projects
- Champion strategy development and accountability for departmental goals
- Drive culture of continuous improvement
- Perform resource management in a dynamic environment
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.
Eastman is committed to creating a powerfully diverse workforce and a broadly inclusive workplace, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.
