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William Gilliam

Kingsport,Tn.

Summary

Insightful Manager with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies and strong policy enforcement. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Principle Team Manager

Eastman Chemical Company
01.2017 - Current
  • Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
  • Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
  • Mentored newly hired employees on operating equipment and safety and developed training manual to use for reference.
  • Directed and supervised team of 60 Craft personnel during steam outage for the South Polymer turn around.
  • Managed schedules, accepted time off requests while maintaining crew levels to complete work flow demands.
  • Developed monthly and daily production work schedule plans to manage employee skills sets
  • Worked with HR Talent Acquisition on the interviewing process for the helper role in CM&S

Reliability Maintenances Facilitator (RMF)

Eastman Chemical Company
05.2015 - 01.2017
  • Interacted with vendors, contractors and professional services personnel to receive orders, direct activities and communicate instructions concerning compressor rebuilds.
  • Worked with mechanical and electrical personnel to document and developed written procedures for area equipment repairs.
  • Interacted with procurement on the De-Bottle Knecking capital project in DMT to set up parts list in storerooms, as well as, build BOMs for new equipment.
  • Support Glycol Compressor Team as the RMF, I worked closely with the Reliability Engineer to track run time on Compressors and document repairs needed.

Lead Craft Worker

Eastman Chemical Company
01.2010 - 06.2015
  • Maintained staff assignments each day for the daily schedule.
  • Managed the crew calendar for vacation request.
  • Issued work assignments for the daily task for each crafts personnel. on the crew.
  • Managed any work deviation from the plan schedule work that may be needing address for the day.
  • Promoted safety within my crew and led Safety morning discussions each day during morning meeting.

EMN APPR PROG - MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

Eastman Chemical Company
08.2001 - 08.2005

As a Maintenance Mechanic I:

  • Followed work orders and specifications for machine and equipment replacement, repair or maintenance.
  • Completed partial or full dismantling of equipment to quickly repair or replace defective components and restore functionality.
  • Performed preventive and regular maintenance on systems.
  • Worked on Compressor PMs and rebuilds in Glycol
  • Serviced DMT area changing pumps, valves, and piping.
  • I have been in many of the columns and furnaces in DMT doing repairs or inspections.

Cutter Operator

Eastman Chemical Company
09.1997 - 01.2001

As cutter Operator I:

  • Maintained and inspected the cutter machinery on an hourly bases.
  • Caught and labeled polymer pellet samples for the lab.
  • Inspected and weighed polymer pellets for quality control.
  • kept cutter area cleaned and free from contamination.

Education

EMN Apprenticeship Program

EMN APPR PROG - MAINTENANCE MECHANIC
Kingsport, TN

High School Diploma -

Sullivan North High School
Kingsport, TN
05.1992

Skills

As a Principle Team Manager working in the South end of Polymers I have managed in Both B270 maintenance Shop as well as B226 shop

I have managed up to 32 direct reports covering six different areas of South Polymers

During the steam outage I was managing around 60 Craft personnel and tracking 100 jobs a day in South Polymers building outage

I have established a zero-incident mind set with my crew on how they approach each job on a day-to-day basis

Developed a Hazard risk assessment to be performed on each job prior to beginning of work and directly following the JSR

Timeline

Principle Team Manager

Eastman Chemical Company
01.2017 - Current

Reliability Maintenances Facilitator (RMF)

Eastman Chemical Company
05.2015 - 01.2017

Lead Craft Worker

Eastman Chemical Company
01.2010 - 06.2015

EMN APPR PROG - MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

Eastman Chemical Company
08.2001 - 08.2005

Cutter Operator

Eastman Chemical Company
09.1997 - 01.2001

EMN Apprenticeship Program

EMN APPR PROG - MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

High School Diploma -

Sullivan North High School
William Gilliam