Celanese Employer Reviews

Probably the least enjoyable position I have ever held.
Plant was partially mothballed several years ago. As a result, many of the normal work processes and functions just ended when the people performing them were laid off.

Worn out plant and equipment.
Derelict or missing work processes.
High turnover in engineering dept.
Politically charged work – more... environment.
Pay and benefits are very good. – less

Supervised 11 AP accountants in a shared services environment. Helped department convert from SAP 4.6 to SAP 4.7, documented policies and procedures to strengthen internal controls as part of the SOX team, daily batch audits, prepared monthly metrics reports, assisted with research for 1099 reporting, approved time-cards for temporary employees, documented – more... AP issues and resolutions, and presented new policies in town-hall style meetings. The hardest part of the job was finding the right contacts within the company to assist with problem resolutions. This is a very large company and some manager's areas of responsibility overlap each other so there might be 2 or more answers to the same question, or miscommunication as to who would answer and therefore no answer. The best part of the job was the team of AP accountants in the department. They were dedicated to doing good work and knew their jobs well. – less

make your own breaks,healthcare good,mangers change.you have to have good health to preform there,overall good place to work.

Poor communications and management style. Forget about work-life balance.

It's a fun place to work but it is mostly dependent on the department that you're in.

I like the people that i work with but management not so much
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This company did not pay its corporate employees very well; however, this is a great company. This company fostered a great working environment. It was a fun place to work.

Great company, great people. Very collaborative work environment. Provides challenges needed to develop in your career

Strong company to work for and a good intership for college students.

Celanese offers plenty of opportunities. Provides challenging opportunities

Interesting, challenging, sometimes stressful environment. Celanese was once a family oriented, fun, place to work. Through the most recent years, layoffs, restructures, and management changes have made it a stressful, very demanding, uncomfortable work environment. On a good note, safety in still the number one focus, but with much less people and – more... bigger demand for production, the stress level has increased. Overall Celanese is a good company with decent benefits. – less

The part I do enjoy most about Celanese is the forward looking culture and striving to be the 1st-ranked in the products Celanese produces. A very focused business strategy that transcends in its management style as well.

Great overall place to work. Good leadership and good benefits.

They utilized the latest technology and tools.
Worked with consulting firms - very progressive.
Enjoyed working at Celanese.

big corporate atmosphere, many projects, many people

A typical day would consist of a production meeting or shift hand over involving your opposite number where any issues in production would be highlighed,this information would be loggged onto a data base by either the ingoing or outgoing shift where each member would take up the respective machinery on the production or manufacturing side.There was – more... always something that you might come across that you have never experienced before thus adding to the learning process for future reference.Team work was always at the forefront of your working day so a good relationship with your colleagues always made the day more enjoyable.Working 12 hour shifts could sometimes leave you exausted – less

Demanding and thankless place to work. Equipment and processes for the most part are archaic and poorly maintained. Hard core union with entrenched entitlement mindset. Professional staff is treated poorly. Salary is below average. Don't even bother comparing with oil and gas.
Dallas head office is trying to wring every dollar out of the facility. Morale – more... is poor and is partly to blame for high turnover. Successive site directors have cowtowed to the union at the expense of non union staff. The plant is an environmental disaster. Lip service to compliance and remediation only.
It is a challenge to find anything good to say about this operation. OK, location is decent. It beats going up north. – less

Good co workers. Friendly and enjoyable place to work. Worked day shifts. Good managment. Sometimes very noisy.

Although we have a shift supervisor, our team of four plans out production and maintenance for the shift. We have two teams of two working from a control room. I work with a co-worker on Flake production and carry out any repairs on first line maintenance or write out maintenance reports to get the work carried out..( This is the hardest part of the – more... job as my co-worker has worked here for a very long time and doesn't like change.) I have to carry out isolations and permits in order to do this work, as I'm the only one who is qualified to do this. Management sometimes phone you to check on issues we might have but we never see senior management on the plant. The reward I get is when you have resolved an issue and got the plant back running on full production in time to hand over to the next shift. I enjoy the variety of work I come across from which you learn new things about. – less

Monitoring and altering machine specifacitions,Quality control and packing of the final product. Leading and working as a team,with members in my department as well as liaising with members from other areas.The hardest part of the job is the reactive side,only so much proactive work can be done.At the same time the reacting to different scenarios and – more... solving these can be self rewarding. I have learned alot about manufacturing as well as being trained up a numerous amount of activities such as,fork lift, safety procedures and team leading skills. – less