Eric Gazda Email & Phone Number

Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The company is a leading producer of acetyl products, which are intermediate chemicals for nearly all major industries, and is the world's largest producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM).Celanese's operations are primarily located in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its largest plant is in the Clear Lake area of Pasadena, Texas, USA the home to the world’s largest acetic acid plant. In 2011, Celanese reported net sales of $6.76 billion.

Listed skills include Chemistry, Gas Chromatography, Polymers, Analytical Chemistry, and 7 others.

• 

  Research Technician Specialist

  Celanese

  May 2007 - Present - Clear Lake

  • Qualify new catalyst locally, for various worldwide locations.• Build and design new units. This involves reactors, vaporizers, resin columns, and corrosion units.• Responsible for daily data collection of several units in the lab.• Daily unit preparation, start-up, operation, and shutdown. • Performed hands-on fabrication and maintenance of each unit.• Led and participated in Lab Safety Reviews, process hazard analysis, and incident investigations.• Perform catalyst loading and unloading, wet chemical analysis, data recording and process equipment fabrication and maintenance.• Responsible for numerous Root Cause Analysis investigations.• Perform Hazard Reviews and Hazard Identification Inspections.• Train new employees on lab responsibilities as well as unit and Chemistry knowledge.• Qualified on all seven units used to collect chemistry data and proses control data for full-scale units in China and the Americas.• Safety oriented with all aspects of hazard recognition and preparedness. • Proficient in LabView, Chromeleon.

• 

  San Jacinto College

  General Science