10 Celanese plant leaders
Site Director and Plant Manager are among the current titles held by these Celanese plant leaders, who run a Celanese plant or site today or have run one. A reader can learn how plant leaders run their sites at Celanese from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Brad Bouchard
LinkedInExperience: Site Director · Celanese
Brad Bouchard has been Site Director at Celanese since November 2024, based in the Greater Richmond Region. At Celanese they also held Sr Operations Manager rows covering 2021 to 2024 and 2016 to 2018, and were Sr. Maintenance Manager (2018–2021).
Christian Arndt
LinkedInExperience: Site Director · Celanese
Christian Arndt has been Site Director at Celanese since December 2024, a role the profile places in Oberhausen, Germany. At Celanese they also held Operations Manager rows from 2022 to 2024, and they were Global Reliability and Maintenance Leader at DuPont (2021–2022).
Erwan Janty
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Celanese
Erwan Janty has been Plant Manager at Celanese since October 2025, based in the Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area. They were also Plant Manager at Air Liquide (2022–2025), Responsable de la transformation at Air Liquide (2018–2022) and Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at Safran (2015–2018).
Frank Bagala
LinkedInExperience: Site Director · Celanese
Frank Bagala has been Site Director at Celanese since October 2019, based in Corpus Christi, Texas, and was Operations Manager there in 2019. They were also General Manager, Site Compounding at SABIC Innovative Plastics (2014–2019) and Plant Operations Manager at bp (2010–2013).
Jörg Reinhardt
LinkedInExperience: Site Director, Managing Director · Celanese
Jörg Reinhardt has been Site Director, Managing Director at Celanese since August 2025, based in Germany. At Celanese they were also Director Manufacturing, Managing Director (2023–2025), Director Manufacturing (2021–2023), Manufacturing Unit Leader (2018–2020) and Reliability Section Leader (2012–2018).
Jose Rojas
LinkedInExperience: Former Site Director · Celanese
Jose Rojas is a former Site Director at Celanese, a role held from July 2017 to March 2023, and has been Sr Director Manufacturing at Celanese since December 2025. At Celanese they were also Director of Operations (2023–2025) and General Manager Quality & Operations (2015–2017).
Larry Wolnik
LinkedInExperience: Site Director · Celanese
Larry Wolnik has been Site Director at Celanese since June 2020, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. At Celanese they were also Compounding Unit Leader (2018–2020), Chemicals and Shipping Services Section Leader (2016–2018), Utilities and Wastewater Section Leader (2014–2017) and LCP Section Leader (2011–2014).
Lourdes Melendez
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Celanese
Lourdes Melendez has been Plant Manager at Celanese since November 2022, based in Chesterfield, Virginia, and the profile headline reads Plant Leader. They were also Plant Manager at DuPont from September 2017 to November 2022 and list a Six Sigma Black Belt row at DuPont.
Mark Frels
LinkedInExperience: Former Site Director-Bay City Plant · Celanese
Mark Frels is a former Site Director-Bay City Plant at Celanese, a role held from May 2015 to July 2016, and the profile lists a Chemical Plant Manager-Retired row at Celanese from July 2016. At Celanese they were also Global Center of Reliability Excellence Leader (2011–2015), and Site Manager at Celanese Chemicals (2009–2011).
Robson Ornellas
LinkedInExperience: Site Director · Celanese
Robson Ornellas has been Site Director at Celanese since April 2025 and also held a Site Director row there from October 2024 to April 2025, based in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area. At Celanese they were also Senior Production Manager (2023–2024) and Production Manager (2019–2023).
Choose the right perspective
Look for the person whose own site role and earlier jobs inside plants come closest to the question you are trying to answer. Weigh how recently each person ran a site, because a leader in the job today and one who held it years ago will see different conditions.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What were your first priorities when you took over your site, and how did you set them?
- 02How do you divide your time between the plant floor and the business leaders you report to?
- 03Which earlier role inside a plant prepared you most for leading a whole site?
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