Forming Engineer

Saverglass; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Saverglass in the United Arab Emirates seeks an IS Machine Specialist to ensure production and changeovers, optimize performance, safety, and quality across state-of-the-art manufacturing IS machines. The role involves supervising changeovers, tracking process parameters, and driving improvements.

You will coordinate with maintenance and hot end teams, report production output, and train staff to ensure defect-free output and adherence to quality standards.

Qualifications

• Significant IS Machine background (>5 yrs) in a hands-on role (blow and blow, or press and blow).
• Technical knowledge of thermal, hydraulics, pneumatics and mechanics.
• English spoken, understood, and written.
• Familiar with IT tools.
• Analytical skills.
• Safety and quality orientation, teamwork abilities.
• Leadership skills for supervision.

Responsibilities

• Supervise all product changeovers to maximize quality and ramp-up performance.
• Track operating standards on key manufacturing parameters (forehearth temperature, feeder mechanisms, IS Timer settings, equipment moves, lehr infeed, surface treatment).
• Monitor quality and performance losses; take immediate improvement actions.
• Provide hands-on technical problem-solving support.
• Interpret defects and provide solutions to avoid defects during production.
• Coordinate between IS Maintenance and Hot End teams during job changes.
• Provide production output reports when required.
• Ensure safety standards are followed; train colleagues accordingly.
• Supervise IS operators & Hot End Engineer; perform random quality checks.
• Ensure finished product quality via communication with cold end sorters and adherence to procedures.
• Lead operations when defects are detected; document actions with sheets and New Qualiglass software.
• Devise and conduct training programs for hot end staff.
• Maintain strong communication with cold end, Mould Shop, IS Maintenance and Batch & Furnace.
• Explain past and coming events, results, required actions, and priorities; propose solutions.
• Ensure standard setup check lists are available.
• Agree to perform other tasks for plant efficiency.

Skills

IS Machines

English

Analytical skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Safety orientation

Tools

IT tools

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Business Need/Purpose of the Role: Ensure production & changeovers, and optimize performance results (i.e safety, quality and output) on several state-of-the-art manufacturing IS machines, from feeder to lehr exit.

Key Responsibilities and Specific Accountabilities: (results this role is expected to accomplish)

• Get involved and supervise all product changeovers so to bring help and expertise to maximize quality and ramp-up performance.
• Optimize production with :
• Tracking of operating standards on key manufacturing parameters: forehearth temperature regulation and feeder mechanisms (gob shape), IS Timer settings, equipments moves, lehr infeed setting, hot end surface treatment
• Tracking quality and performance losses and making immediate necessary steps for improvement.
• Provides hands-on support with a technical bias for problem solving.
• Should be able to interpret defects & provide solutions to avoid all kinds of defects during production.
• Act as a coordinator between the IS Maintenance team and the Hot End Team during job changes.
• Should be able to provide the production output report whenever required.
• Ensure strict respect of safety standards by colleagues. Know and is able to comment and train for any of them.
• Supervise IS operators & Hot End Engineer, especially concerning hot end quality checks. Ensure awareness of specifications form for each manufactured article on shift, and perform random checks by himself to prevent excesses.
• Ensure finished products top level quality through efficient communication with cold end sorters whenever machine events create defects. Strictly respects quality defined procedures.
• Leads necessary operations whenever defects are detected both in hot or cold end. Ensure action efficiency and tracability through control and written reporting with defined tools (sheets, New Qualiglass software)
• Devise and conduct training programs for all hot end staff.
• Maintain and develop high communication standards with cold end, Mould Shop, IS Maintenance and Batch & Furnace.
• Get involved in production management routines: be able to explain past and coming events, know results and required actions and priorities, and be able to propose and perform solutions.
• Ensure that standard set-up check list is available.
• Agree on doing all other tasks that may be required for plant efficient operation.

Preferred candidate profile

• Significant IS Machine background (> 5 yrs) in a hands-on highly qualified position. All types of processes will be considered (blow and blow preferable, but press and blow machines concerned as well). State-of-the-art machines equipped and high quality proven policy industry would be considered as a key advantage
• Technical knowledge of thermal, hydraulics,pneumatics and mechanics.
• English spoken, understood, and written.
• Familiar with IT tools.
• Analytical skills.
• Safety and quality orientation, teamwork abilities.
• Leadership skills required for supervision positions.