Coating & Thin Films Ops Lead (24/7)

Guardian Industries; Corsicana (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Life insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Job summary

Guardian Glass in Corsicana, TX seeks a Department Manager for Coating/Thin Films Operations to lead safety and manufacturing excellence in a 24/7 environment. You will drive vision, strategy and develop front-line leaders across the department.

You will coach teams, align them to safety, quality and productivity, and manage process controls to meet specifications while delivering improvements in efficiency and throughput.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and coaching experience in a 24/7 continuous manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or other STEM related field.
• Demonstrated experience aligning a team to safety, quality, cultural, and productivity expectations.
• Engineering experience in a manufacturing setting.
• Experience using statistical and systematic methods to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of supervisors, engineers, technicians, and manufacturing personnel to achieve safe, reliable, and predictable coater operations in a 24/7/365 manufacturing environment.
• Champion a proactive safety culture and ensure safe operating practices, risk assessments, training, and compliance with site and regulatory requirements across the coater department.
• Ensure coated products consistently meet internal specifications and customer requirements by maintaining effective process controls and driving resolution of quality and defect issues.
• Own coater manufacturing performance, establish clear performance targets, and drive accountability for results.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute high-value opportunities to improve coater efficiency, reduce manufacturing losses and cost, increase throughput and capacity, improve reliability, and expand product and process capabilities.
• Lead the continuous improvement of coater processes and equipment through data-driven problem solving, root-cause analysis, process optimization, and effective implementation of manufacturing and technical improvements.
• Partner with Maintenance and Engineering to improve equipment reliability, maximize uptime, eliminate chronic losses, and develop long-term strategies for critical coater assets.
• Develop and maintain a highly capable organization through effective hiring, coaching, performance management, technical training, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Lead capital and improvement projects that enhance coater capability via project management and Management of Change practices

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Statistical methods

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or STEM

Job description

Guardian Glass in Corsicana, TX seeks a Department Manager for Coating/Thin Films Operations to lead safety and manufacturing excellence in a 24/7 environment. You will drive vision, strategy and develop front-line leaders across the department.

You will coach teams, align them to safety, quality and productivity, and manage process controls to meet specifications while delivering improvements in efficiency and throughput.