Process Engineer – Automotive Glass Maintenance & Reliability

Pilkington North America Inc.; Shelbyville (IN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Company paid holidays

Paid vacations

Education assistance

Job summary

Pilkington North America Inc. in Shelbyville, IN, is seeking a full-time Maintenance Engineering Leader to support a 24/7 automotive glass facility. Regular presence on the production floor across all shifts, including off-shift, weekend, and holidays, is required.

You will supervise maintenance teams, drive predictive maintenance, manage spares, and coordinate shutdowns to minimize downtime and waste, applying Pilkington’s problem-solving approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technically related field.
• Minimum 3 years' experience successfully managing people in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt communication style to interact with a wide variety of people.

Responsibilities

• Develops/maintains/supervises/predictive maintenance systems to ensure optimum equipment reliability.
• Develops/maintains equipment FMEA’s to ensure that critical failure modes are identified and addressed.
• Audits preventative/predictive inspections and programs to ensure effectiveness.
• Participates in team analysis for problem solving of major breakdowns.
• Coordinates shutdowns for proper manning and materials needed.
• To organize and continually monitor the procurement of necessary spare parts to ensure machine uptime and capabilities.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Predictive maintenance

FMEA

Team management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

CNC controls experience

Fanuc controls experience

ABB robot experience

Fanuc robot experience

Job description

Pilkington North America Inc. in Shelbyville, IN, is seeking a full-time Maintenance Engineering Leader to support a 24/7 automotive glass facility. Regular presence on the production floor across all shifts, including off-shift, weekend, and holidays, is required.

You will supervise maintenance teams, drive predictive maintenance, manage spares, and coordinate shutdowns to minimize downtime and waste, applying Pilkington’s problem-solving approach.