Regional Glass Fabrication Lead: Tempering & Cutting

Guardian Industries; Kingsburg (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts

Health Savings Account

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Guardian Glass is seeking a Regional Fabrication Manager to join our OpEx team, coordinating with all Guardian manufacturing plants in the Americas to improve the operations of our fabrication lines (tempering and cutting).

This role can be based at any of the following float glass facilities: Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA, Carleton MI, or Corsicana TX, with up to 50% travel across North America to lead RCA, mentor plant teams, and drive reliability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Engineering, Tempering, and Reliability experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience operating different tempering line designs, offline cutting tables, and edge delete.
• Willing and able to travel up to 50% domestically.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Operations to deliver on the key bets in the region for our fabrication lines by identifying risk and gaps in operational capabilities.
• Urgently troubleshoot downtime or failures and build countermeasures through a robust problem-solving process.
• Lead RCAs, escalations, and countermeasure follow-up for plants with issues.
• Act as tempering and cutting SME: coach, train, and mentor plant teams to build capability.
• Partner cross-functionally and leverage knowledge resources accordingly.
• Drive knowledge sharing through documentation, audits, scalable training, and regular communication.
• Support on capital projects, asset care strategies, and Reliability efforts to improve safety, compliance, stability and efficiency.

Skills

Engineering

Tempering

Reliability

Travel

Job description

Guardian Glass is seeking a Regional Fabrication Manager to join our OpEx team, coordinating with all Guardian manufacturing plants in the Americas to improve the operations of our fabrication lines (tempering and cutting).

This role can be based at any of the following float glass facilities: Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA, Carleton MI, or Corsicana TX, with up to 50% travel across North America to lead RCA, mentor plant teams, and drive reliability initiatives.