Regional Glass Fabrication Leader: Elevate Tempering

Guardian Industries; DeWitt (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Glass is seeking a Regional Fabrication Manager to guide and optimize tempering and cutting operations across North American plants. You will partner with regional and global ops leaders to elevate fabrication line performance and reliability.

The role emphasizes hands-on coaching, problem-solving, and collaboration within an OpEx-driven team, with significant travel and a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency across facilities.

Qualifications

• Engineering, Tempering, and Reliability experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience operating different designs of tempering lines, 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 proactively identifying risk and gaps in our operational capabilities, urgently troubleshooting downtime or failures, and building lasting countermeasures through a robust problem-solving process
• Provide immediate support for plants struggling with operational or quality issues by leading RCAs, escalations, and countermeasure follow-up
• Act as the tempering and cutting SME: coach, train, and mentor the plant teams to build capability
• Partner cross-functionally leverage knowledge resources accordingly
• Drive knowledge sharing through documentation, audits, scalable training, and regular communication
• Support on capital projects, asset care strategies, and other Reliability efforts that will improve the safety, compliance, stability and efficiency of our fabrication lines
• Travel up to 50% (North America)

Skills

Engineering

Tempering

Reliability

Job description

Guardian Glass is seeking a Regional Fabrication Manager to guide and optimize tempering and cutting operations across North American plants. You will partner with regional and global ops leaders to elevate fabrication line performance and reliability.

The role emphasizes hands-on coaching, problem-solving, and collaboration within an OpEx-driven team, with significant travel and a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency across facilities.