Regional Glass Fabrication Leader - Tempering SME

Guardian Industries; Carleton (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Glass, a Koch company, seeks a Regional Fabrication Manager to join the OpEx team and improve fabrication line operations (tempering and cutting) across Guardian plants in the Americas.

The role can be based at any US float glass facility including Carleton MI, Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA or Corsicana TX. You will partner with regional and global leaders to build capability, troubleshoot downtime, and drive standard work; travel up to 50% is required.

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, a Koch company, seeks a Regional Fabrication Manager to join the OpEx team and improve fabrication line operations (tempering and cutting) across Guardian plants in the Americas.

The role can be based at any US float glass facility including Carleton MI, Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA or Corsicana TX. You will partner with regional and global leaders to build capability, troubleshoot downtime, and drive standard work; travel up to 50% is required.