Regional Glass Fabrication Manager

Guardian Industries; Richburg (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Guardian Glass, a Koch company, is seeking a Regional Fabrication Manager to optimize operations across its North American fabrication lines, including tempering and cutting, in coordination with the OpEx team.

You will partner with Guardian plants across the Americas to drive reliability, quality, and process improvements, serving as the SME for tempering and cutting and traveling up to 50% to support sites.

Qualifications

• Engineering, Tempering, and Reliability experience in 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 key bets for fabrication lines, identifying risks and gaps, troubleshooting downtime, and building countermeasures.
• Provide rapid support for plants with operational or quality issues by leading RCAs, escalations, and follow-up.
• Act as the tempering and cutting SME: coach, train, and mentor plant teams to build capability.
• Partner cross-functionally to leverage knowledge resources accordingly.
• Drive knowledge sharing through documentation, audits, scalable training, and regular communication.
• Support capital projects, asset care strategies, and reliability efforts to improve safety, compliance, stability and efficiency of fabrication lines.
• Travel up to 50% (North America)

Skills

Engineering experience

Tempering lines

Reliability engineering

Travel up to 50%

Job description

Your Job

Guardian Glass is looking for a Regional Fabrication Manager to join our OpEx team! This role can be based out of any of the following float glass facilities in the United States: Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA, Carleton MI, Corsicana TX. In this role, you will be responsible for working directly with all Guardian manufacturing plants in the Americas to improve the operations of our fabrication lines (tempering and cutting). You will work in a collaborative setting and partner with other regional and global leaders in operations and OpEx to improve the capabilities of our team.

Our Team

You will be part of a contribution motivated team, working within a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and challenge with respect and humility to deliver superior results for our internal and external customers.

What You Will Do

• 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)

Who You Are (Basic 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

What Will Put You Ahead

• Understanding of the quality requirements of our customers and the applications of our fabricated glass
• Understanding of glass optics and on-line quality measurement tools
• In-depth knowledge of ASTM C1048, for the compliance of tempering products

For this role we anticipate paying $120,000 - $150,000 per year.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).