Regional Glass Fabrication Ops Leader

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

Job summary

Guardian Glass seeks a Regional Fabrication Manager to join our OpEx team. The role focuses on optimizing tempering and cutting operations across North American plants, partnering with manufacturing sites to drive reliability, reduce downtime, and implement data-driven countermeasures.

The position supports plants across Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA, Carleton MI and Corsicana TX, with coaching of plant teams and collaboration with regional/global leaders. Travel up to 50% is expected.

Qualifications

• Engineering, tempering, and reliability experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience operating tempering lines, offline cutting tables, and edge delete.
• Willing and able to travel up to 50% domestically.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Operations to deliver regional bets for fabrication lines by proactively identifying risk and gaps in our operational capabilities, urgently troubleshooting downtime or failures, and building lasting countermeasures.
• 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

Travel readiness

Job description

Guardian Glass seeks a Regional Fabrication Manager to join our OpEx team. The role focuses on optimizing tempering and cutting operations across North American plants, partnering with manufacturing sites to drive reliability, reduce downtime, and implement data-driven countermeasures.

The position supports plants across Geneva NY, Richburg SC, DeWitt IA, Carleton MI and Corsicana TX, with coaching of plant teams and collaboration with regional/global leaders. Travel up to 50% is expected.