Regional Fabrication Manager

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


* Tempering leadership experience


* 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 products in the field


* 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

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