Regional Coater Leader

Your Job

Guardian Glass is looking for a Regional Coater Technical Manager or Director to join our team!

This role can be based out of Carleton, MI or Auburn Hills, MI.

In this role, you are responsible for ensuring that our coater operations are performing to the designed parameters.

We are upgrading and incorporating technologies that improve quality and performance and provide us a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Join our team and apply your technical skills and passion to balance a complex array of opportunities in Guardian's global portfolio.

Our Team

We are a principled based company that relies heavily on teamwork and ingenuity.

We pride ourselves on being the partner of choice for our internal and external customers.

What You Will Do


* Develop and deploy proven practices for operating and running our thin film coaters


* Improve quality, performance and throughput of coaters in the region


* Support sites to overcome challenges by following a disciplined process of problem solving


* Serve as a leader in change management when new thin film technologies/ products are launched or transferred globally


* Serve as a Technical SME to the production coating teams to troubleshoot process or product issues in facilities with regard to new/transferred technologies and products


* Bring outside perceptions, best practices and opportunities to improve our process technology capability


* Understand and apply a structured review of our process technology/ product launches through Stage Gate methodology


* Clearly present and communicate ideas, concepts, and plans across multiple levels


* Work in multi-cultural and functional teams globally


* Collaborate in a matrixed organization on new thin film process technology, product launches and product transfers

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience in operating large area vacuum coaters in a 24x7 environment


* Experience leading a group of engineers, scientists and technicians


* Experience in thin film science and technology using vacuum sputtering techniques


* Experience with experimental design and statistics

What Will Put You Ahead


* Master's Degree in Materials Science, Engineering, or Physics


* Experience in thin film and vacuum related technologies focusing on magnetron sputtering process


* Experience with on-line characterization tools such as Zeiss, DTMs (Digital Transmission Monitoring), RGA (Residual Gas Analyzer), Plasma characterization and coating inspection systems such as Dr.

Schenk or ISRA Vision


* Experience with thin film optical coating and associated tools (TF Calc, Optilayer, Essential McLeod, Ellipsometer or other thin film modeling packages)

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