Sr Engineering Specialist

The Sr Engineering Specialist is responsible for the coordination of communicating customer specifications to the production team and ensures the product meets customer needs. This position will focus on initiating and implementing technical improvements, preventing, and resolving technical problems, and assessing the capabilities of the processes.

Reports to: Technical Engineering Leader

Span of Control: Direct leadership of one hourly employee

• Adhere and promote all plant safety policies, procedures, and standards. Define, enable, and implement all and position-specific safety policies, procedures, and standards.
• Manage safety risks in area of responsibility to define and implement complete and sustainable solutions.
• Uses science and engineering principles to drive process understanding and identify where the biggest process improvement opportunities exist.
• Provides expertise regarding the relationship between process parameters, operational performance, and product properties.
• Develops and implements innovative ideas that provide step-change quality or productivity improvements for manufacturing.
• Identifies and recommends opportunities for improved cost or product performance from a process perspective.
• Uses statistical methods to validate improvements to process and product.
• Uses standard and methodical problem-solving tools (RCA, 5-why, etc.) to analyze problems and define robust root causes and corrective actions.
• Uses standard and methodical tools to track actions and activities to create transparency and accountability.
• Partners with 3rd party suppliers or technical institutions to develop new processes.
• Plans, schedules, conducts, and coordinates assigned engineering work on-schedule and in good quality.
• Ensures effective communication and coordination on assigned work between all disciplines and stakeholders.
• Applies sound technical engineering practices towards the completion of engineering projects and requests for engineering services to accomplish Plant & Corporate objectives within the established policies and procedures.
• Manage capital projects to include justification, job scope definition, bidding, budgeting, scheduling, implementation, risk management, follow-up (spare parts, PMs, training, etc.).
• Communicate effectively in multiple formats to team members with various backgrounds.
• Develops, updates, and delivers effective training materials and work instructions while also gauging compliance to ensure understanding and proper application.
• Strong contribution and participation in TPM systems (5S, AM, PM, FI, etc.).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or chemical Engineering or related field or experience equivalent preferred.
• 2-4 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, glass manufacturing and furnace process experience preferred.
• Experience with Total Productive Maintenance methodology and implementation and/or Lean certification preferred.
• 1-2 years of experience in coordinating and managing tasks with hourly technicians is preferred.
• 1-2 years of experience in managing capital projects and/or automation integration.

EXPERIENCE:

• Utilize Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, PowerBI.
• Prefer SAP for data entry and reporting.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Influence through personal power

• Ability to interact and lead to achieve objectives.
• Strong listening and comprehension skills.

Collaborate and foster teamwork.

• Partners with people both within and outside the immediate work team to generate ideas, solve problems, and garner different perspectives.
• Builds cooperation and commitment to establish and achieve mutually determined plans and decisions.
• Communicates to ensure clarity around goals, objectives, and expectations.
• Celebrates team success.

Project management skills

• Change agent: comfortable with 'what could be' mindset, innovative and able to drive change by fostering teamwork and engaging others.
• Act on analysis: data driven, ability to integrate information into a conceptual whole and acts after conducting an insightful analysis and an in-depth evaluation of the pros/cons of alternatives.
• External perspective and understands that all business opportunities start with the knowledge of how to create value for the customer.
• Manage work: Organizes, plans and sets priorities based upon deadlines, timelines and what is considered most critical and beneficial for the company.
• Sets the best course of action and aggressively implements plans to achieve timely and efficient results.
• Promotes reliability and dependability by following-through and verifying the needs of others are satisfied.

About Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com.

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.