Electrical, Controls & IT Leader

Original Composites and Fibers is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, we now operate independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.

With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to redefining what’s possible through a performance-driven culture centered on safety, quality, sustainability, inclusiveness, and employee development. Guided by our values of passion, ownership, and team spirit, we work together to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional service across the globe.

Original Composites & Fiberglass is seeking an experienced Electrical, Controls & IT Leader to provide strategic and operational leadership for electrical systems, controls engineering, automation, and site information technology at our Amarillo facility. Reporting to the Plant Leader, this role will improve equipment reliability, process stability, cybersecurity discipline, manufacturing productivity, and operational performance through strong technical leadership and disciplined execution.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on leader with solid automation knowledge who can connect electrical reliability, control systems, plant technology, and business priorities. The plant electricians will report directly to this position. This leader will also oversee the site IT department of one, provide leadership for controls engineering, develop technical capability, and partner across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Regional functions to modernize systems and sustain results.

• Champion the plant safety culture and integrate safety into electrical, controls, automation, and IT decisions.
• Ensure electrical work, control-system changes, and technology solutions comply with company standards, regulatory requirements, and applicable electrical codes.
• Identify and mitigate electrical, machine-safety, automation, operational-technology, and cybersecurity risks.
• Support incident investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, lockout/tagout, machine safeguarding, and safe work around energized equipment.

• Provide direct people leadership for the plant electricians, including work priorities, safe execution, performance expectations, technical development, and accountability.
• Develop and execute the site electrical reliability strategy for critical infrastructure and production equipment.
• Establish preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance practices for electrical systems and components.
• Lead troubleshooting and permanent resolution of recurring electrical failures, chronic losses, and equipment instability.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance to prioritize work orders, outage activities, spare-parts strategies, and reliability improvements.
• Use data and structured problem solving to improve uptime, equipment availability, OEE, and plant reliability.

• Provide technical leadership for PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, drives, instrumentation, industrial networks, vision systems, robotics, and manufacturing-control technologies.
• Develop and maintain standards for programming, system architecture, backups, documentation, change management, and lifecycle support.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities that improve safety, quality, productivity, process stability, and reliability.
• Lead structured troubleshooting of complex…