Senior Glass Furnace Engineer

Senior Glass Furnace Engineer

Work From Home (Remote) US

Johns Manville is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium‑quality insulation and commercial roofing, along with glass fibers and nonwovens for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Our products are used in a wide variety of industries including building products, aerospace, automotive and transportation, filtration, commercial interiors, waterproofing and wind energy.

A proud member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, we serve customers in more than 80 countries around the globe. We are committed to delivering positive and powerful experiences, because we are successful only when our employees and customers thrive. We are passionate, we care about people, we perform at a superior level, and we protect others and our environments.

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This is the base salary pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire. Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors. In addition, this position is eligible for an incentive bonus.

Johns Manville is currently seeking qualified applicants for the position of Sr. Glass Engineer in the Furnace Technology team as part of the Engineering & Process Research organization. This role plays a key part in supporting furnace operations and glass production. Responsibilities include utilizing glass‑making furnace experience to guide projects to cost‑effective, best‑practice designs that ensure successful outcomes with respect to quality, technology, cost, and schedule.

The engineer will apply knowledge of refractory properties and glass‑making operations to address furnace life‑expectancy issues and hot‑repair requirements.

Ideal candidates will have a working knowledge of furnace operations, capital project management, and glass fiber production processes, experience in design and engineering of glass operations, and willingness to work directly with JM production facilities and Engineering & Process Research groups. A key aspect of this role is identifying scope and justifying potential new furnace technology opportunities and benefits. Collaboration, self‑drive, determination, and passion for results are important attributes.

• Develop and manage budgets, schedules, scopes, deliverables, forecasts, cash flows, execution, and reporting to meet the project objectives and deliver the expected benefits to the organization, for multi‑discipline industrial manufacturing capital projects worldwide.
• Develop, guide, review, and present project feasibility studies and business cases that accurately identify project benefits, risks, and returns.
• Utilize glass‑making furnace experience to guide projects to cost‑effective, best‑practice designs ensuring successful quality, technology, cost, and schedule outcomes.
• Employ working knowledge of refractory properties to ensure optimal refractories are used in projects to meet life‑expectancy and financial goals.
• Provide technical supervision to refractory related developments, including identification, qualification and testing of new refractory vendors and materials.
• Apply working knowledge of glass‑making operations to assist with ongoing furnace life‑expectancy issues and hot‑repair requirements.
• Develop technical specifications and contracts for materials, equipment, and services for all aspects of projects and ensure compliance.
• Coordinate, review, provide oversight, and manage external engineering resources, consultants, and contractors as needed to meet project objectives.
• Design environmentally compliant processes and specify environmentally compliant equipment, ensuring that all permit requirements are considered and addressed, and potential environmental issues are identified and addressed during project execution.
• Design safe processes and specify equipment, ensuring that ergonomics is considered, and potential safety and health hazards are identified and eliminated during project execution.
• Ensure that all safety policies and procedures are followed, driving a zero‑incident project environment.

• Bachelor of Science…