Manufacturing Engineer

Purpose of the Job

The Manufacturing Engineer demonstrates teamwork and commitment to the success of Owens Corning. The Manufacturing Engineer is a recognized leader that demonstrates Owens Corning’s values and a commitment to high performance. This role is responsible for ensuring that all process parameters are centered and within control within a 24/7/365 facility. He/she will understand the relationship between process parameters and product performance and will be able to adjust the process to ensure optimal product performance, as well as an optimal efficiency and cost.

He/she will conduct studies and experiments to define process variables that allow maintaining product specifications in a consistent and controlled manner. He/she will lead projects to improve the performance of the process and/or product, from the existing base. He/she will lead studies and projects that focus on the performance of equipment and systems to ensure they operate in optimal conditions and that they are adequate for our requirements.

He/she will lead and make modifications to equipment and systems to improve them, make them safer and more efficient. This role will live a culture of ZERO accidents, ZERO defects, ZERO losses.

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market‑leading innovator that has placed on the Fortune 500®. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe.

A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within every employee, we aspire to build market‑leading businesses;

global in scope – human in scale.

Technical Leader

Direct or indirect reports include approximately 1–15 hourly operators per shift (depending on area ownership).

• Own a process area dependent on current operational needs and candidate qualifications.
• Ensure that the process operation is carried out safely with ZERO accidents.
• Contribute to the area’s environmental indicator.
• Ensure that the process operation is carried out with ZERO defects by leading coworkers and the extended team to this culture.
• Ensure that the process and quality parameters are centered and random.
• Understand and translate product requirements into process variables.
• Participate in huddles and communication meetings, communicating the main quality points.
• Ensure all the quality documents/processes are updated (i.e., control plan) and review and update the items to be audited per the process control plan.
• Ensure alignment of specific customer requirements.
• Control process variables to ensure product performance and achieve NE, production, and cost goals.
• Lead, participate, and support the team on focused improvement projects that contribute to better process performance, eliminating waste and reducing variability through kaizens, workshops, and other TPM tools.
• Lead, participate, and support other local, regional, and global processes in related projects to improve efficiency, cost, and introduction of new products, etc.
• Validate that action plans are generated and monitored.
• Integrate multidisciplinary teams for the elimination of losses.
• Communicate the action plans derived from root‑cause analysis for the improvement of the area.
• Conduct daily huddles following the SQDC system to ensure communication permeates all members of the team.
• Promote and actively participate in the application of TPM methodologies in the elimination of losses.
• Ensure the development of key personnel and positions by identifying and evaluating the area’s job descriptions.
• Prepare courses required for…