Manufacturing Tech & Analytics Transformation Lead

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Manufacturing Technology & Analytics Leader is responsible for identifying, deploying, and enabling the use of manufacturing technologies and analytics across the Roofing network.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Manufacturing Technology & Analytics Leader is responsible for identifying, deploying, and enabling the use of manufacturing technologies and analytics across the Roofing network.

This role serves as a change agent, focused on ensuring digital tools, analytics, and technologies are successfully delivered into plants and effectively utilized by site teams to support safety, quality, stability, productivity, and cost goals.

This position partners closely with Digital Manufacturing, Data & Analytics, IT/OT, and other enterprise teams, serving as the primary Roofing point of contact, while translating enterprise platforms into practical, plant-ready solutions.

Success in this role is defined by deployment, adoption, and effective utilization of tools, rather than direct ownership of site performance results.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP

Reports to: Director Stable Operations

Span of Control: No direct reports; broad influence across Roofing manufacturing sites and enterprise functions

Location: Located within driving distance an Asphalt Shingles Manufacturing Site:
Atlanta, GA;
Brookville, IN;
Compton, CA;
Denver, CO;
Irving, TX;
Jacksonville, FL;
Kearny, NJ;
Medina, OH;
Memphis, TN;
Minneapolis, MN;
Portland, OR;
Savannah, GA;
Summit, IL

Preferred Location: Owens Corning World Headquarters, Toledo, OH;
Owens Corning Science and Technology, Granville, OH.

Travel Requirement: 50%-70%

Matrix Organization: This role works closely with Division Stable Operations, Digital Manufacturing, Data & Analytics, IT/OT, Reliability, Engineering, Product Management, and other functions.

Key Accountabilities

• This role is accountable for deploying, scaling, and enabling adoption of manufacturing technology and analytics solutions across Roofing manufacturing facilities. The role ensures tools are in place, accessible, and effectively used by plant teams.
• This role also serves as the primary interface between Roofing and enterprise digital and analytics teams, aligning priorities and driving execution across the network.

• Ensure a safe work environment through employee coaching and engagement. Champion Owens Corning’s Safety Stand across all manufacturing technology and analytics initiatives. Ensure new technologies, analytics solutions, automation, and digital tools are designed and deployed with safety as a core requirement. Effectively communicate safety expectations to internal teams and external partners.

• Lead the identification, evaluation, and deployment of manufacturing technologies across the Roofing network.
• Focus on delivering technologies into plants and enabling effective usage, rather than direct ownership of results.
• Partner with plant leadership to ensure tools are aligned to operational needs and usable in daily work.
• Support standardization and scalability, avoiding one-off or site-specific solutions.

• Lead a disciplined approach for pilot, validation, rollout, and scaling of digital tools and analytics.
• Ensure tools are successfully deployed across sites and embedded into operations.
• Provide hands-on support, coaching, and guidance to drive adoption at the plant level.
• Ensure solutions are practical, simple, and used by frontline teams.
• Drive replication of successful solutions across the network.
• Ensure appropriate governance, documentation, and sustainment plans are in place to support long-term use.

• Enable deployment and use of analytics tools to improve visibility, decision-making, and structured problem solving.
• Ensure analytics outputs are accessible, understandable, and used by plant teams.
• Partner with enterprise teams to ensure strong data quality and scalable analytics capability.
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