Position Description

Job Summary

Why work for us?

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home.

The Role - What's the job?

This is a staff position which has overall responsibility and accountability for the plant maintenance, tooling, automation, security, risk management, and engineering function of the McPherson, KS, CertainTeed plant, in the manufacture of Cedar Impressions Polymer Shakes.

• Responsible for the coordination of capital projects for the plant. Ensures streamlined technical writing to accelerate the approval process; creates visibility and ongoing focus to facilitate plant compliance with all requirements.
• Responsible for the Reliability department functions. Fosters a working culture that is focused on a proactive, preventive approach to machine reliability; ensures PM compliance and responsible for asset management, including adequate inventory of stock items and sourcing of non-standard items.
• Leads, coaches, and manages a team of engineers, reliability professionals, and technical support personnel. Develops and partners with HR to provide a skill development program.
• Develops and cultivates a "working safely" culture throughout the plant. Is responsible for the development and control of environmental, business continuity, and risk prevention programs.
• Drives a continuous improvement culture through the use of lean, six sigma, and other world class manufacturing tools - ensuring achievement of key metrics and cost reduction initiatives.
• Leads the plant's automation program; understands the value, business impact, and capabilities of collaborative, industrial, self-driving, and mobile industrial robots.
• Travel up to 25% for meetings, training, and collaboration with other Saint-Gobain sites and businesses.
• Typical working hours are Monday-Friday, 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM, with some after-hours accessibility.

Required Qualifications

Requirements

What do you bring?

• Education - Bachelor's degree required with degree in an engineering/technical discipline required.
• 4-7 years progressive management experience, including experience managing managers, supervisors, and/or engineering technical staff in a manufacturing environment required.
• 1-3 years supervising maintenance reliability teams required.
• Experience in managing CAPEX projects up to $10.0 M preferred.
• Demonstrated quantitative analysis skills; ability to translate technical data into proposals; critical and independent thinking; Management of Change experience; and above-average knowledge related to engineering disciplines, automation, and materials science.
• Ability to assess and develop people, hold individuals and team accountable, in accordance with department and individual objectives, resulting in a strong safety, environmental, employee relations, and operational performance.

Legal Statement

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.