Melting Tank Supervisor

Why join us? At Corelle Brands (i.e., Anchor Hocking) we are passionate about products that bring joy and ease to our customers in cooking and sharing food with family and friends. Corelle Brands is home to category-leading brands, including Corelle, Corningware, Anchor Hocking, Chicago Cutlery, Fire-King, Lucaris and Ocean. We are looking for candidates who are smart, curious, creative, push the limits of what is possible and are passionate about our brands. We embrace and respect diverse backgrounds, and welcome new ideas.

Our continuous focus on growth and innovation means you will become part of a global company that offers challenging opportunities, rewards excellence, and combines your individual expertise to achieve a higher level of shared success. We operate within a fast-paced, team-oriented, rewarding work environment that allows our employees to develop and thrive.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits within a flexible, creative, and progressive work setting. Join Corelle Brands and become a part of our story. Everyone matters here.

Position Summary:

Supervise the operation of designated melting furnaces and associated equipment. To provide technical leadership to the Melting Department to improve process yields, reduce nonconformities, and reduce product cost. This is accomplished through data analysis, experimental plans, process capability studies, and variability reduction. Provide leadership and management of assigned functional responsibility such as Glass Composition, Precious Metals and Melting Critical Spares.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor daily operations ensuring process stability and shift-to-shift operational consistency. Characterize and optimize daily operations.
• Correlate glass quality and operational problems with process variables.
• Provide training, coaching, and assessing in accordance with ISO standards for furnace/forehearth operators and other Melting personnel.

• Ensure compliance with all safety and housekeeping guidelines.
• Inspect process equipment and ensure problems are identified and addressed in a timely matter.
• Work closely with the Forming department as required to ensure maximum percentage select.
• Maintain and enforce the SOS system for the assigned unit.
• Support tank repairs and start-ups.

• Cross train between melting units to provide vacation, weekend, and off-shift coverage.
• Determine and institute job change set-ups coordinating with Forming to minimize downtime and cullet at start-up.
• Track downtime, cullet, quality, tank efficiency, and refractory wear rate ensuring objectives for each area are met.
• Ensure compliance with ISO standards for assigned area.

• Ensure all equipment is properly maintained and back-ups are operational.
• To drive accountability into the operators and Tank maintenance.

• Develop experimental plans for process improvement.
• Uses statistics to analyze process variables.
• Standardize process procedures in the department.

• Support the Melting Department through weekly on-call and weekend team coverage.

• Support project team with tank expansion, tank start-ups, and tank drains.
• Oversee Melting Department maintenance projects.
• Support Forming Department projects.
• Support the Engineering team.

• Ability to set and meet project objectives and schedules.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum four-year degrees in Chemical Engineering, Ceramic Engineering, Glass or other related engineering background or equivalent experience in a Melting or Process Engineering function.
• Knowledge and experience with manufacturing processes and equipment, measurement systems, and controls.
• Excellent data management, data analysis, and spreadsheet skills.
• Experience with SAP a plus.
• Collaborator with outstanding engagement and communication skills. Ability to direct and prioritize processes/project’s needs.
• Experience with high temperature thermal processes preferred (i.e., Melting, Forming or high temperature furnaces).
• Experience with data processing and statistical analysis preferred.
• Travel requirement at an approximate <5%.

Our Values : We drive results and create value together One Team - We love our Consumers We “Wow” Them - We challenge each other, always have an open mindset and welcome new ideas - We are a Global Company, and we think globally - We have integrity in all that we do.

Corelle Brands is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected status. Members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

No Recruiters, please!

Comp Range: $75k- $78,7k

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.