Regional Hot End Leader - North America

Job Description

Job Description

About Us
Original Composites and Fiberglass is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, the business now operates independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.

Purpose of the Role
As a member of the Global Hotend Team in the Technology and Capital Delivery Org, the North America Regional Hot End Leader role is the technical champion for OCF regional, the minerals, melting, analytic labs, ensuring a quality glass is being manufactured in stable operations to meet or exceed our customer expectations and sustainability strategy (energy, environment and recycle). The Regional Hotend Leader establishes and maintains accurate process standards for minerals and melting to safely, accurately, and efficiently produces glass and products that consistently meet codes, specifications, and customer requirements in the competitive cost platform under supervision of Global Hotend Leader guidance.

Job Responsibilities
Lead for Safety Excellence

• Ensure a safe, clean and environmentally compliant work environment and building a safety culture of zero defects at regional plant visit
• Ensure that all control plans, work instructions, and other procedures related to the technical operation of hotend identify and mitigate safety risks
• Maintain focus on safety behavior
• Use TPM methodologies to continue march to zero incidents
• Adhere to and continuously improve all safety policies, procedures, and standards

Expertise on Hot End Processes

• Experience with continuous and batch processes (i.e. glass, food, steel, automotive)
• Experience with glass melting, various combustion processes and onsite hot work
• Ability to control melting processes via remote and trouble analytic skill
• Understanding glass chemistry and batch making process
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex operations including multiple products, processes and departments
• Ability to manage projects/initiatives at multiple sites

Leading and Developing Talent

• Creates teamwork to maximize the performance of the enterprise and the development of people, focused on building an integrated and collaborative team
• Effectively train, assess, and develop plant hot end technical talent in the region
• Develop technical network creating pipeline of talent for both plants and regional
• Arrange the resources (Regional/plant) to provide process expertise when/where needed
• Improve plant Hot End technical capabilities through knowledge transfer
• Engaged in personal development
• Regarded by the employees of the enterprise as a role model for their growth, development, and conduct

Best-in-Class Processes and Standardization

• Define standards for producing equivalent products around the world considered the Best-in-Class. These processes will provide cost performance and stability.
• Collaborate with Operations, Innovation, Capital Delivery, Safety, TPM & other teams to define and execute standard/Best-in-Class processes
• Lead global CPVs updating and tracking for plants performances stability
• Lead best practice evaluation/implementation at regional plants
• Drive effective operations and processes with a preventative and continuous improvement mindset
• Support implementation of corrective actions and tracking with plants furnace engineers for issues
• Analyze process data, provide feedback on performance and trends, and make recommendations to optimize performance at each regional area.

Develop and Deploy the Global Hotend Strategy

• Deploy technical vision at regional Hot End, in support of the OCF Global TEC strategy – Operational Excellence
• Be the Technical process expert for Hot End; assuring world class process outcomes that deliver a competitive advantage in the regions we serve
• Utilize TPM methodology including PM analysis, linking all pillars to facilitate and deliver results
• Identify gaps impacting primary metrics utilizing loss trees. Work with plants to develop/Implement actions consistent with TPM methodology
• Drive benchmark productivity (NE/CE)
• Active involvement in delivering successful launch and sustainability of special projects (i.e rebuild, expansion, hot repair)
• Establish standardized routines and processes to ensure process management
• Plant key metrics tracking/closure - Drive KAIs and KPIs for the Hot End
• Improve plant efficiency measures through execution of Hot End Technical Standards

Execution of Melting Innovation & Sustainability

• Introduce and implement energy-efficient melting technology through decarbonized minerals, melter/frontend design and melting setup in an association with carbon emission category under hotend leader guidance
• Execute the minerals of the recycles, byproduct and decarbonized out of the conventional geological minerals platform.
• Execute the melting innovation through advanced technologies that stretches energy intensity and melting pull rate.
• Implement the digitalize batch and melting process incl. PdM function.
• Execute the enables circular economy of sustainability in melting process, recycle of scrap glass, customer takeback and End of Life materials according to strategy of company

Acquire and Transfer Knowledge

• Accumulate and record new and past knowledge from experts
• Acquire new knowledge on analyzing lessons learned on upset and improvement
• Analyze gaps on knowledge and request help from Innovation or other teams to launch studies for filling these gaps

Collaboration and Influence

• Ensures that process and system requirements changes are communicated and coordinated with the appropriate Information Systems
• Ensuring alignment with Commercial, Finance, Operations, Customer Fulfillment, and Innovations on key actions, manufacturing targets and projects goals
• Ability to persevere in the face of challenges, and exhibit a steadfast resolve and relentless commitment to higher standards, which commands respect from others
• Share best practices across division
• Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
• Inspire trust and followership in others through compelling influence, passion in his/her beliefs, and active drive
• Create a sense of purpose/meaning for the team that engages others to the greater purpose for the organization as a whole
• Encourage others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrate/support the success of the team

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in mechanics, thermodynamics or glass preferred, Chemical engineering
• Demonstrated ability to influence others through effective communications and working relationships across diverse functional and plants
• Skilled in upset analysis, problem solving and decision making
• Skilled in data analysis and data driven for decision making
• Fluid in continuous improvement methodologies and operation systems (TPM, Lean, 6 Sigma)
• International experience is preferred
• Ability to travel regionally/globally with 40% baseline and focus on a certain period of higher dedication as needed; will fluctuate depending on projects

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Change agent – Works well with teams, Comfortable designing for the future, while managing day-to-day project requirements. Never satisfied with status-quo, continually striving for excellence. Ability to operate and execute effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and challenging deadlines.
• Results Oriented - Energetic, resourceful, with strong service orientation and positive can-do attitude. Fully committed to the job and to delivering outstanding results.
• Strategic Thinker - Forward-thinking and creative individual with the ability to take difficult situations and turn them into positive opportunities.
• Highly Ethical - Can be trusted to do only the “right thing” for the company, shareholders, and others. Follows a balanced approach without compromising integrity
• Forward Thinking Leader - ability to motivate, led by example, and encourage teamwork and effective communication
• Demonstrated analytical ability accompanied by superior presentation skills