To develop and maintain an energized environment where employees work together to safely produce quality products that meet our customers’ requirements and maximize company growth and earnings.

The position reports to: Plant Leader, Asphalt, and is responsible for the daily process plant operation – including goals of Safety, Environmental compliance, Reliability and Quality, through employee development.

Live the Safety stand, adhere to the safety responsibilities.

• Implement a personal safety action plan, review with leader and consistently display safe work habits.
• Ensure direct reports are fully engaged around proactive safety responsibilities (BBS, Wearing proper PPE, Training, Job Planning, Near Miss reporting, and consistent safe work actions)
• Take ownership of implementing a safety culture that exemplifies our stand that “All accidents are preventable”
• Ensure the safety of all personnel through constant and consistent management of workplace conditions and employee behaviors.
• Ensures the plant is in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identifies hazards, including housekeeping issues, and resolves them.

Coach and Develop Primary Workforce to reach their full potential

• Perform regular performance review meetings with employees one-on-one to ensure they have all the resources to perform their jobs. Understand direct reports’ career goals, removing any obstacles to ensure employees have impactful and meaningful work to perform each day that provides enrichment and fulfillment.
• Find ways to ensure production employees understand the need of the customer and that they can see how their work affects the customer directly.
• Perform and ensure proper documentation of training and cross training of all employees as necessary to maintain a flexible work environment capable of meeting varied demands. Ensure technical competence of employees.
• Encourage all employees to build strong working relationships and communication through sharing, respect, candor, integrity, innovation, accountability, and fun.

Provide excellent communications and planning

• Facilitate development and implementation of data collection and process control in order to enhance manufacturing processes. Lead TPM efforts and teams to get plant employee-generated improvements.
• Perform value-added daily huddles that enhance safe, quality and optimized quality and productivity.
• Use electronic systems for all employees on plant communications, and ensure employees regularly utilize company-provided systems to maintain current on plant/division/company information disseminated through that resource.
• Personally lead, engage in and encourage direct reports to engage in voice of the employee continuous improvement activities. Drive to root cause solution of process issues to diminish repeating problems relentlessly.

Consistently deliver to target and stretch goals of performance

• Review all plant/division/company goals with team and ensure each understands the activity required to deliver to these expectations. Make sure each person understands how their daily work actions tie in to the achievement of these goals.
• Achieves operational excellence in safety, customer service, quality, cost control, diversity, engagement, and regulatory compliance.

 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (Business or Engineering preferred).
• Previous experience with asphalt preferred
• 3+ years of experience in an industrial/manufacturing setting, directly supervising others.
• Solid manufacturing experience required:  plant production, maintenance leadership; Asphalt manufacturing experience preferred.
• People leadership –proven track record required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Computer literacy – MRP systems (i.e. SAP) and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point)
• Strong leadership competencies
• TPM Experience (Previous Lean and Kaizen experience, Green Belt or Black Belt Certification)
• Leadership Presence
• Acts on Analysis
• Thinks Strategically
• Competitively Drive Results
• Teamwork

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About Owens Corning  

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com. 

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.