Plant Engineering Manager

Owens Corning is seeking a Plant Engineering Manager to lead the technical strategy, process optimization, and engineering excellence at the Jackson manufacturing facility. This role reports to the Plant Manager, sits on the Plant Leadership Team, and partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, and EHS to improve safety, optimize quality, drive productivity, strengthen TPM execution, reduce waste, and deliver sustainable, data‑driven improvements. This role leads and develops a high‑impact engineering team while shaping the plant’s long‑term technical capability and performance.

The Jackson site is a critical and state-of-the-art facility producing Fiberglass materials for Owens Corning and external Customers.  This Engineering Manager Position leads a team of 5 Engineers directly as well as 13 indirect reports.

Reports to: Plant Leader, Jackson Plant

Span of control: (5) Manufacturing Engineers

Responsibilities:

 Lead safety and security for an injury free work environment

• Ensures a culture which enables a safe and secure work environment for all employees, contractors, and visitors.

• Ensures that all control plans, work instructions, and other procedures related to the technical operation of the production lines ensure the safety of employees.

• Ensures a clear and effective measurement system is followed and used to drive results; rewards and celebrates safe behavior and achievements; ensures accountability.

Know the business and our customers

• Developing and implementing procedures and systems to ensure products consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Supporting experiments or trials for new and existing products to ensure they meet customer’s fitness for use.

• Responsible for investigating all customer complaints, determining root causes, implementing corrective actions, and communicating with the customer.

Technical Excellence and Process Optimization

• Identify, lead, and implement process development improvements and new process developments utilizing TPM methodology at all times.
• Leader of Focused Improvement (FI) Pillar responsible for providing direction for process improvement projects
• Participate in the scope development and execution of all major projects, including rebuilds, to ensure safety, performance, schedule, and cost goals of the projects are met or exceeded utilizing EM principles and MOC.

Job Requirements:

 Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.

Experience:

• At least 7-10 years of progressive technical experience in a manufacturing environment
• Exposure to cross-functional team leadership or participation outside of manufacturing
• A history of hiring, growing, and promoting talent within the organization

Type of Industry:

• Experience meeting customer demands.
• Automotive, electronics, bulk industries

Knowledge and Skills:

• Continuously builds an intimate insight and knowledge of technical processes, production lines and their products.
• Understand what is necessary for the asset to be productive and the value that our current and future assets bring to the business.

• Utilize data and data collection systems, and Six Sigma methods for problem-solving and decision-making to eliminate manufacturing losses and unnecessary costs.
• Create and implement strategic and operations plans.
• Accomplish the goals of the business; translates strategies into actionable operating plans; sets goals for personal accomplishment; uses measurement methods to monitor progress; quickly overcomes barriers and adapts plans to ensure goal attainment.
• Understand that all business opportunities start with knowledge of how to create value for customer.
• Able to achieve results fast both individually and through teams.
• Customer orientation: Has an external perspective and understands that all business opportunities start with knowledge of how to serve our customers. 

 Travel

• Must be able to travel up to 5% of the time.

Benefits of Working at Owens Corning:

• 68 Consecutive years as a Fortune 500® Company
• $9.7 Billion in 2023 Sales Revenue
• Presence in 30 Countries with 18,000 employees 
• Health and Wellness Opportunities
• Adoption and Family Assistance- OC is committed to helping employees in their endeavor to build a family, including financial assistance for adoption and surrogacy
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) provides U.S. employees the opportunity to purchase Owens Corning stock at a 15 percent discount every six month
• Parental leave- Four weeks of paid time off for all new parents; this includes both mothers and fathers at the time of birth or the adoption of a child

A rebate program that allows employees to receive a rebate of up to $2,000 every four years for purchases of OC’s wide range of products for new construction or home improvement