Sr Engineering Specialist

Owens Corning•Jackson, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Engineering Specialist (Forming/Process Parts) is responsible for coordinating customer specifications with the production team to ensure products meet customer needs. This role focuses on initiating and implementing technical improvements, resolving technical problems, and assessing process capabilities. The position involves managing safety risks, using science and engineering principles for process understanding and improvement, and providing expertise on the relationship between process parameters, operational performance, and product properties. The specialist will develop and implement new ideas for quality or productivity improvements, identify cost or product performance enhancements, and use statistical methods to validate improvements. They will employ standard problem-solving tools (RCA, 5-why) to analyze issues and define corrective actions, track actions for transparency, and partner with external suppliers or institutions for new process development. The role includes planning and coordinating engineering work, ensuring effective communication among disciplines and stakeholders, applying sound engineering practices for projects, and managing capital projects from justification to implementation. Additionally, the specialist will develop and deliver training materials, ensure compliance, and contribute to TPM systems (5S, AM, PM, FI). Within the Process Parts Team, responsibilities include documenting processes, training the team, ensuring customer satisfaction, developing procedures to meet customer expectations, supporting product experiments, leading and managing direct reports, establishing performance goals, partnering with maintenance for TPM, managing AM and 5S, analyzing area performance, developing action plans, managing budgets, managing inventory, and overseeing team succession and polyvalence.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree is required - Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field is preferred.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in a continuous manufacturing environment is preferred.
Utilize Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and AutoCAD.
Utilize SAP for data entry and reporting.
Influence through personal power
Ability to interact and lead to achieve objectives
Strong listening and comprehension skills
Collaborate and foster teamwork.
Partners with people both within and outside the immediate work team to generate ideas, solve problems, and garner different perspectives
Builds cooperation and commitment to establish and achieve mutually determined plans and decisions
Communicates to ensure clarity around goals, objectives, and expectations
Celebrates team success
Project management skills
Change agent: comfortable with ‘what could be’ mindset, innovative and able to drive change by fostering teamwork and engaging others
Act on analysis: data driven, ability to integrate information into a conceptual whole and acts after conducting an insightful analysis and an in-depth evaluation of the pros/cons of alternatives
External perspective and understands that all business opportunities start with the knowledge of how to create value for the customer
Manage work: Organizes, plans and sets priorities based upon deadlines, timelines and what is considered most critical and beneficial for the company
Sets the best course of action and aggressively implements plans to achieve timely and efficient results
Promotes reliability and dependability by following-through and verifying the needs of others are satisfied

Nice To Haves

Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field is preferred.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in a continuous manufacturing environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

Adhere and promote all plant safety policies, procedures, and standards. Define, enable, and implement all and position-specific safety policies, procedures, and standards.
Manage safety risks in area of responsibility to define and implement complete and sustainable solutions.
Uses science and engineering principles to drive process understanding and identify where the biggest process improvement opportunities exist.
Provides expertise regarding the relationship between process parameters, operational performance, and product properties.
Develops and implements new ideas that provide step-change quality or productivity improvements for manufacturing.
Identifies and recommends opportunities for improved cost or product performance from a process perspective.
Uses statistical methods to validate improvements to process and product.
Uses standard and methodical problem-solving tools (RCA, 5-why, etc.) to analyze problems and define robust root causes and corrective actions.
Uses standard and methodical tools to track actions and activities to create transparency and accountability.
Partners with 3rd party suppliers or technical institutions to develop new processes.
Plans, schedules, conducts, and coordinates assigned engineering work on-schedule and in good quality.
Ensures effective communication and coordination on assigned work between all disciplines and stakeholders.
Applies sound technical engineering practices towards the completion of engineering projects and requests for engineering services to accomplish Plant & Corporate objectives within the established policies and procedures.
Manage capital projects to include justification, job scope definition, bidding, budgeting, scheduling, implementation, risk management, follow-up (spare parts, PMs, training, etc).
Communicate effectively in multiple formats to team members with various backgrounds.
Develops, updates, and delivers effective training materials and work instructions while also gauging compliance to ensure understanding and proper application.
Strong contribution and participation in TPM systems (5S, AM, PM, FI, etc.).
Document process and ensure team is trained, competent and delivering on objectives.
Ensure customer satisfaction in terms of safety, delivery, and quality.
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.
Lead and manage direct reports in all aspects to ensure team member’s effective performance in their role and their development.
Establish goals for team members and meet periodically to provide documented feedback on performance.
Partnering with maintenance to develop and implement total productive maintenance plans for equipment to ensure employee understanding and ownership.
Manage AM and 5S in area(s) of ownership.
Analyze performance of area and develop action plans to continuously improve.
Manage budget for area (labor, materials, spare parts, etc.).
Manage inventory level(s) and anticipate problems related to weekends, holidays, staffing, material supply issues, etc.
Manage succession and polyvalence of team.