Owens Corning · 9 hours ago
Sr Engineering Specialist
Jackson, TN, US, 38301
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expOwens Corning is a leading company in the manufacturing sector, and they are seeking a Sr. Engineering Specialist to coordinate customer specifications with the production team. This role involves implementing technical improvements, resolving issues, and ensuring product quality and customer satisfaction.
Building MaterialConstructionManufacturing
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science degree is required - Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field is preferred
Minimum of 5 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
Ability to interact and lead to achieve objectives
Strong listening and comprehension skills
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
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
Company
Owens Corning
Owens Corning maintains an unconditional commitment to safety. In its quest for an injury-free workplace.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2006-11-01IPO
Leadership Team
Brian Chambers
Chief Executive Officer
Todd Fister
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-05
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