Key skills
SAPProject Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Provide furnace audits and campaign life assessments with required reporting defining necessary actions, maintenance requirements, and risk identification for assigned furnaces
- Provide technical support and project management for projects including scoping, estimation, design, construction and commissioning
- Provide operating and maintenance support for the applicable systems to the facilities
- Responsible for complex and significant projects using considerable engineering expertise in furnace and refractory design and hot repair techniques to complete projects with minimal technical oversight
- Responsible for the evaluation of furnace condition according to O-I Global Manufacturing fundamentals and O-I Global furnace team standards
- Responsible for scoping, supervision and follow-up of design and repair project development through execution
- Responsible for realizing the appropriate maintenance actions for assigned furnaces to ensure asset stability & reliability on time, and on budget
- Expected to provide input into decisions with potentially significant financial impacts to the business
- Follow-up with necessary hot repair documentation, solutions to issues, and supervision of repairs
- Exceptional maintenance budget definition and execution for assigned furnaces
- Scoping, estimating, design, selection, inspection, and construction supervision of furnace refractories with minimal oversight
- Supervision of internal and external engineering staff for the aforementioned areas
- Develop detailed and clear scopes of work for engineering projects eliminating all ambiguity
- Guide engineers during the production of drawings
- Review drawings and Bills of Materials for accuracy and completeness
- Mentor engineers and designers in design and audit practices and techniques
- Collaborate with Mechanical, Structural, Electrical and Process Control engineering as required
- Perform remote and field plant technical assistance activities, identifying improvement opportunities and implementing action plans
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Ceramic Engineering preferred
- Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent knowledge will be considered
- 5+ years of experience in glass furnace and refractory design, construction, audits and hot repairs
- Working knowledge of refractory expansion & interface with binding steel
- Working knowledge of refractory selections and suppliers in design and hot repair
- Working knowledge of industrial manufacturing systems, buildings, infrastructure, and process related systems
- Strong knowledge and awareness of safety and PPE requirements before, during and after projects
- Ability to work within multinational environments
- MS Office knowledge
- AutoCAD knowledge
- SAP Knowledge
- English skills: Oral – Advanced, Written/Reading – Advanced
Benefits
- 10 paid holidays each year
- Health, Dental, Prescription and Vision care coverage
- Perform Well-Being Program – earn employer contributions in your HSA or HRA plan
- Wellness Incentive – earn additional funds for your HSA or HRA plan
- Group Life Insurance
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Voluntary Employee and Dependent Life Insurance
- Weekly Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Saving Plans
- Employee Assistance Program