Process Champion, InsulationSaint-Gobain

Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, fence, decking, railing, trim, insulation, drywall and ceilings.
A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,300 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. www.certainteed.com

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while making the world a more beautiful and sustainable home.

What's the Job?

Utilizing World Class Manufacturing (WCM) principles, the Process Champion supports the execution of the process improvement strategy for the Insulation Sites by ensuring assimilation and integration of known process knowledge, engineering principles and best practice equipment enabling capable operations. Key areas include: product formulation, process development and optimization, equipment design and optimization, general project engineering, and trial planning and execution.

This role is also the primary trainer for plant process engineers building process expertise at the sites.

This position is based at the Kansas City, KS plant and is a 50% travel role supporting other CertainTeed insulation plants.

Essential Duties

Safety & Environment

• Continuously evaluates workplace for safety concerns and ensures behavioral safety initiatives are performed to goal levels.
• Complies with all environmental standards, assures good housekeeping practices following 5S systems, enforces plant rules and safety regulations, and supports WCM initiatives.

General

• Participates in different project teams which analyze process variations; develop solutions and implements corrective actions by using advanced statistical tools in identifying and resolving the root causes of the variations in the process.
• Responsibilities include designing / developing new process systems, revising existing processes, and developing and coordinating the implementation of projects, which contribute substantially to plant profitability.
• Responsible for safely and successfully executing projects, documenting, and with assistance from supervisor communicating progress and results through reports, presentations etc.
• Develops and encourage innovative processes and equipment concepts along with follow through to Return on Investments' (ROI) patents and / or proprietary intellectual property.
• Closely partners with R&D and Engineering groups to ensure new process knowledge and equipment

Process Integration

• Assists plants in execution of key projects as identified on the plant process route map.
• Provides overall process leadership for sites by being technical experts in one or more areas of Insulation manufacturing by:
  • Ensuring process gaps to established best practice standards are identified at each site.
  • Recommending and aiding the plant in correcting process gaps and issues.
  • Working with site to establish clear process parameters leading to a more stable/capable manufacturing operation.
  • Providing process and quality-based engineering and maintenance advice to plant operating personnel
  • Providing trouble shooting expertise for process and equipment issues
• Performing equipment studies to verify proper and efficient operation of major process equipment
• Assists plants in ensuring process knowledge, operational settings and equipment quality maintenance is sustained via use of Step 0 and other WCM foundational systems.

Training & Education

• Principal trainer for engineers and local trainers.
• Support Training of operators and maintenance personnel as needed.

I4.0

• Works with the Advanced Manufacturing team to leverage data in all facets of Insulation Manufacturing.

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Ceramic or Material Science Engineering or equivalent experience in similar industries is required
• 5-7 years' experience in insulation manufacturing in one or more of the following areas:
• • Batch
  • Furnace and forehearth
  • Binder
  • Fiberizing
• Minitab experience preferred
• Understanding of mass & energy balance, flow diagrams, Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), fluid properties and thermodynamics preferred
• Excellent problem solving capabilities and the ability to work independently on assigned tasks
• Flexible and open-minded with good written and oral communication.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to travel (up to 50%)

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