Owens Corning
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Operations Leader
- Location
- Fairburn, GA, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The Operations Leader has responsibility for all areas of production at a manufacturing facility. The person in this position helps to implement organizational strategies, standards and practices to achieve best-in-class performance in the following areas:
- Safety – Our employees live injury-free lives
- Talent –Our employees own the success of the business
- Quality – We produce zero defects or failures to customer requirements
- Environmental – We operate with zero non-conformities and zero waste streams
- Cost – We are the competitive cost leader
Reports to : The position reports directly to the Plant Leader and is an integral partner in executing the operations strategy for the plant. The Operations Leader is a member of the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) consisting of leadership from the Maintenance, EHS, Finance, Warehouse and Human Resources departments.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead safety and security for an injury free work environment
- Provide a safe and secure work environment for all employees, contractors and visitors
- Allocates resource requirements and investments required to achieve zero injuries, including systems, focused programs and leadership
- Ensures a clear and effective measurement system is followed and used to drive results; rewards and celebrates safe behavior and achievements; ensures accountability
Metrics
- Recordable Incident Rate (RIR)
- Near-miss reporting
- SAFE Score (Management and Critical Six Modules)
- Total Incident Rate
Manage Operations
- Identify and drives continuous improvement efforts through standardized work to cut cost and improve productivity and quality
- Set clear and measurable performance expectations, in line with plant goals; proactively analyzes and manages all relative operations performance metrics
- Effectively communicate goals and objectives
- Assign and coordinate the work in a manufacturing department to include supervising first line leaders, production leaders
- Prepares budgets relative to capital expenditures, manpower, production, and space forecasting necessary to meet customer demands
- Operate with zero environmental non-conformities to applicable company , government and regulatory policies
- Develop and manage the quality and product measurement systems to provide a consistent quality product
- Build an environment that develops and improves serving our customers
- Partner with sales and customer facing groups as necessary to maintain positive business relationships
- Serving as the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Pillar Leader for the Fairburn Plant to realize the vision of being a best in class example of AM and to establish a culture where employees drive to achieve zero accidents, zero loss and zero defects.
- Leading a lean culture environment through six sigma processes and toolsets
- Assigning and coordinating the work in a manufacturing department to include supervising first line leaders, production leaders, and analyze productivity reports
- Preparing budgets relative to capital expenditures, manpower, production, and space forecasting
- Facilitating process improvements through people deployment, productivity enhancements, high performance work teams and being a model for change
- Developing and leading strategic business plans; accountable for delivering plant performance metrics
- Utilizing data driven decision-making processes, such as Six Sigma
- Driving alignment between plant departments
Metrics
- Performance against operating plan
- Conversion Efficiency / Operating Efficiency
- Cost per unit
- Environmental compliance / non-conformities
- Defects – goal of zero defects or failures to customer requirements
Develop a positive employee relations environment
- Ensures a positive, creative, diverse and collaborative work environment where employees own the success of the business
- Establish an engaged workforce characterized by mutual trust, open communications, teamwork, and recognition
- Monitors labor activities and leverages labor relations resources as appropriate to ensure
From Owens Corning's careers page (Company careers page), checked 30 Oct 2026.
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Posted 9 Oct 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026 · Report this job