Process Excellence Manager

April 3

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GAF is North America's largest roofing manufacturer, known for producing high-quality and innovative roofing materials. The company offers a wide range of roofing solutions including asphalt shingles, solar roofing, TPO roofing systems, and low-slope asphalt solutions. GAF is committed to sustainability and provides various resources to support homeowners, contractors, architects, and building managers in designing and maintaining durable, attractive roofs. With a focus on durability, energy efficiency, and aesthetic appeal, GAF's products like the Timberline HDZ shingles have become highly popular. The company also offers contractor certification programs and warranties to ensure the best service and product performance.

Building Materials Manufacturer • Roofing

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1886

📋 Description

• The Process Excellence Manager is responsible for driving multi plant process excellence across residential and asphaltic roll roofing facilities. • This role provides technical process support across multiple plants and product lines to drive OEE and MUV year over year improvements. • The Process Manager works closely with Operations leadership, Plant personnel, R&D, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain. • Work within the Communities of Practice (CoP) to establish Best Practices development and sharing. • Drive adoption at the plants, celebrate successes, and build the GBS library for recommended practices. • Strengthen the Communities of Practice and utilize talent across the network to lead troubleshooting efforts, sharing of knowledge, and communication between plants to improve performance. • Partner with plants to identify savings opportunities by benchmarking with other plants and utilizing the network for improvement. • Establish relationships with external process and equipment experts to identify standard instrumentation and equipment, and recommended maintenance standards for the plant systems. • Collaborate with Corporate teams and Plants to execute new technology solutions. • Establish process and troubleshooting benchmarks based on interplant experiences so that the network will gain OEE improvements. • Work with plants to identify continuous improvement opportunities to increase OEE and/or reduce costs; drive to completion. • Drive raw material trial coordination between the plants and supply chain to qualify backup supplies or cost savings. • Support safety and HAZOP initiatives and identify opportunities during plant visits. • Provide expertise and utilize the CoP to address plant quality issues or large claims. • Drive adoption of process improvement tools (SPC, Process Building Blocks, Braincube, Fishbone Diagrams, KT, MVT, data analysis, etc.). • Coach and mentor technical and process teams to establish bench strength within the network. • Perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree • Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering Required • 6+ years of demonstrated experience in a manufacturing environment. • Advanced demonstrated communications skills; written, verbal, and listening skills • Advanced analytical skills • Advanced organizational skills and attention to detail – able to plan, execute, and control multiple tasks simultaneously • Advanced problem solving skills • Advanced communication skills across multiple levels of the organization both with technical as well as managerial teams. • Advanced Leadership skills in developing new techniques and processes for data analysis • Demonstrated hands-on experience • Strong ability to influence and drive cross-functional and cross-plant decisions and initiatives • Ability to read and interpret specifications and drawings • Advanced proficiency using root cause analysis to troubleshoot and solve problems • Advanced ability to translate technical data into a format/language suitable for personnel • Advanced knowledge of manufacturing analysis tools, such as statistical analysis/statistical process control (SPC), process capability studies, lean manufacturing, Kepner Tregoe, and/or Design of Experiments (DOE) • Proficient in Microsoft Office and/or G-Suite

🏖️ Benefits

• We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. • Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood. • Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions. • Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence. • Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program. • We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.