Electrical Controls Supervisor

Industry Leader | $200M Expansion | 80-Year Legacy

Owens Corning is investing in excess of $200 million to transform our Kansas City Fiberglass Insulation Plant—adding jobs, expanding capabilities, and shaping the future of manufacturing at a facility that has been a cornerstone of building products production for 80 years
. We’re looking for an Electrical Controls Engineer who thrives on challenges, inspires teams, and delivers results that matter.

Lead a team of union electricians and controls professionals to install and maintain the electrical and controls systems at the Owens Corning Kansas City manufacturing site. This position is responsible for driving strategy around electrical preventive maintenance, controls systems LCM, and training technicians. This role is responsible for working with corporate teams, and external vendors.

Reports to: Plant Maintenance Leader

Span of Control: Supports all technical, manufacturing, and quality processes at the Kansas City Plant.

Direct Reports: Supervision of unionized Electricians, Controls Technicians, Contract engineers. Supervise Vendors, and Mechanical repairmen when applicable.

• Live the OC Safety Stand and adhere to Employee Safety Responsibilities
• Build and foster an “incident-free” safety culture among all employees
• Utilize technical knowledge to provide a safe and secure work environment for all employees, contractors, and visitors
• Ensure all practices and procedures within their control are safe, environmentally compliant, and permit compliant
• Educate team members on safe operations, ARC Flash NFPA 70 standards, and lead team to work safely
• Perform reporting and investigation of all safety incidents, driving to root cause and permanent resolution. Lead notification and communication process to key parties, including but not limited to, plant leadership, Axiom (Tele Doc service) and other key involved parties
• Act as the Incident Commander in all emergency situations which includes the responsibility of executing on emergency response procedures
• Works with Safety and Environmental teams to maintain and validate control reliable safety systems in the manufacturing process.
• Partners with safety to ensure proper electrical PPE is issued, inspected, calibrated at required intervals.
• Provides leadership and project management to improve plant efficiency, equipment uptime, and line utilization at the Kansas City plant.
• Apply Root Cause Analysis techniques to resolve process issues, enhance equipment reliability, improve process capability, and ensure superior product quality.
• Develop and recommend action plans to reduce equipment failures related to electrical and control systems.
• Serve as the primary liaison with equipment suppliers to address and resolve electrical and controls-related concerns.
• Lead commissioning activities during plant startups, including preparation of all required documentation and validation procedures.
• Execute improvement projects using sound engineering principles, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards, and best practices.
• Technical knowledge in electrical power distribution, frequency drive systems, instrumentation systems, motors and motor control systems, electrical troubleshooting, data acquisition, etc.
• Works with teams to provide budget to Maintenance Leader for annual LCM work streams.
• Works with plant leadership teams to develop annual Capital Plans and Long Range Plans
• Technical Capability
• Controls Systems and Sensors, Motion Controls, Network Communications, Scada Systems, and Robotics maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Power systems infrastructure maintenance and troubleshooting, electrical Systems Knowledge, and compliance
• Rockwell Automation Software and Allen Bradley Hardware, Manufacturing Networking (Ethernet IP, Control Net, DH+), Fanuc Robots, Ignition SCADA systems, MES, 12KV Power Systems, 480
  
  VAC Power Systems, 120
  
  VAC Utility and Control Systems, 24
  
  Vdc Controls Systems, CMMS Systems, Chronos, Office Suite, and AutoCAD Electrical
• Coaches, trains, and provides support to maintenance repairmen, electricians, controls technicians, and production operators on the manufacturing…