Process Facility Specialist

Company Description

About O-I

Remember the last time you opened a bottle of champagne, a cold beer after a hard day’s work or a bottle of sparkling mineral water to quench your thirst? Well, it was probably made by us, we are O-I Glass and we love that we make more glass containers than anyone in the world. O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

With 25,000 + employees and an unparalleled footprint spanning 72 plants in 20 countries, O-I is a truly global maker of glass packaging. From engineering and manufacturing to brand development, design and innovation, we are dedicated to providing unique solutions to exceed our customers’ expectations and fuel consumers’ desire for glass.

Job Description

About the role:

As a Process Facility Specialist for O-I’s Innovation Center, you will focus on working safe, protecting and maintaining the assets, and working with urgency and workmanship.

This position will serve as a part of a team of process facility specialists, operators and subject matter experts that run the facility which focuses on technical innovation.  The Innovation Center is a 1/10th scale glass plant with all the accompanying operations.  Candidates will be expected to safely support both the assets, themselves and the research trials conducted within the facility.  A non-negotiable safety mindset is the most important quality to have followed by a positive attitude and desire to learn.  Within reason the role can be adapted to fit the individual strengths and development desires of the candidate.  Will be exposed to furnace technologies, forming technologies, water handling systems, thermal management, mechanical fabrication and electronics based on training and experience.  Ability to ask good questions, observe unexpected outcomes in trials and provide feedback to R&D, Operations and Innovation teams is extremely valuable.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Follow process safety policies and protocols.
• Assist with GMP housekeeping duties.
• Keep operations running safely, including preventative maintenance.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures for the facility and equipment use.
• Conducting furnace and forming trials
• Lead systems and bench testing to support projects.
• Follow quality procedures in glass manufacturing to ensure acceptable quality for R&D and global innovation teams.
• Troubleshoot, update, modify, repair, maintain and setup machines and systems.
• Provide direct input to the R&D teams regarding the performance and/or design of prototype equipment in the process lab.
• Ensure excellent communication within team and between shifts, management and project teams.

Scope & Impact:

• This position will have no direct financial responsibilities.
• This position has the ability to make independent decisions relative to daily operations. Decisions that have a direct impact on project results must be approved by the project technical leader or team leader.

Qualifications

About you:

• You’re a good communicator with strong ability to be proactive and show initiative
• Love glass and care about sustainability and the planet
• Good team player
• Drive to learn new skills
• Able to work with a wide variety of technical personnel and projects
• You have ability to understand trends and readouts from control screens
• Ability to suggest modifications to obtain improved results
• High school or GED diploma
• 1-2 years in a field or production environment

Travel or Schedule Requirements:

Domestic travel: Up to 10%

Schedule: Position may follow a flexible shift schedule

Reporting Relationships:

This position reports to the Shift Leader.

Additional Information

What we offer:

Salary Range:  The expected salary range for this position is between $47,000 and  $58,800 USD.  Actual pay will be adjusted based upon candidate experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

O-I offers a very generous benefit package – some of the highlights are:

• Vacation time and paid holidays
• Health, dental, prescription and vision care coverage
• Generous insurance discounts with participation in Company wellness program
• Wellness incentive where you can earn money for your HSA or HRA
• Group