Engineering Specialist
Owens Corning · Fairburn, GA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at Owens Corning (industrial) in Fairburn, GA. Implement a personal safety action plan and review with leader.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- TPM, Control plans, DOE
- Day to day
- about 10% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Georgia: typical posted base $89k–$158k.
Median of the low and high ends of 19 live postings that list pay, out of 48 manufacturing engineer openings in Georgia, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Georgia plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 47 other live manufacturing postings in Georgia.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Typical $89k–$158k, from 19 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 44%
- Automation 38%
- Root cause 33%
- Lean 33%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 27%
- Robotics 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, DOE, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- The posting says about 10% travel. Between which sites?
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This plant: Owens Corning in Fairburn
2 other open roles at this site.
- Sr Engineering Specialist - Batch, Binder and Furnace · Manufacturing · Senior
- Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
Full description from Owens CorningAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
at the lowest cost. The Manufacturing Engineer is accountable to continuously improve the glass making process to eliminate waste, improve safety, reduce cost, increase capacity and productivity, and improve the product.
Reports to : Plant Technical Leader
JOB
Responsibilities
Live the OC Safety and Sustainability stands, adhere to the safety
The Manufacturing Engineer will have responsibility for
- ◆Ensuring a safe, clean and environmentally compliant work environment and building a culture where safety is a first priority
- ◆Ensuring that all control plans, work instructions, reaction procedures and other procedures related to the technical operation of the Forehearths, production lines and all packaging areas ensure the safety of employees
- ◆Developing risk assessments for critical tasks
The Manufacturing Engineer will have responsibility for
- ◆Identifying, understanding, and teaching others the Critical Product Characteristics required to provide our customers with a quality product, including packaging.
- ◆Developing and implementing procedures and systems to ensure products consistently meet or exceed customer expectations
- ◆Supporting experiments or trials for new and existing products and packaging to ensure they meet our customer’s fitness for use
The Manufacturing Engineer will have responsibility for
- ◆Conducting process audits to review Critical Product Characteristics and Critical Process Variables and implementing sustainable corrective actions for process shifts or upsets
- ◆Determining process consistency and capability (Cpk)
- ◆Implementing control charting schemes for Critical Process Variables based on ISBMS and S&T specifications
- ◆Developing and implementing Operator Control Plans to ensure that all products meet specifications at the lowest cost
- ◆Identifying and eliminating common causes of product, packaging, and process variation (troubleshooting)
- ◆Analyzing product and process data, providing feedback and making recommendations to optimize performance
- ◆Identifying and implementing process improvements and best practices. Improvements may originate from S&T, ISBMS, or other facilities
- ◆Implementing corrective actions for issues surfaced through quality complaints, hold tags, and process deviations.
- ◆Coaching, counseling, and training all employees on process control
- ◆Establishing processes for all critical tasks and audit for adherence and compliance
- ◆Partner with maintenance and operations to resolve equipment issues
- ◆Develop reaction procedures for the elimination or minimizing process deviations
- ◆Identifying and requesting capital funding for equipment, modifications, etc.
The Manufacturing Engineer will have responsibility for
- ◆Educating primary employees in the manufacturing process and process control procedures
- ◆Partnering with employees salaried and hourly to develop and implement Operator Control Plans
- ◆Partnering with Maintenance and operation staff to develop and implement Operator Based Care plans for equipment to ensure employee understanding and ownership using the principles of TPM
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelors degree in Engineering
Experience
- ✓Minimum of 2 years experience in a manufacturing or technical environment
- ✓Completion of an engineering related Development Program or similar experience preferred
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Purpose of the job
Consistent with our Leadership Accountabilities, the Manufacturing Engineer is accountable to establish and maintain process recipes for operating lines in order to safely produce products that consistently meet codes, specifications, and customer
Metrics
- •Implement a personal safety action plan and review with leader
- •Safety metrics – RIR, first aids, near misses, SAFE and Critical 6
- •Leader Safety Standard Work and Hazard ID
Knowing Our Customers
Metrics
- •Customer FFU
- •Schedule Attainment
- •Quality Assurance
- •Piece Job Efficiency
- •Spinner Efficiency
- •Conversion Efficiency
- •Any measurable that may be assigned once accepting the role
Process Performance
Metrics
- •Operational Efficiencies – CE, OI, Mix Adjusted Pack Rate
- •Critical Product Characteristics and Critical Process Variables
- •Cost Metrics
- •Audit for Environmental Compliance
Leading and Developing Talent
Metrics
- •Individual Goals and Objectives
- •Presence of Operator Control Plans
- •Development of Reaction Procedures
- •Employee Training Plans
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Knowledge, skills & abilities
- •Understands customer needs, product specifications, basic cost drivers and the Critical Process Variables (CPVs) that impact these elements
- •Understands and works with basic principles of engineering
- •Understands statistical concepts including trial design, data analysis, control charts, process capability and design of experiments to drive process improvements
- •Maintain the ability to understand how to produce fiberglass including raw materials, processes and control systems
- •Ability to communicate with and engage employees at all levels of the organization
- •Ability to manage multiple priorities or projects at one time
- •Ability to learn the principals of the basics of TPM
- •Highly ethical: Can be trusted to do only the “right thing” for the employees, shareholders and others. Follows a balanced approach without compromising integrity.
- •Results-oriented: Energetic, resourceful, with a strong service orientation and positive can-do attitude. Fully committed to the job and to deliver outstanding work. Never satisfied with the status quo, continually striving for excellence.
- •Change agent: Capable of creating a vision of improved performance and engaging others to achieve goals. Able to anticipate risks a