Melting Tank Supervisor

Why join us? At Corelle Brands (i.e., Anchor Hocking) we are passionate about products that bring joy and ease to our customers in cooking and sharing food with family and friends. Corelle Brands is home to category-leading brands, including Corelle, Corningware, Anchor Hocking, Chicago Cutlery, Fire-King, Lucaris and Ocean. We are looking for candidates who are smart, curious, creative, push the limits of what is possible and are passionate about our brands. We embrace and respect diverse backgrounds, and welcome new ideas.

Our continuous focus on growth and innovation means you will become part of a global company that offers challenging opportunities, rewards excellence, and combines your individual expertise to achieve a higher level of shared success. We operate within a fast-paced, team-oriented, rewarding work environment that allows our employees to develop and thrive.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits within a flexible, creative, and progressive work setting. Join Corelle Brands and become a part of our story. Everyone matters here.

Position Summary:

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Supervise the operation of designated melting furnaces and associated equipment. To provide technical leadership to the Melting Department to improve process yields, reduce nonconformities, and reduce product cost. This is accomplished through data analysis, experimental plans, process capability studies, and variability reduction. Provide leadership and management of assigned functional responsibility such as Glass Composition, Precious Metals and Melting Critical Spares.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor daily operations ensuring process stability and shift-to-shift operational consistency. Characterize and optimize daily operations.
• Correlate glass quality and operational problems with process variables.
• Provide training, coaching, and assessing in accordance with ISO standards for furnace/forehearth operators and other Melting personnel.

• Ensure compliance with all safety and housekeeping guidelines.
• Inspect process equipment and ensure problems are identified and addressed in a timely matter.
• Work closely with the Forming department as required to ensure maximum percentage select.
• Maintain and enforce the SOS system for the assigned unit.
• Support tank repairs and start-ups.

• Cross train between melting units to provide vacation, weekend, and off-shift coverage.
• Determine and institute job change set-ups coordinating with Forming to minimize downtime and cullet at start-up.
• Track downtime, cullet, quality, tank efficiency, and refractory wear rate ensuring objectives for each area are met.
• Ensure compliance with ISO standards for assigned area.