Asphalt Plant Leader

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Asphalt Plant Leader is responsible for ensuring alignment with and achievement of the Company's strategic areas of focus, division and plant goals. This position is accountable for making decisions that affect employee health & safety, employee relations, facility profitability, quality of products and customer satisfaction, employee growth & development, and local/regional community relationships.

Reports to: Director, Asphalt Operations

Span of Control: Position is responsible for leading 3 salaried and 16 hourly employees.

Job Responsibilities

Aligns with the Roofing and Asphalt business goals.

• Develops and achieves these goals at the plant level.
• Success will be measured by the Plant Leader’s ability to achieve operational excellence in safety, customer service, quality, cost control, diversity, engagement, and regulatory compliance.
  
  

Accountable for employee safety.

• Holds others accountable for working safely.
• Provides appropriate resources to ensure the incident-free operation of the plant.
• Ensures the plant is always in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identifies hazards, including housekeeping issues, and resolves them.
• Ensures the safe manufacture of product that is delivered to the customer on-time, and at specifications.
  
  

Demonstrate the commitment to build an exceptional workplace environment; fostering open communication, employee engagement, and diversity.

• Actively manages the continued training, development and growth of all personnel.
• Institutes a culture of data driven decision making, TPM-driven processes and 5S
• Sets clear expectations of performance and establishes, communicates and regularly reviews commitments to make certain milestones are achieved as planned.
• Communicates well with: customers, other Plant Leaders in the network, supply chain/sourcing teams, commercial teams, and company leadership.
• Act as the voice of the Asphalt Plant to both the customers and the company.
  
  

Job Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred (Majors - Engineering or Business are preferred)
• Experience leading manufacturing operations, or maintenance operations, in a petro-chemical or Roofing/Asphalt manufacturing environment is required.
• Previous experience directly managing people is required
  
  

Experience

• Petro, chemical, or other process operations leadership role, 3-5 years.
• Environmental, Health & Safety leadership experience
• Maintenance/reliability and small project leadership experience
• Proven TPM leadership
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• SAP knowledge – production, inventory, and PM
• Budget setting and cost control
• Leads through Safer Together corporate vision
• Ability to build strong team alignment and communication
• Ability to coach and guide for results
• Possesses strong change management skills
• Ability to travel, as required (5-10%)
  
  

About Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com.

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.