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Digital Manufacturing Transformation Lead - Operations Innovation

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Owens Corning

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United States , Granville

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The Digital Manufacturing Transformation (DMT) – Operations Innovation role is responsible for driving the adoption of advanced digital tools and methodologies across Owens Corning’s manufacturing operations. This position partners with plant teams and business leaders to identify unmet operational needs, validate innovative solutions, and enhance organizational capability through technology-driven improvements. This role will also lead proof-of-concept (PoC) work and execute related pilot implementation to demonstrate proof of value (PoV) in manufacturing operations and once validated, scale innovations across plants while ensuring secure, reliable operations and measurable business outcomes.

Job Responsibility:

  • Collaborate with plant teams and business leaders to understand and address unmet manufacturing operations needs across the enterprise
  • Understand the strategic direction of the company’s businesses and execute functional strategies
  • Build transparent partnerships across the Global Information Services (GIS) organization, our businesses, Center of Excellence (CoE), Science and Technology (S&T) and operations
  • Leverage business partnerships to prioritize workstreams related to PoCs or pilots within the Digital Manufacturing Transformation portfolio
  • Create capacity and increase capability of manufacturing teams by identifying and validating digital tools and services that address operational gaps
  • Plan and lead Proof of Concept (POC), Proof of Value (POV), and Pilot projects to validate new digital tools and services
  • Build business cases for proposed solutions that quantify expected financial value and define success metrics
  • Define end-to-end innovation work processes—from discovery and PoC through pilot execution
  • Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and teams to collect requirements, define well-formed acceptance criteria, and develop the corresponding manufacturing technology solutions roadmap
  • Manage expectations across impacted organizations to plan and execute PoCs or pilots, to validate assumptions, prove value in live manufacturing environments
  • document outcomes, risks, and learnings
  • Oversee respective budgets, risks, resource utilization, and stakeholder communications, and regular status reporting with success metrics
  • Define and execute the enterprise rationalization phases of new solutions before deployed at scale
  • Drive the integration with manufacturing controls and OT systems platform (e.g., SCADA, automated backup/restore): lifecycle management, standards, and governance to keep systems relevant and secure
  • As needed, partners with relevant OC functions (i.e. Legal, IT Security, Sourcing) to adhere to their respective global requirements through the PoC and pilot implementation
  • Evaluate new functionality with structured pilots
  • standardize and expand innovations that deliver measurable value
  • Provide input with the project portfolio and participate in the sequencing and scheduling of significant innovation work to best fit resource capabilities
  • Establish a sustainable support model leveraging internal teams and partners
  • act as escalation point for critical issues related to the PoC or pilot execution
  • Engage cross-functional team on thorough change management to minimize plant risk and achieve comprehensive visibility of changes
  • enforce access control and data security related to PoC or pilot execution
  • Maximize PoC or pilot value from partners via achievement of clear deliverables, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • drive continuous improvement with new product and implementation providers
  • Align with architecture and security governance
  • adhere to standards and approvals for solutions deployed in manufacturing environments
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the department and cross-functionally
  • encourage others to identify areas of waste (process, time, etc.)
  • ideate and execute action plans to create productivity
  • Summarized complex information so that it is easy to interpret and understand
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness, value, and perception of the organization
  • Provide impactful peer-to-peer leadership to others on the team, contributing to their development
  • Assist in building the talent pipeline, mentoring, and developing other team members
  • Invest in personal growth and development, clearly focused on self-learning
  • Create an inclusive environment where the team looks at you as a highly regarded leader and mentor the team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant field
  • 5+ years in manufacturing with hands-on operational experience in production, maintenance, and/or process control
  • 3+ years of leading process improvements and change management
  • Strong understanding and practical experience with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical options and measurable value
  • Proven success leading medium-to-large, cross-functional/global initiatives with third-party vendors and partners
  • Strong stakeholder management, and organizational skills
  • adept at prioritizing in fast-paced environments
  • Curiosity, service mindset, and inventive flexibility
  • self-directed learner matching emerging technologies to operational needs
  • Strong problem-solving and planning skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving environment
  • Experience collaborating in a diverse cultural environment and across international boundaries
  • Ability to lead and partner effectively with team members, business partners, and 3rd party partners
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Service Mindset
  • The ability to build trust, connections, and influence stakeholders
  • Ability to travel up to ~20-30%, including internationally

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Job Posted:
March 01, 2026

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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