General Description:
A furnace engineer is responsible for achieving and maintaining optimum process performance in the
areas of furnace, batch, sizing and fiber forming operation while producing quality fiber glass within
customer specifications. The primary focus of the furnace engineer is toward increasing efficiencies in all
areas of the process including raw material usage, energy consumption, process control, furnace condition
and final total percent pack efficiencies. Furnace engineer is responsible for the safe and efficient
operation of the furnace, batch and sizing systems while also heavily integrated with fiber forming to
ensure quality production at world class efficiencies.
Requirements
▪ Promote and maintain safety goals and ensure a safe work environment for all employees.
Leads safety and housekeeping efforts and corrective actions within assigned projects and areas.
Exemplifies safety in all actions and leads by example.
▪ Responsible for meeting established goals and objectives. Acts as a technical resource for the
organization.
▪ Utilizes SPC methods and six sigma methodology to eliminate special cause and reduces common
cause variation while striving for continuous improvement
▪ Ensures customer satisfaction through process control and standardization. Operates, control and
maintains furnace and forehearth to ensure safe, efficient and cost effective operation. Monitors
energy prices and usage and recommends most cost effective energy input. Monitors furnace and
forehearth condition and takes appropriate preventive actions to prevent furnace outage or leaks.
Knows response to power outage procedures, as well as glass leak procedures, etc.
▪ Writes and maintains job instructions, process setup sheets and process check sheets utilizing coach
and primary employee feedback.
▪ Initiate cost reduction ideas into the fiberglass melting and forming process to further the goal of being
the safest, high quality, low cost fiberglass producer. Conducts production trials with both product and
or process improvement studies that support continued improvement efforts.
▪ Directs multiple projects simultaneously and prioritizes completion of projects according to company
objectives. Documentation of projects and process changes are communicated and updated.
▪ Ensure process setups are documented, communicated and adhered to on a daily basis to meet
customer and company standards.
▪ Maximizes production efficiency. Identifies opportunities for productivity improvements and takes
appropriate action. Optimizes existing processes and products.
▪ Responsible for all aspects of the assigned manufacturing processes, including batch, furnace and
sizing, as well as safety, value (productivity) and quality.
▪ Maximizes furnace life through inspections, repairs, and maintenance as well as proper operational
control (temperature, pressure, etc.).
▪ Orders and inventories supplies needed to maintain furnace and forehearth area.
▪ Trains, develops and works with furnace techs to ensure stable and consistent furnace operations.
▪ Trials new raw materials and gathers data to support or disprove merit.
▪ Monitor the condition of all equipment in the batch, furnace and forehearth area and initiate necessary
repairs needed to meet performance and production goals.
▪ Ensure melting temperature profile is maintained in the furnace and forehearth as well as all other
important process parameters to ensure high glass quality and high fiber forming efficiencies.
▪ Maintain and troubleshoot system from batch truck and rail unloading, batch mixing, transporting and
charging through the furnace and forehearth.
▪ Maintain proper gas to oxygen ratios in the furnace and forehearth using thermox.
▪ Keeps and inputs all batch formulas. Verifies calibration on batch weighing system.
▪ Profiles and cleans gas/oxy burners and forehearth pencil burners.
▪ Operate, calibrate and maintain electric boost system.
▪ Opacity reading qualified
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