Furnance Engineer

Position: Furnace Engineer

Location: Clarksville, TN.

Type: Fulltime, Direct Hire, Onsite

Summary:

The company produces fiberglass wet chop that is used in the production of various roofing products, including composite shingles for homes.

Furnace Engineer Functions:

• Responsible for all aspects of the assigned manufacturing processes, including batch and furnace, 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.).
• Leads and manages furnace cold repair and rebuild efforts at appropriate intervals.
• Orders and inventories of 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.
• Monitors the condition of all equipment in the batch, furnace, and forehearth area and initiates 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 forehearths.
• 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.

Beneficial Experience and Skills:

• Working knowledge of SPC and Six Sigma methodology.
• Working knowledge of Wonderware, Noltec, North American, and Eclipse systems.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Office products

Education Requirements

• A bachelors degree in ceramic, mechanical, or chemical engineering is preferred along with ten-years minimum furnace and manufacturing experience.