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OWENS CORNING CORPORATE SERVICES LLC Digital Manufacturing Transformation Lead - Operations Innovation in Newark, Ohio
Digital Manufacturing Transformation Lead - Operations Innovation Location(s): Granville, OH, US, 43023-1200 Toledo, OH, US, 43659-0001 Function: Research and Development Audience: Experienced Professional Work Arrangement: Hybrid Requisition ID: 67840 PURPOSE OF THE JOB 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. Reports to: Corporate Engineering Leader - Digital Span of Control: Individual contributor JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Knowing Our Businesses and their Strategies 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 to support and enhance business results; be knowledgeable of the project work that supports this direction and implications for the business. Understands the relationships with stakeholders and understands what it takes to ensure their success. Knows what best-in-class organizations do and obtain outside-in insights to understand and then apply to positively impact Owens Corning. Build transparent partnerships across the Global Information Services (GIS) organization, our businesses, Center of Excellence (CoE), Science and Technology (S&T) and operations; keep status, priorities, and outcomes visible. Work closely to recognize analogous workstreams elsewhere in the organization. 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. Executing Strategy Discover & Frame Unmet Needs 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. Inform strategy to execute PoC or pilots that are prioritized in the Digital Manufacturing Transformation portfolio. Design Work Process and Roadmap Define end-to-end innovation work processes-from discovery and PoC through pilot execution-aligned to Business, Capital Delivery, S&T and GIS standards. Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and teams to collect requirements, define well-formed acceptance criteria, and develop the corresponding manufacturing technology solutions roadmap. Pilot and Prove Value 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. Engage with business, Capital Delivery, and Global Information Servic