Coater Supervisor

Your Job

Guardian Glass is seeking you to become our next Coater Supervisor at our Float Glass Facility in DeWitt, Iowa.

As our Coater Supervisor, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a talented team within our coating operation while helping create an environment where employees can work safely, develop their capabilities, and produce high-quality glass for our customers. You’ll use your leadership skills to help the team solve problems, improve performance, and create meaningful value. If you enjoy tackling new challenges in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where your contributions truly matter, Guardian Glass is where you belong!

Our Team

You’ll join the DeWitt production leadership team and work closely with employees across the coating operation and other departments. Our supervisors collaborate to align daily priorities, solve problems, and support safe, reliable production. We value open and honest communication, constructive challenge, and leaders who help employees understand how their work creates value.

What You Will Do

• Lead and support 7-8 employees within the coater department to achieve safe, reliable production
• Promote our self-driven safety culture and reinforce safe work practices
• Coordinate labor, daily priorities, projects, and production activities across your area
• Communicate expectations, follow through on commitments, and help the team achieve production goals
• Partner with production, maintenance, quality, planning, contractors, and other cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues
• Support the consistent production of quality products that meet customer expectations
• Monitor production systems, enter accurate data, correct errors, and control key screens
• Identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, reliability, and overall operating performance

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Supervisory experience in a manufacturing or industrial enviornment
• Ability to work rotating shifts (12-hour shifts, 6:00-6:00, “DuPont” schedule)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with Continuous Improvement Events/Activities

Our Location

Imagine finishing your workday without a long commute, knowing your neighbors, and enjoying the affordability and charm of a small community, while still having easy access to everything a larger city can offer.

DeWitt provides a safe, welcoming environment with excellent schools, local events, outdoor recreation, and a strong sense of community. When you're ready for a night out, the Quad Cities are just a short drive away, offering great restaurants, shopping, entertainment, and riverfront activities. Chicago and Iowa City are also within reach for college and pro sports, concerts, and weekend adventures.

It's a place where you can build a rewarding career without sacrificing quality of life.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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