Yet the timing couldn't have been better. The bicycle craze of the 1890s was booming. The horseless carriage, some ventured to call it the automobile, was a wide-open challenge. Even the depression of 1893 was beginning to fade. So on August 29, 1898, Goodyear was incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000.
David E. Hill, who purchased $30,000 of stock, became the first president. But it was the dynamic and visionary founder, hard-driving Seiberling, who chose the name and determined the distinctive trademark. The winged-foot trademark, inspired by a newel-post statuette of Mercury in the Seiberling home, has been altered over the years. Yet, it remains an integral part of the Goodyear signature, a symbolic link with the company’s historic past.
Something else about these legendary early years lingers on through Goodyear’s history. Something elusive and intangible, yet very real. Something about the people. People like Seiberling, actually trying to liquidate family-owned property in 1898 when he ended up taking that once-in-a-lifetime chance to buy -- at a bargain -- the seven-acre tract that became Goodyear. People like George M. Stadelman, a man who avoided crowds and never made a speech, yet had a gift of integrity and foresight that guided Goodyear’s sales through a critical 20 years. People like Paul W. Litchfield, whose conviction and leadership helped inspire Goodyear’s development for nearly six decades.
With just 13 employees, Goodyear production began on November 21, 1898, with a product line of bicycle and carriage tires, horseshoe pads and -- fitting the gamble Seiberling was making -- poker chips. The first recorded payroll amounted to $217.86 based on the prevailing wage of 13 to 25 cents an hour for a 10-hour day. After the first full month of business, sales amounted to $8,246. Since the first bicycle tire in 1898, Goodyear pedaled its way toward becoming the world’s largest tire company, a title it earned in 1916 when it adopted the slogan "More people ride on Goodyear tires than on any other kind," becoming the world’s largest rubber company in 1926.
Today, Goodyear measures sales of nearly $20 billion, although it took 53 years before the company reached the first billion-dollar-year milestone. And it all began in a converted strawboard factory on the banks of the Little Cuyahoga River in East Akron, Ohio. Spanning the years, through all of those yesterdays, a legion of firsts and facts and figures appears that reflect the making of a company.
Goodyear is one of the world's leading tire companies. Together with its U.S. and international subsidiaries and joint ventures, Goodyear manufactures and markets tires for most applications. It also manufactures and sells several lines of power transmission belts, hose and other rubber products for the transportation industry and various industrial and consumer markets, as well as rubber related chemicals for various applications. Goodyear is the world's largest operator of commercial truck service and tire retreading centers. In addition, it operates more than 1,800 tire and auto service center outlets.
Goodyear employs more than 75,000 associates worldwide and manufactures its products in more than 90 facilities in 28 countries.
Goodyear Indonesia is now looking for the talented people with a passionate, enterprising spirit to help us shape the future of our business in Indonesia, located in Bogor, West Java. These are people who enjoy responsibility, strive to achieve, open to change and have a collaborative style. The current opportunity is:
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If you have the above profile and wish to be part of our team, please send your maximum 2 pages of resume with current photograph to:
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Available Position
Compounder
Bogor (Jawa Barat),
Responsibilities:
- The incumbent is responsible to assure the material and process are within corporate specifications and improve an existing production process and develop recommendation for changes of working methods or operation sequences that will minimize risks, cost and wastage - Increase yield and productivity - and improve the quality and consistency of final product.
Requirements:
- Education and/or experience equivalent with Bachelor's Degree in chemical engineering field
- Professional experiences in manufacturing area, preferably in compounding role
- Excellent problem solving, attention to detail and statistic skills
- Technical knowledge of manufacturing processes includes the point of company's goals & business improvement systems
- Demonstrated strong analytical thinking
- Good in both oral and written in English
- High initiative, work under minimum supervision
- Computer literate (MS office is a must)
Logistics Manager
Bogor (Jawa Barat),
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with manufacturing, sales, customer satisfaction and supply chain to create timely, cost-effective import/export supply chains. Responsible for handling the technical details of international transportation - multiple modes, complex documentation, and varying customs regulations, developing distribution strategies, and building relationships with logistics intermediaries. Serves as a troubleshooter, dealing with problems inherent in moving freight long distances and holding inventory in Goodyear Indonesia warehouses.
Requirements:
- Education and/or experience equivalent to Bachelor's Degree in Business
- Minimum 5 years experience in logistics for Manufacturing industry
- Minimum 2 years experience in Managerial level
- Acknowledgement and experience in using SAP will be an advantage
- Experience with Six Sigma or other methodical process improvement methodology is preferred
- Strong leadership and communication skill
- Sharp analytical skill, positive outlook and enthusiastic
- Proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Excellent English both oral and written
Continuous Improvement System Specialist / Industrial Engineer
Bogor (Jawa Barat)
Responsibilities:
- Maintain working knowledge of all operations within assigned plant department
- To be better prepared to coordinate the study and implementation of proposed changes
- To help production and staff departments when problem arise.
- Providing for plant management such information, studies, and recommendations that are needed for improvement in the utilization of personnel and facilities to maximize quality output at lowest possible cost
- To control the required machine capacities, manning and cost are meet the annual operating plant
- This position also is committed to protecting the environment, health and safety of our associates, customers and the communities where we operate.
Requirements:
Bachelor Degree from Engineering discipline
Having more than 5 years solid experience in Industrial engineering / Continuous Improvement exposure
1. Man power optimization
2. Quick change over
3. Kaizen
4. 5S
5. Hands-on / floor experience
6. Understand process flow / VSM
7. Self-motivated person, high initiative and able to work under minimum supervision
8. Good communication and interpersonal skills, able to work
9. Individually as well as in a team
Retail Technical Trainer
Bogor (Jawa Barat)
Responsibilities:
- Work with sales team and tokos to develop and execute required training on technology applications and solutions that related to tire/automotive industry
- Design and executing technical training programs that meet Company and customer needs
Requirements:
- Bachelor degree from reputable University
- 3 to 5 years experience in training technology and/or service
- Training certifications desired
- Proven track record in improving customer retention
- Excellent in both interpersonal & communication skills
- Willing to traveling and relocate (if needed)
- Well organized, should be self motivated person with high initiative
- Good presentation skills & willing to work under minimum supervision
- Computer literate
Process Specialist
Bogor (Jawa Barat)
Responsibilities:
- To facilitate the operational efficiencies of the manufacturing facility by application of world class business practices, leading through example to establish a culture of continuous improvement in a safe working environment.
Requirements:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering (or relevant experiences)
- Experience minimum 2 years as Production Supervisor (preferably on Manufacturing or Heavy Equipment Industry)
- Self motivated, receives satisfaction from finishing work and from getting good results, can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
- Good communication & interpersonal skills
- Computer Literate (MS Office is a must)
- Willing to work under pressure with minimum supervision
- Good English both oral & written
- Energetic, enthusiast, smart
- Willing to work on shift
