Albin Thomas — Manufacturing Operations Leader & Industry 4.0 Builder

Albin Thomas is an operational leader with people and digital at the core. He is Plant Manager at Saint-Gobain Corhart Refractories in Buckhannon, West Virginia, with full P&L responsibility for a $90M+, 140-employee unionized site, and eleven years at Saint-Gobain. He pairs operational manufacturing leadership with hands-on, practical digitalization — writing the Industry 4.0 software that runs on his own plant floor. Curating a life of intention, depth, and discovery.

Sections

• Professional — eleven years at Saint-Gobain: career history, strengths, current role and education.
• Industry 4.0 — BOMR, JayFlex, Smart Blanchard and the Smart Furnace: the costing engine, the machine-learning diagnostic engine, and two machines made smarter.
• Personal — the human behind the résumé: travel, music, markets and how he spends a good weekend.
• Contact — email, LinkedIn and Instagram.

In short

• Plant Manager, Saint-Gobain Corhart Refractories — Buckhannon, West Virginia.
• Full P&L of a $90M+, 140-person unionized site; record EBITA in the first full year.
• Built BOMR, a costing engine that writes its own SAP transactions; and JayFlex, a machine-learning diagnostic engine with an LLM chat interface.
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology (4.0 GPA).
• Contact: email@albinthomas.com