Industrial minerals producer of silica sand, feldspar, clays and coated materials
Covia mines and processes industrial minerals such as high-purity silica sand, nepheline syenite and kaolin for glass, coatings, foundry and construction markets. Its stack is plant-floor heavy: Allen-Bradley PLCs programmed in RSLogix, Ignition and Wonderware SCADA, LabWare LIMS and a CMMS, sitting alongside IFS Cloud, SAP and OneStream. Operations-dominated hiring and projects around brownfield control deployments and OT network modernization point to active plant automation investment.
Covia is a privately held industrial minerals company headquartered in Independence, Ohio, founded in 2018 and employing between 1,001 and 5,000 people. It produces high-purity silica sand, nepheline syenite, feldspar, kaolin and ball clays, cristobalite and coated materials. Customers span glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration and sports and recreation markets. Operations run across US mining and processing plants, with hiring concentrated in plant operations, manufacturing, engineering and logistics roles.
Covia runs IFS and IFS Cloud, SAP, Oracle and OneStream for business systems, plus Allen-Bradley PLCs, RSLogix, Ignition, Wonderware, LabWare LIMS, SQL Server and Power BI for plant operations and reporting.
Covia is headquartered in Independence, Ohio, United States, and currently hires only within the United States.
Job posts point to brownfield control system deployments, control design for new construction, OT device-level network modernization, a preventative maintenance program and plant safety and health programs.
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