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Engineering Department Head/Supervisor (Mfg)

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Date: Sep 30, 2025

Location: Fairport, NY, US, 14450

Company: Corning

Requisition Number: 71101

 

The company built on breakthroughs. ​  
Join us.​                    

                                                          

Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.  ​  

 

How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. ​  

 

​At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.​   

 

Come break through with us.  

 

Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with: 

  • Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
  • Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
  • Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
  • Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
  •  Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 

Scope of Poistion:

  • This position leads an engineering team to provide the processes, equipment, and tools so manufacturing can consistently achieve their throughput, uptime, and quality goals. 
  • The supervisory responsibilities include aligning the team’s priorities to achieve plant goals, developing process engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching problemsolving techniques, and leveraging continuous improvement and data analysis methodologies to identify process and system improvement recommendations.
  • This position includes technical process engineering responsibilities in optical fabrication.
  • The technical engineering responsibilities include troubleshooting production issues, developing processes, optimizing processes, improving yields and integrating new products into manufacturing.
  • This position works very closely with manufacturing, safety, quality, and supply chain. The supervisor reports directly to the Plant Engineering Manager. 

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Provide direct supervision to department’s engineering team.

• Utilize technical expertise to support production and perform process engineering work.

• Relentlessly guide engineering team to provide current information, equipment, and tools to support process control and process discipline efforts: ensure that the team maintains documentation, monitors and responds to process and production data, implements system fixes, drives to root cause, improves fabrication methods, and makes data-based decisions.

• Apply engineering principles to increase process knowledge and capability.

• Identify, prioritize and implement process improvements to eliminate waste and reduce costs.

• Responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and implementing engineering actions for manufacturing to meet production goals, safety, quality, and cost objectives.

• Develop engineers to achieve their technical and professional goals 

• Champion using processes and quality systems to provide the most current process information, complete corrective actions, implement experiments, and ensure that equipment is safe.

• Work with management to set short (annual) and long term (3-5 year) goals and priorities. Facilitate and direct efforts to meet or exceed the goals.

• Leads team to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies. 

Experiences/Education - Required

• Minimum a Bachelors’ degree in an engineering or science field. Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or Optical Engineering is preferred. 

• Experience applying problem solving and continuous improvement methodologies: Performance Excellence, DMAIC, Lean, root cause analysis, data analysis, or others

• Minimum of 6 years of process engineering experience in a manufacturing environment. 

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in optical fabrication techniques, such as CNC grinding, CNC polishing, conventional polishing, CNC centering/truncating/coring, MRF and interferometry.

• Supervisory experience is desired, but not required. 

Experiences/Education - Desired

  •  Supervisory experience is desired, but not required.

 

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

 

The range for this position is $125,734.00 - $172,884.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position are dependent on hours worked and may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, pension plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, and PTO.

 

A job that shapes a life.  

Corning offers you the total package.  

 

 Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial, and career from day one

  • As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit that grows throughout your career.  We also offer a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions.  
  • Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, and disease management programs. 
  • Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives, align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well – when Corning wins, we all win.     
  • Getting paid for our work is important but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a peer-to-peer recognition program to celebrate success by recognizing colleagues who demonstrate above-and-beyond behaviors.  

 

We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.


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