Process Engineering Supervisor

Requisition Number: 74107

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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, automotive, and solar 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 
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

Scope of Position:

• This position leads an engineering team to provide the processes, equipment, and tools, allowing manufacturing to 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 problem-solving techniques, and leveraging continuous improvement and data analysis methodologies to identify process and system improvement recommendations.
• 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.
• 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.
• Leads and coordinates the department’s new product integration process.
• Apply engineering principles to increase process knowledge and capability.
• Identify, prioritize and lead process improvements to reduce cost, increase capacity, and extend process capability (variability, cycle-time reduction, yield improvement, rework elimination, complexity, and scrap reduction)
• 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-term (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.

Required Education & Experience:

• We require a Bachelors’ degree in an engineering or science field. Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or Optical Engineering is preferred.
• 7+ years of process engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience applying problem solving, statistical process control and continuous improvement methodologies: Performance Excellence, DMAIC, Lean, Six Sigma, root cause analysis, data analysis, or others
• Experience applying process control and process discipline methodologies in manufacturing.

• Must have strong, data-driven, problem-solving skills
• Proven success leading Lean manufacturing initiatives (Kaizen, 5S, waste elimination).
• Track record of cycle time reduction, yield improvement, and rework elimination.
• Supervisory experience is desired but not required.

Travel Requirements: 

• We anticipate less than 5% travel for this role. Typical travel includes special training/networking opportunities and potential customer and vendor visits.

Hours of work:

• • Typical first shift production hours
  • Evening and weekend support as needed

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. 

A job that shapes a life.  

Corning offers you the total package.  

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.

Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.