Senior Facilities Engineer

Scope of Position:
In this position you will provide the leadership to plan / scope, coordinate and control complex projects involving multiple disciplines for Optical Fiber and Cable manufacturing processes worldwide, improving our ability to understand and control these processes services and thereby meeting our manufacturing objectives. You will also solve state of the art manufacturing problems requiring sophisticated engineering approaches, computational procedures, and broad engineering and scientific knowledge. You will act as the principal lead on one or more projects and provide technical leadership on facilities projects.

Day to Day Responsibilities:
•    Principal lead on one or more projects.  
•    Propose, plan (scope), and implement projects requiring engineering analysis and modeling. 
•    Define the scope, financial impact, key activities, and method of evaluation on projects. 
•    Monitors and controls the technical, cost, and time objectives of the projects.
•    Re-allocates funds and personnel to meet project requirements.
•    Initiate and implement major process improvement projects leading to improved understanding, significant cost reduction, or quality improvement.
•    Develop staffing requirements for projects. Ensure coordination, interaction, and effect resource utilization of appropriate groups on projects.
•    Direct the activities of other engineering personnel assigned to the projects.  
•    Provide technical leadership on one or more projects. Primary technical leadership on Facilities Process systems. Project management will be required on a wide variety of projects and not restricted to only Facilities Process related systems.
•    Act as a division consultant on problems involving delivery and integration of process services Worldwide for Optical Fiber and Cables locations. 
•    Maintain knowledge of current work being conducted both inside and outside of Corning in the areas of optical fiber and cables.
•    Effectively communicate plans, progress, and problems to all concerned parties.
•    Document results.
•    Ensures coordination and interaction with other organizations that are involved in the projects. 
•    Trains other engineering personnel in project engineering, modeling, and engineering analysis

Education/Experience:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering required. 
•    5+ years of field engineering experience. 
•    Experience working in manufacturing or industrial environments.
•    Experience with power distribution, automation, and controls systems is a plus.

Travel Requirement:
Your travel could be as much as 25-50% and could include international travel. Travel duration is based on project work.  

Required Skills:
•    Demonstrated project management skills.
•    Exceptional time management and organization skills
•    Demonstrated ability to take projects from conception to commissioning; balancing several at a time. 
•    Experience working with suppliers, contractors, technical staff
•    Skilled at reading and interpreting drawings and piping and instrumentation diagrams
•    Can identify potential problems and offer corrective or preventative actions.

Soft Skills:
•    Demonstrated ability to secure cooperative and effective performance from associates assigned to projects.
•    Maintain and value diversity / quality of personnel recruited, trained, and promoted.
•    Have a deep appreciation for the safety aspects of the Process Services design and the implementation.
•    Self-starter. Able to work alone or in teams equally well.
•    Ability to build relationships within cross functional groups; team building skills
•    Strong written and oral communication skills
•    Ability to manage large external teams of contractors/sub-contractors to achieve project objectives