Regional Process Engineer

Education & Experience

1. Optic, mechanical or Chemical/material related Bachelor or Master degree.
2. 10+ years shop floor process engineering experience
3. 5+ years international project experience involving new product development and new product development, prototyping, and optimization.
4. 3+ years Project leading experience

Key Responsibilities

1. Implement OCS PQA to ensure processes which run to global standard and execute process optimization and improvement with Plant Engineering and OCS Division Core Process Engineering (T2 Engineer).
2. Follow Innovation Process Platform (IPP) to execute new production introduction
   1. Engage new product development on mass production process optimization with OCS Technology Engineering (TE) and optimize process for mass production.
   2. Transfer product and process to Manufacturing with Plant Engineering
3. Lead or participate in projects of process improvements to address quality and yield issues, reduce production cycle times with T2 Engineer and Plant Engineering through PEx Methodology.
4. Author process improvement capability plans. Complete technical reports for internal publication.
5. Visibly support the establishment and maintenance of a safe work environment.
6. Identify gaps in plants’ manufacturing capabilities with Plant Engineering and make recommendations to improve. Execute those improvements.
7. Report on project activities on a pre-determined basis.  Ensure results meet the Corning OCS requirements and standards.
8. Job requires occasional travel to Corning plants for process development for new products, new operation, and process improvement projects.
9. Individual must be capable of executing project assignments with minimal supervision.

Required Skills

1. Strong project management skills. Detail oriented and able to perform with limited supervision
2. Good problems solving and analytical capabilities (particularly statistical analysis) through using DMIAC, KT, TRIZ…etc. Must be able to independently drive issue resolution on production floor.
3. Proactive, independent, flexible, quick learner
4. Effective, high quality oral and written communication skills with English
5. Excellent communications, interpersonal and influencing skills.
6. High initiative, able to work with a minimum of direction, and able to work in team environment

1. 1. Ability to build effective working relationships with others
   2. Ability to manage multiple priorities tasks
   3. Ability to contribute to the development of others

1. Proactive, independent, flexible, quick learner
2. Fluent skills with statistical tools
3. Customer oriented; meets customer needs with quality results
4. Responsible for the accuracy of work performed; takes a proactive approach to ensure quality of work

Desired Skills

1. DMAIC GB Certification.
2. PMP Certification would be a plus
3. 3+ years working experience with CAD/CAM capability especially fixture design and improvement, or precision cutting/finishing capability.
4. 5+ years experience with optic product and process tuning and optimization, such as polishing, epoxy dispensing/curing…etc.
5. Knowledge of optical inspection process, such as insertion loss, core pitch…etc.

Soft Skills

1. Self starter who is able to satisfy their objectives and timelines with a minimal amount of supervision.
2. Ability to work in a team based environment and participate on a matrix project team.
3. Project management, Results oriented with a high commitment level
4. Familiar with structured problem-solving methodologies:8D ,DMAIC, Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiment (DOE)