Process Engineer

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Maintain close communication with Division Engineering and plant partners to support timely issue resolution, as well as the start-up, ramp-up, and capability establishment of new equipment and processes.
• Lead the development of fundamental knowledge related to anti-reflective and easy-to-clean coating processes, ensuring stable and consistent production performance.
• Develop new technologies and process improvements that support market leadership and Corning’s low-cost, high-quality strategy.
• Build partnerships with Controls and Equipment teams to support technology development and deepen process understanding.
• Partner with plant engineering teams to effectively implement process, equipment, and control changes.
• Provide advanced engineering support for plant troubleshooting and problem-solving activities.
• Build effective relationships and maintain strong interactions with internal and external customers and stakeholders.
• Monitor and analyze daily process-capability performance data, including FAI, IPQC, SPC, and process Cpk/Ppk; conduct troubleshooting, including material analysis, when performance falls below expectations.
• Lead experiments and performance-improvement projects to achieve targets for product quality, yield, uptime, cost, and capacity.
• Serve as the plant technical leader for coating processes; work with equipment engineers to optimize process-equipment interactions and collaborate with other process areas to identify and address process interactions.
• Train operators, shift leaders, managers, and other engineers.
• Provide weekend and shift coverage as required.
• Report issues using professional data analysis and clear, logical communication.
• Lead medium-scope projects, including but not limited to project planning, resource development, AR initiation, spending control, production scale-up, and project transfer.
• Prepare technical briefs and engineering documents; establish engineering and operational work instructions; develop training materials; provide technical direction to partner engineers; and coach operators.
• Collect customer feedback, develop corrective action plans, promptly resolve customer complaints, and provide updates to the management team with appropriate documentation.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or above in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Coating Process Engineer in a manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years in a multinational company.
• Experience working with and/or supervising project teams.
• Prior involvement in early-stage innovation programs is preferred.
• 2+ years of supervisory experience is preferred.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of PVD coating, spray coating, and related thin-film deposition processes.
• Familiarity with thin-film characterization methods and equipment, including ellipsometers, spectrometers, optical microscopes, SEM-EDS, AFM, and contact-angle measurement; familiarity with organic-material chemical analysis techniques such as FTIR and TOF-SIMS.
• Familiarity with cover-lens reliability testing, including abrasion, solar radiation, and high-temperature/high-humidity tests.
• Fundamental understanding of anti-reflective and easy-to-clean coating processes, with experience in new solvent and solute qualification.
• Experience in cost reduction, yield improvement, capacity expansion, and troubleshooting.
• Experience applying structured problem-solving methodologies, such as DMAIC, Kepner-Tregoe (KT), and DOE, to lead root-cause analysis and process improvement.
• Curious, self-motivated, and committed to continuous learning.
• Experience in coating-process modeling.
• Experience in data analysis, including but not limited to big-data analysis, statistical analysis, MSA, and SPC.

Desired Skills

• Strong ownership and commitment to achieving plant goals.
• A strong sense of urgency and creativity in resolving project issues and adapting plans to meet objectives.
• Flexibility to adapt to a changing environment and act as a change agent to support others through change.
• Customer-oriented, with the ability to meet customer needs through high-quality results.
• A positive, collaborative attitude in a team environment.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity.