Lead Melting Equipment Engineer & Technical Innovator

Corning Incorporated; Avon; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Corning Incorporated is seeking a senior technical leader to guide product and process development in a high-impact role. You will supervise teams, design experiments, validate models, and drive new materials, processes, and equipment improvements aligned with cost and customer specifications.

You will influence cross-functional partners, mentor SMEs, and safeguard intellectual property while delivering practical, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Requires MS in a technical field or PhD in a related field.
• Academic or research experience.
• Experience leading challenging projects with no simple solutions.
• Ability to influence others as a technical lead.
• Experience designing and executing experiments.

Responsibilities

• Leads development of theoretical models, new processes, new materials, testing methods or equipment to apply to process, design or manufacturing issues.
• Leads technical teams in solving complex problems on new product and process development
• Designs experiments and develops testing methods to validate theoretical models
• Develops new processes and improved equipment design
• Develop products, processes and technologies to meet cost objectives and customer specifications
• Provides technical leadership in troubleshooting
• Communicates technical plans, technical solutions and approaches both up and down the organization to technical and non-technical audiences
• May have direct report responsibilities including career development and ongoing performance feedback
• Coaches, mentors and/or develops team members and emerging SMEs
• Identifies, secures and prioritizes necessary tools and resources
• Leads small to medium technical projects
• Contributes to organizational, strategic or commercial problem solving
• Links with commercial and new business organizations for product attributes, customer special requests, and other technical inquiries or testing
• Uses and champions the Innovation Process and Manufacturing Excellence Engineering principles
• Documents findings and communicates learnings through RTR Reports
• M.S. in technical field and related experience or Ph.D. in technical field
• Academic or research experience
• Experience with challenging projects that did not have simple solutions as well as experience with persevering through difficult problems
• Has ability to influence others as technical lead
• Has designed and executed experiments

Skills

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Experiment design

Testing methods

Communication

Mentoring

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

IP management

Education

M.S. in technical field

Ph.D. in technical field

Job description

Corning Incorporated is seeking a senior technical leader to guide product and process development in a high-impact role. You will supervise teams, design experiments, validate models, and drive new materials, processes, and equipment improvements aligned with cost and customer specifications.

You will influence cross-functional partners, mentor SMEs, and safeguard intellectual property while delivering practical, scalable solutions.