Melting equipment engineer (F/H)

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

Leads technical team in solving complex problems on new product and process development, with sound technological approaches. Designs experiments and develops testing methods to validate theoretical models. Recognized as an expert in one or more areas of science or technology. Understands Corning's Intellectual Property management processes and follows that process in documenting any Intellectual Property developed as part of a project or experiment. Builds networks of resources for effective execution of projects

• 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