Engineering Project Manager: Productivity & Process

Corning; Hickory (AL); On-site; USD 117,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-wide bonuses

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Corning seeks an Engineering Project Manager for the Unlock Productivity program, leading process-improvement and equipment-design projects. You’ll translate opportunities into executable engineering initiatives across lifecycle stages, coordinating cross-site teams to meet safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets.

You will drive design reviews, testing, startup on live lines, and manufacturing acceptance, delivering projects from definition to implementation with strong technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Mechatronic, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of project-management or project-leadership experience involving manufacturing process or equipment improvement.
• Experience leading projects from definition and concept development through equipment or process implementation.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and managing project scope, budgets, schedules, resources, risks, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with program, manufacturing, and engineering stakeholders to identify, define, prioritize, and scope productivity projects.
• Develop project objectives, business cases, budgets, schedules, resource plans, success criteria, and implementation strategies.
• Lead cross-functional teams through problem definition, root-cause analysis, concept development, technical evaluation, and solution selection.
• Provide technical leadership for process improvements, mechanical design, equipment, tooling, and automation development.
• Lead design reviews, risk assessments, prototype builds, testing, and technical validation to ensure solutions meet safety, quality, productivity, cost, reliability, and manufacturing requirements.
• Lead equipment and process installation, commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, validation, and manufacturing acceptance on live production lines.
• Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, operations, maintenance, quality, safety, suppliers, and contractors throughout project execution.
• Manage project scope, cost, schedule, resources, risks, changes, suppliers, and technical deliverables from definition through implementation.
• Track project results against approved business cases and drive actions required to achieve and sustain productivity improvements.
• Communicate project status, value, risks, resource needs, and key decisions to program, manufacturing, engineering, and senior leadership.
• Build alignment across organizations and drive timely decisions, accountability, and problem resolution.

Skills

Process engineering

Project leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Technical leadership

Root-cause analysis

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Mechatronic/Electrical/Industrial Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project planning tools

Job description

Corning seeks an Engineering Project Manager for the Unlock Productivity program, leading process-improvement and equipment-design projects. You’ll translate opportunities into executable engineering initiatives across lifecycle stages, coordinating cross-site teams to meet safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets.

You will drive design reviews, testing, startup on live lines, and manufacturing acceptance, delivering projects from definition to implementation with strong technical leadership.