Operations Process Engineer - Drive Manufacturing Excellence

Corning Inc.; Harrodsburg (KY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-wide bonuses

Company-paid pension

Comprehensive health benefits

Employee recognition program

Job summary

Corning Inc. in Kentucky is seeking an Operations Process Engineer to support, optimize, and maintain mixing manufacturing processes, enabling safe, efficient, high-quality production.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues and drive cost-effective improvements. The role emphasizes statistical analysis, process understanding, and continuous improvement, with a focus on reducing defects and downtime while meeting health and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical or Materials Engineering (preferred).
• 2+ years of experience in manufacturing, process engineering, or operations.
• Familiarity with Six Sigma, Lean, DMAIC, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement tools; Green Belt preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own daily process performance by supporting production, monitoring metrics, and responding to issues.
• Develop and maintain subject matter expertise in materials, processes, and equipment technologies.
• Troubleshoot process excursions and drive corrective and preventive actions via root cause analysis.
• Apply engineering principles, statistics, and data to improve stability, yield, throughput, and cost.
• Lead CI projects to reduce defects, downtime, scrap, cycle time, and variation.
• Ensure health, safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance; identify risks and mitigation actions.
• Support trials, ramp-ups, and documentation for new materials, processes, and equipment.
• Build and sustain process knowledge through standards, learnings, and technical discipline.

Skills

Process optimization

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical or Materials Engineering

Green Belt certification preferred

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Corning Inc. in Kentucky is seeking an Operations Process Engineer to support, optimize, and maintain mixing manufacturing processes, enabling safe, efficient, high-quality production.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues and drive cost-effective improvements. The role emphasizes statistical analysis, process understanding, and continuous improvement, with a focus on reducing defects and downtime while meeting health and safety standards.