Senior Process Engineer - Drive Manufacturing Excellence

Corning; Hickory (AL); On-site; USD 97,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-wide bonuses

401(k) with company matching

Paid time off

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

Corning seeks a Process Engineer to drive manufacturing excellence by optimizing processes, solving technical challenges, and leading cross-functional projects that improve safety, quality, and productivity. You will support day-to-day production, transfer new products to manufacturing, and develop repeatable, data-driven improvements.

Travel is less than 10% and you will engage with Technology, Development, Maintenance, Quality, and Operations to ensure readiness.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience supporting production processes, equipment improvements, or continuous improvement initiatives preferred.
• Strong engineering, process improvement, and technical problem-solving fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily technical support to manufacturing operations to ensure safe, stable, and efficient production.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for process, equipment, quality, and productivity issues.
• Analyze manufacturing data to identify trends, establish process capability, and improve operational performance.
• Develop and implement corrective and preventive actions in partnership with production teams.
• Lead capital and productivity projects from concept through implementation.
• Prepare business cases, cost estimates, financial justifications, and capital funding requests.
• Coordinate equipment design, specification, procurement, installation, startup, qualification, training, spare-parts planning, and sustainment.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Data analysis

Technical problem-solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Project execution

Safety & quality mindset

MS Office / data-analysis tools

Tools

Minitab

DMAIC / 8D

PLC programming

Automation experience

Job description

Corning seeks a Process Engineer to drive manufacturing excellence by optimizing processes, solving technical challenges, and leading cross-functional projects that improve safety, quality, and productivity. You will support day-to-day production, transfer new products to manufacturing, and develop repeatable, data-driven improvements.

Travel is less than 10% and you will engage with Technology, Development, Maintenance, Quality, and Operations to ensure readiness.