Senior Process Engineer: Manufacturing & CI Leader

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

Job summary

Corning Incorporated in Hickory, NC is seeking a Sr. Process Engineer to drive manufacturing excellence through process optimization, data-driven decision making, and new technology implementation. You will independently manage technical projects and support day-to-day production.

You will collaborate across functions to transfer new products and materials into production, develop process controls, and lead capital projects while ensuring safety, quality and cost objectives.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting production processes, equipment improvements, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving fundamentals.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, and technology organizations.
• Excellent project execution, planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.

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.
• Ensure projects achieve safety, operational, quality, and financial objectives.
• Support the transfer of new products, materials, technologies, and processes from development into manufacturing.
• Partner with various teams to ensure manufacturing readiness and process repeatability before production release.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Data analysis

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Project execution

Communication

Microsoft Office

Tools

Minitab

PLC programming

Industrial networking

Job description

Corning Incorporated in Hickory, NC is seeking a Sr. Process Engineer to drive manufacturing excellence through process optimization, data-driven decision making, and new technology implementation. You will independently manage technical projects and support day-to-day production.

You will collaborate across functions to transfer new products and materials into production, develop process controls, and lead capital projects while ensuring safety, quality and cost objectives.