Thermal Process Engineer - High-Temp Materials & Innovation

Corning Inc.; City of Corning (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonuses

Pension

401(k) match

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Employee recognition program

Job summary

Corning is seeking a Thermal Process Engineer to join our Manufacturing, Technology & Engineering team in Corning, NY. This onsite role emphasizes high-temperature processes and supports development-to-manufacturing transfer with travel around 50% to domestic sites.

You will analyze data, plan trials, and implement improvements across glass, ceramic, and related processes, aiming to enhance safety, quality, yield, and throughput while maintaining thorough documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of engineering experience in manufacturing or process development.
• Experience with high-temperature materials or processes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze process and product data to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve thermal process upsets, defects, yield losses, and equipment-performance issues.
• Plan and execute process trials, experiments, and evaluations; develop hypotheses and use structured problem-solving to recommend solutions.
• Support process scale-up, technology transfer, and manufacturing readiness from development through production.
• Partner with operators, technicians, manufacturing engineers, development teams, and other stakeholders to implement process improvements.
• Support manufacturing line startups, capacity expansions, equipment ramp-up, and process stabilization activities.
• Apply process improvement methods, such as root cause analysis, Design of Experiments, Lean, DMAIC, or similar tools, to improve safety, quality, cost, yield, and throughput.
• Maintain process documentation, standards, control plans, and operating procedures for assigned work.

Skills

High-temperature processes

Data analysis

Process troubleshooting

Written communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science/Engineering, Ceramic Engineering, Glass Science/Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Job description

Corning is seeking a Thermal Process Engineer to join our Manufacturing, Technology & Engineering team in Corning, NY. This onsite role emphasizes high-temperature processes and supports development-to-manufacturing transfer with travel around 50% to domestic sites.

You will analyze data, plan trials, and implement improvements across glass, ceramic, and related processes, aiming to enhance safety, quality, yield, and throughput while maintaining thorough documentation.