Operations Process Engineer

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Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with:

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation

Corning is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, creating and manufacturing keystone components that enable high-technology systems. Corning’s history is filled with breakthrough technologies that have played an important role in the way the world works. We thrive on solving difficult, commercially relevant problems through an innovative and collaborative research and development process. Corning succeeds through sustained investment in R&D, more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, and a distinctive collaborative culture.

Corning’s Mobile Consumer Electronics segment manufactures chemically strengthened cover and back glass, such as Gorilla® Glass® for the consumer electronics market.

• Drive operational excellence by analyzing, designing, and optimizing processes.
• Enhance efficiency, reduce costs, improve quality, and ensure seamless workflows across the organization.
• Supervision in the Harrodsburg Operations organization, with knowledge spanning both the Mixing and Operations departments
  • Including shift supervision coverage based on staffing and team strategy
• Define and implement improvements within the Operations organization, including lean, operational excellence, increased technical skills, safety projects and performance gains
• Support project/development activities such as new process, equipment/product introductions and cost reduction projects related to the production floor
• Achieve plant safety, cost, quality and delivery targets

• Analyze current operational processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
• Design and implement process improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and improve quality.
• Utilize data analysis tools and techniques to monitor process performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and systems to enhance operational capabilities.
• Train and support staff in adopting new processes and tools.
• Monitor and report on the progress of process improvement projects to key stakeholders.
• Knowledgeable resource on both Mixing and Operations procedures and policies
• Will backfill responsibilities of the Operations Section Supervisor in their absence
• Provide daily direction to operations employees using established guidelines, procedures, and policies
• Communicate and report operations performance metrics to production teams, plant operations staff and functional leaders
• Ensure production targets and delivery requirements are met on a daily and weekly basis
• Hold operators accountable for adherence to established procedures and operating setpoints for process control with ensuring awareness and compliance to changes
• Build effective relations with plant support groups, including…