Sr Project Manager, Engineering Programs & Innovation

Requisition Number: 67204

 

Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

 

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

 

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. 

Our Optical Communications segment has recently evolved from being a manufacturer of optical fiber and cable, hardware and equipment to being a comprehensive provider of industry-leading optical solutions across the broader communications industry.This segment is classified into two main product groupings – carrier network and enterprise network. The carrier network product group consists primarily of products and solutions for optical-based communications infrastructure for services such as video, data and voice communications. The enterprise network product group consists primarily of optical-based communication networks sold to businesses, governments and individuals for their own use.

Role Purpose

 

Provides leadership to engineering projects and associated engineering teams to improve processes and team performance. Works cross-functionally with other leaders and utilizes technical knowledge and critical thinking skills to advance the innovation process to enable the delivery of new products. Provides solutions to product quality issues by planning, organizing, and implementing improvement projects. Assists with organizational strategy planning and reviews

Key Responsibilities

 

• Ensures on-schedule and on-budget completion of operational deliverables for engineering programs
• Provides leadership and leads problem solving efforts to ensure timely resolution of project issues, to include forming and implementing long-term solutions
• Coordinate with other Program/Project Managers to ensure a clear, unified understanding of priorities and next steps needed to execute the operational plan
• Provides recommendations and direction to leaders and peers to ensure departmental and individual team effectiveness throughout the operational execution of engineering programs
• Proficient in use of statistical data analysis in the development and execution of operational forecasts. Track and analyze project performance to apply past trends to future planning
• Provides general engineering knowledge (understands theories and fundamentals) and leads projects to get to the root cause of product issues and puts permanent solutions in place
• Provides disciplined project leadership across multiple stages of innovation for new product and process improvement initiatives
• Develops subject matter expertise of materials, processes, and/or products in focused areas of manufacturing or engineering
• Work with internal and external customers to understand priorities and translate the customer priorities to an executable plan
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with external customers for quick response and problem solving

Required Education/Experiences

 

• Bachelor of Science in a technical field
• Minimum of 4 years of team leadership experience with proven success
• Ability to align and influence teams to deliver results
• Ability to simplify complex situations and deal with ambiguity
• Strong skills in data analysis 
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills
• Assertive, result-oriented and responsive; utilizes network, SMEs and other available resources to facilitate driving tasks to closure
• Ability to maint