Project Engineer, Gorilla Glass

Requisition Number: 74427

 

The company built on breakthroughs. ​  
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Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.  ​  

 

How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. ​  

 

​At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.​   

 

Come break through with us.  

 

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, automotive, and solar 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 
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

 

Role within the Organization:

 

• Project Engineer role to drive improvements in Gorilla division. The focus of this position is on the design and development of robust, first/next generation process machine systems and products that provide significant competitive advantage to Corning’s businesses, and / or enable new products and product lines. Lead and manage project teams responsible to new Gorilla® Glass process technologies, capacity expansions, and rebuilds in support of overall business objectives. Position requires demonstrated skills in manufacturing engineering, project management and team leadership, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to work across Development, Engineering, and Manufacturing organizations.
• Selected candidates will be a member of our multi-functional engineering project team, working through all stages from concept generation and development, detail design/build, system integration, and start-up to support our manufacturing sites worldwide.

 

Required Skills:

 

• Project leadership responsibility for assigned projects from AR development through successful execution and transfer to manufacturing.
• Development and leadership of large, highly matrixed multi-national project teams. Establish roles, responsibilities and competencies required for the project. Builds an effective project team utilizing internal and external personnel resources with the ability to operate and supervise matrixed organizations. Establish receivership requirements for project.
• Proficient in applying core engineering concepts, which are the fundamental ideas that guide the design, analysis, and optimization of engineering systems. Principles in engineering, such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and material science are understood and applied.
• Work with external machine builders, system integrators, and suppliers to successfully deliver assigned areas of responsibility to overall project team on-time, on-budget, and to meet process performance measures.
• Lead and manage domestic and internation project activities, status, and issues on a periodic basis to project & department leadership.
• Capable of working independently in a team-based environment.
• Manage new equipment design projects to ensure timely drawing completion, material sourcing, fabrication, testing, shipment, and installation/commissioning.
• Automated Unpackage/Pack machine, integrated camera systems, machine to machine part transfer, part traffic control and online metrology integration. Supporting mechanical, electrical, and pneumatical design, monitored build, facilitated heavy debug, installation, and production support as required.