Process Engineer **Date:** Feb 18, 2025 **Location:** Hefei, AH, CN, 230011 **Company:** Corning Requisition Number: 67099 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. 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 **Day to Day Responsibilities:** + Keep close contact with Division Engineering and plant partners for timely communication and issue resolution, support the startup, ramp-up and capability setup of new equipment/process. + Lead fundamental understanding knowledge build about Anti-Reflective/Easy-To-Clean coating process, maintain the stability and consistency of production. + New technology/improvement development that lead the market and achieve Corning's low-cost/high-quality strategy. + Develop partnerships with Control/Equipment teams for technology development & fundamental understanding. + Partner with plant engineering for effective implementation of process or equipment / controls changes. + Provide higher level engineering support for plant troubleshooting and problem solving. + Build effective relations and interactions with internal/external customers and stakeholders. + Daily process capability performance data (FAI, IPQC, SPC, process Cpk/Ppk) monitoring and analysis, and do troubleshooting when performance is below expectation, including materials analysis. + Lead experiments and performance improvement projects to achieve target goal, including product quality, yield, uptime, lowest cost and capacity. + Be the technical leader in the plant for coating work with equipment engineers to optimize process/equipment interactions, working with other process areas to identify process interactions. + Train operators, shift leaders, managers, and other engineers. + Weekend and shift coverage are requirement as needed. + Report out the issues with professional data analysis and clear logical process. + Project management leadership of project with intermediate scope, include but not limited to project planning, resources building, AR initiation, spending control, production scale up and project transferring. + Write technical Brief and Engineering documents, establish engineering or operational work instructions; develop training materials and provide direction to partner engineers and coach operators. + Collect customer feedback, corrective action plan providing and quick solve customer complain and report to management team and documentation. **Education & Experience** + BS/MS degree or above in Materials, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent. + 7+ years’ experience on the position of Coating Process Engineer in manufacturing environment, including 2+ years in multi-national company. + Experiences in working with and/or supervising project teams. + Former experience with involvement in earlier stage innovation programs preferred. + 2+ years supervisory experience preferred. **Required Skills** + PVD coating, spray coating and related thin film deposition process methods. + Familiar with thin film properties measure methods (Ellipsometer, spectrometer, optical microscope, SEM-EDS, AFM, contact angle...) and organic material chemical analysis (like FTIR, TOF-SIMS). + Familiar with cover lens reliability test (Abrasion test, solar radiation test, high temperature/high humidity test...). + Have fundamental understanding about Anti-Reflective/Easy-To-Clean coating process, have the experience of new solvent/solute qualification. + Have cost reduction, yield improvement, capacity expansion and trouble-shooting experience. + Used structured problem-solving methods such as DMAIC, KT ,DOE lead problem solving and process improvement. + Has curiosity, loves to study, and the ability to continuously learn. + Have coating process modeling experience. + Have data analysis experience (include but not limited to big data analysis, statistical analysis, MSA, SPC). **Desired Skills** + Project management experience + Understanding of equipment mechanical operations and control + Understanding of DMAIC, Lean and Six-Sigma methods and tools + Good oral and written communication skill, including in English **Soft Skills** + Strong ownership of achieving plant goal + Sense of urgency and creativity to handle project issues and adapt plan to meet objectives + Flexibility to adapt to changing environment; be a change agent to help others through change + Customer oriented; meets customer needs with quality results + Positive working attitude in team + Cross-cultural Sensitivity We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 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