Engineer III
Corning•Village of Fairport, NY
•$97,286 - $133,768•Onsite
About The Position
The Coating Process Engineering Lead provides technical leadership and people leadership for coating process engineering in a high-mix optical manufacturing environment. This role is accountable for safe, stable, and capable coating operations, continuous improvement, and the development of a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting production, new product introduction, and future capability expansion.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science (Optical, Physics, Materials, Chemical, Mechanical, or related)
- 5+ years of experience in a process engineering role supporting manufacturing
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and influence across organizations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt or equivalent training
Nice To Haves
- Experience with optical thin-film coating or vacuum deposition processes
- Knowledge of metrology tools (interferometers, spectrophotometers, ellipsometers, SEM, profilometers)
- Experience in high-mix manufacturing environments
- Experience managing people and teams
Responsibilities
- Lead coating process engineering support for vacuum coating chambers and associated cleaning and inspection processes
- Specify, qualify, and improve optical thin-film coating processes that build from existing designs and manufacturing foundations
- Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions using structured problem-solving methodologies (DOE, Six Sigma, hypothesis trees)
- Own process documentation, specifications, and change management (routers, work instructions, process sheets)
- Provide day-to-day engineering support for production issues
- Partner with operations to maintain manufacturing capability, throughput, and schedule adherence
- Lead qualification of new equipment, processes, materials, and recipes to eliminate single points of failure
- Support customer requests, audits, and issue resolution as a technical point of contact
- Lead projects to reduce cost through scrap, cycle-time, and complexity reduction
- Apply metrology and data analytics to monitor and improve coating performance
- Support new product introductions and scale-up from development to production
- Contribute to long-term technology and capacity planning
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of process engineers and technicians
- Set technical direction, priorities, and workload balancing across shifts and programs
- Provide performance feedback, mentoring, and succession development
- Foster a strong safety culture and inclusive engineering environment
Benefits
- Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives
- 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions
- Matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan
- Medical, dental, vision
- Paid parental leave
- Family building support
- Fitness
- Company-paid life insurance
- Disability
- Disease management programs
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Recognition program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
