Operations Section Supervisor

Corning•Glendale, AZ

22h•$106,400 - $146,300

About The Position

The Operations Section Supervisor oversees all aspects of an assigned production area and end-to-end manufacturing operations at Corning’s Phoenix plant. The role leads and develops a large, multi-shift production team, ensuring employees have the tools, resources, training, and guidance to work safely and effectively. The supervisor owns production planning and execution, promotes a strong safety and quality culture, and establishes, monitors, and improves production-floor performance indicators. Through data-driven decisions, Lean leadership, and continuous improvement, the position optimizes efficiency, cost, quality, yield, uptime, labor effectiveness, and throughput to meet business, service, and profitability objectives. Corning’s Specialty Materials segment manufactures glass, glass ceramics, and fluoride crystals for a broad range of customer needs and markets, including display and semiconductor optics, aerospace and defense, astronomy, ophthalmic products, telecommunications, and portable-device cover glass.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in a high-volume manufacturing, production, or plant operations environment.
At least 3 years of progressive leadership experience in a high-volume manufacturing, production, or plant operations environment, including responsibility for multi-shift teams, production execution, KPI performance, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated ability to lead large, multi-shift manufacturing teams, including salaried leaders and hourly production employees.
Successful supervisory, team leader, section supervisor, or department leadership experience in a manufacturing plant environment.
Ability to use production data and KPIs to guide operational decisions, improve performance, and communicate results across plant and business leadership.
Knowledge of quality control procedures, manufacturing standards, customer requirements, and disciplined problem solving.
Understanding of manufacturing processes, equipment reliability, maintenance coordination, and production support systems.
Familiarity with safety regulations, compliance requirements, incident prevention, and safety management systems.
Ability to manage, coach, direct, develop, and hold salaried exempt, non-exempt, and hourly employees accountable.
Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across production, engineering, maintenance, quality, supply chain, logistics, commercial, and plant leadership teams.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience leading large-scale ramp, capacity expansion, productivity, cost-reduction, or operational-transformation initiatives in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Exposure to multiple manufacturing processes, production technologies, automation, equipment reliability systems, and corporate network resources.
Experience participating in or leading cross-functional teams delivering improvement initiatives, new product introductions, or manufacturing-readiness projects.
Experience communicating across plant, business, division, commercial, supply chain, and customer-facing stakeholders.
Strong understanding of Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma fundamentals, continuous improvement, standard work, root-cause analysis, and process control.
Training, understanding, and demonstrated competence in plant manufacturing financials, budgeting, cost management, and resource optimization.

Responsibilities

Execute production plans and schedules to meet customer demand and achieve throughput, cost, quality, delivery, inventory, safety, service, and growth targets.
Lead, coach, and develop manufacturing leaders and hourly production teams across a multi-shift operation; ensure appropriate staffing, training, performance management, and employee engagement.
Establish, track, communicate, and improve production KPIs, including safety, quality, yield, uptime, scrap, labor efficiency, output, schedule adherence, and asset effectiveness.
Provide daily direction to production leaders on priorities, procedures, escalations, and performance expectations.
Champion process control, change management, and root-cause problem solving to improve process capability, reduce variation, and strengthen operational stability.
Maintain product and process quality standards in accordance with specifications, quality systems, customer expectations, and manufacturing best practices.
Lead Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce waste, improve flow, increase equipment reliability, and deliver cost and productivity improvements.
Manage budgets, resource plans, labor utilization, and production costs to optimize performance, minimize waste, and support business priorities.
Own production-area safety performance and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal standards, training requirements, and safe work practices.
Collaborate with Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Logistics, and other support departments to align priorities, remove production barriers, support customer commitments, and drive accountability for results.
Apply manufacturing best practices, production data, automation concepts, and emerging technologies to improve performance, reliability, and decision-making.
Deploy Corning talent-management programs to attract, develop, and retain manufacturing talent, and ensure salaried employees have meaningful training and development plans.