Process Engineering Supervisor

Corning•Village of Fairport, NY

21d•Onsite

About The Position

This position leads an engineering team to provide the processes, equipment, and tools, allowing manufacturing to consistently achieve their throughput, uptime, and quality goals. The supervisory responsibilities include aligning the team’s priorities to achieve plant goals, developing process engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching problem-solving techniques, and leveraging continuous improvement and data analysis methodologies to identify process and system improvement recommendations. This position works very closely with manufacturing, safety, quality, and supply chain. The supervisor reports directly to the Plant Engineering Manager.

Requirements

Bachelors’ degree in an engineering or science field.
7+ years of process engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated experience applying problem solving, statistical process control and continuous improvement methodologies: Performance Excellence, DMAIC, Lean, Six Sigma, root cause analysis, data analysis, or others
Experience applying process control and process discipline methodologies in manufacturing.
Strong, data-driven, problem-solving skills
Proven success leading Lean manufacturing initiatives (Kaizen, 5S, waste elimination).
Track record of cycle time reduction, yield improvement, and rework elimination.

Nice To Haves

Mechanical Engineering, Material Science, or Optical Engineering is preferred.
Supervisory experience is desired but not required.

Responsibilities

Provide direct supervision to department’s engineering team.
Relentlessly guide engineering team to provide current information, equipment, and tools to support process control and process discipline efforts: ensure that the team maintains documentation, monitors and responds to process and production data, implements system fixes, drives to root cause, improves fabrication methods, and makes data-based decisions.
Leads and coordinates the department’s new product integration process.
Apply engineering principles to increase process knowledge and capability.
Identify, prioritize and lead process improvements to reduce cost, increase capacity, and extend process capability (variability, cycle-time reduction, yield improvement, rework elimination, complexity, and scrap reduction)
Responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and implementing engineering actions for manufacturing to meet production goals, safety, quality, and cost objectives.
Develop engineers to achieve their technical and professional goals
Champion using processes and quality systems to provide the most current process information, complete corrective actions, implement experiments, and ensure that equipment is safe.
Work with management to set short-term (annual) and long-term (3-5 year) goals and priorities. Facilitate and direct efforts to meet or exceed the goals.
Leads team to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies.