Staff Engineer - Chemical Processing

Corning•City of Corning, NY

21d•Remote

About The Position

Corning Advanced-Flow Reactor™ (AFR) is a global leader in end-to-end flow chemical processing for pharma, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and high-performance materials industries. AFR technology is changing the way chemicals are produced, enabling more efficient and safer processing. AFR is looking for an application engineer for the North American market. Primary technical contact between the customer and Corning, the Application Engineer ensures a smooth match between the customer needs and the technical offer provided by Corning (products, services and technical support).

Requirements

Minimum BS degree in Chemical Engineering or related discipline
At least 5 years of experience in a chemical engineering role, with a strong practical experimental experience
Chemical engineering with a concentration on reaction, fluid flow and heat transfer
Experience with safety planning (Safety assessment, plan, etc….)
Being able to work autonomously and proactively at customer sites
Excellent problem-solving and decision-making, rigorous and well-organized
Strong interpersonal and networking skills in a multicultural environment
Hands on technical problem-solving skills
Flexibility/adaptability to unexpected situations/ behavior/ working subject
Resilient and copes well with stressful situations
Strong Leadership and negotiation skills

Nice To Haves

Experience in flow-chemistry/continuous process and equipment
Experience with transferring a chemical process from lab to manufacturing
Solid basis in organic or inorganic chemistry
Experience in equipment design
Industrial mindset

Responsibilities

Understand current and prospective customers application and products, value proposition and needs. Align their needs with Corning technical capabilities.
Sales support (technical visit on customer site, product presentation, technical offer, attending trade shows as visitor or exhibitor, writing and contribution to scientific research papers).
FAT/SAT, Installation / education & training / commissioning & starting the reactors & dosing lines.
Support of the customer on paperwork and procedures: Help designing of IQ/OQ plan & development of FAT/SAT.
Support debugging and ramping manufacturing to expected performance. Collect customer feed-back and fix issues.
Connection between the customer requirements and the different internal specialists (Engineering department, R&D, sales, sales support, quality) to ensure a seamless coordination
Share the information gathered from the customer/on-site to the relevant services, including insights for AFR product and offering roadmap.
Contribution to the elaboration of procedure manual for the equipment.
Developing and writing Application notes to support customers.

Benefits

Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives
100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career
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)