| Location | Hemlock, MI |
Requisition Number: 76660
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Our Solar business delivers industry leading, U.S.-made solar components. We manufacture hyper-pure polysilicon, high-quality solar wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, leveraging our leadership in advanced manufacturing to serve growing energy demand. You will be a part of advancing critical U.S. supply chains and delivering unmatched quality and reliability to customers.
Role Purpose
As a Process Engineer II in Corning's solar wafer manufacturing facility, you will be responsible for supporting and optimizing manufacturing processes to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production. You will partner with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot process issues, lead continuous improvement efforts, and implement process and technology enhancements that improve yield, throughput, quality, and cost performance.
Key Responsibilities
The engineer will contribute to line, department and plant performance. Process involvement will include production and development activities.
The engineer will take the initiative to improve procedures and setups through documented change control.
The engineer will proactively identify where gaps in work instructions and process setups exist and will work to close the gaps. Improvements will be implemented with the expectation that standard operating procedures and setups are created and followed.
Problem solving will be routine and is expected to be performed methodically. Assistance to other engineers with problem solving is expected.
The engineer will be expected to document process understanding. This will include daily process learning, development planning, and development reviews.
The engineer will have discretion on when to elevate issues to a higher level.
Work will be assigned in terms of objectives and general guidelines.
The engineer's work will be reviewed for soundness of technical judgment and for consistency with established procedures. Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions may result in the reallocation of resources.
Key Responsibilities (continued)
The engineer is expected to perform daily engineering oversight and support of production
The engineer is the point of contact for daily activities, problem resolution and process improvement. At times the coordination of upstream or downstream activities will be required.
Daily interaction with the operators and production leadership is the norm to understand issues and to communicate plans and instructions. Sound communication is key to success in the role.
Training of production personnel is routine and common in this position.
Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations in all manufacturing processes. Identify and mitigate potential safety hazards and risks.
Work Hours
Standard hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Support a 24/7 manufacturing operation, requiring occasional availability outside standard business hours to address production, process, and operational needs.
Education and Experience
Required Skills
Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, interpret, and analyze data to identify trends, reduce process variation, and drive root cause identification.
Proven problem-solving capability, including facilitating cross-functional teams, prioritizing actions, delegating responsibilities, and driving solutions to completion.
Results-oriented with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, balance competing demands, and effectively support a variety of internal stakeholders.
Strong understanding of process control, operational discipline, and standard operating procedures (SOPs), including the judgment to recognize when escalation, deviation review, or additional stakeholder involvement is required.
Ability to