Facilitate and direct daily production activities to ensure control and compliance to established process control and operating procedures. Achieve plant requirements for safety, quality, delivery, selects, uptime, throughput and cost
* schedule resources and prioritizes activities to assure efficient production schedule compliance to include product changeovers, upgrades, experiments, new product runs, training and maintenance activities.
* provides daily direction to production and maintenance employees, team leaders, technicians and engineers on established procedures and policies
* communicate and report production and process performance metrics to production teams, plant operations staff and functional leaders. Ensure that production targets and delivery requirements are met on a daily and weekly basis
* engage with plant teams and functional groups responsible for identifying and implementing process improvements & cost reduction projects
* perform performance reviews and develop and reinforce career and talent development plans for salaried/indirect labor and hourly/direct labor employees
* ensure that the production process is operating in compliance to established process control set-points and operating procedures. Enforce process discipline and rigorous change control
* ensure the protection of corning's intellectual property (ip)
* develop, implement and monitor training, qualification, certification and development programs for new and experienced operators, team leaders and engineers
* facilitate and monitor all process/equipment changes and experimental plans involving the production process, including process improvement, new product trial runs, equipment/tooling redesign, raw material, batch and/or component changes
* bachelor of science or bachelor of arts
* frontline supervisory or team leader experience in a plant manufacturing environment, has demonstrated capability to hold people and teams accountable to process control and discipline
* experience with leading teams and projects to meet significant continuous improvement goals, cost reduction or performance improvement initiatives
* experience and understanding of process management systems, process control and discipline techniques.
* trained and experienced in supervisory effectiveness, conflict resolution and effective listening skills.
* training and understanding of cost accounting and managing for profitability
* trained and experienced in fundamentals of safety and health
* experience in a process engineering role, capable to perform in-depth analysis to solve complex problems
* exposure to launching and ramping new products into manufacturing
* green belt certified in performance excellence, lean and dmaic methods