NPI Engineer

at  Corning

Date: Aug 16, 2024
Location: Reynosa, TAM, MX, 88730
Company: Corning
Requisition Number: 64442
Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.
We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.
Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers.

Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with:

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation

KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics, Optical Physics or related field, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum of 2 years total of technology, development, and/or manufacturing engineering experience

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Knowledgeable in fiber optic cabling and connectivity
• Experience working in a high volume, manual, precision manufacturing environment
• Strong project management skills.
• Good problem solving and analytical capabilities (particularly statistical analysis).
• Excellent communication and leadership-through-influence skills.
• High initiative, able to work with a minimum of direction, and able to work in team environment
• Minimum 80% bilingual English / Spanish

ROLE PURPOSE

This position is within Americas’ Regional Engineering and will be part of the development of new products and processes with an emphasis on speed of innovation into manufacturing through effective Change Management, Design for Manufacturing, Cost Modeling, and alignment to our global Product Quality Architecture. This position focuses on leading the industrialization of products developed through our IPP projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working with project team members, develop and / or improve processes using DMAIC and sound statistical methods to ensure process performance meets the level required to meet cost, capacity, and service level requirements for new products.
• Lead the cost performance effort in projects, owning the cost model and ensuring product cost targets are met at product launch.
• Author process improvement capability plans. Complete technical reports for internal publication.
• Lead and/or actively participate in creation of requirements and agreements for product availability by using LA and GA criteria document.
• Lead and organize process and product workshops to drive DFM Analysis in NPIs documenting and implementing improvement ideas during the NPI project lifecycle.
• Working with the project team and process engineering team, ensure Product Quality Architecture requirements are met before project closure.
• Identify gaps in manufacturing capabilities and make recommendations to improve. Support those improvements. Included in this are programs in TPM and LEAN implementation. Identify and act on best practices globally.