Requisition Number: 38523

Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science. For more than 160 years, Corning has applied its unparalleled expertise in specialty glass, ceramics, and optical physics to develop products that have created new industries and transformed people’s lives.

Corning succeeds through sustained investment in R&D, a unique combination of material and process innovation, and close collaboration with customers to solve tough technology challenges.

Corning’s Display Technologies segment manufactures glass substrates for active matrix liquid crystal displays (“LCDs”) that are used primarily in LCD televisions, notebook computers and flat panel desktop monitors.

Major Responsibility: 

• Effectively deploys hiring process for hourly workers and salaried employees. 

• Educates plant leadership on local employment law to ensure compliance with contracts and applicable personnel management laws. 

• Manages and mitigates employee grievances by ensuring supervisors and leadership are creating an open forum for discussion and resolution of plant issues. 

• Coaches and counsels plant management in development and demonstration of leadership and management practices required to establish and maintain a positive work environment. 

• Resolves employee relations issues in a fair and consistent manner that protects the needs of the plant to operate in an effective and efficient manner. 

• Educates plant employees on shared service and third party vendor capabilities to increase use and benefits of these services. 

• Takes ownership for specific HR initiatives that support the effective operations of the organization by developing and/or delivering HR programs (e.g., attendance tracking, training, communications) 

• Tracks and documents employment issues and requests (e.g.,workers compensation) as required for procedural and legislative purposes.  Identifies employee value proposition issues affecting turnover and works with Plant HR Manager to identify actions for improvement.  Establishes and maintains a presence on the plant floor to keep a read on the pulse of the organization. 

• Implements appropriate risk management policies and procedures to ensure plant compliance with safety requirements and local employment laws.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Successful track record of performance in a Plant HR generalist assignment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 - 8 years of HR experience (generalist/specialist) or equivalent

• Work experience (assignment/project participation) in aligning client group leadership around organization direction, design, and governance/decision rights

• Successful track record in the deployment of HR business processes or programs

• Familiarity and some working knowledge of design and implementation of effective organization structures and work processes that improve client group ability to achieve desired results.

• Proficient in verbal and written English language skills

• Proactive, results oriented

• Strong computer and analytical skill

• Manage multiple priorities Required Skills

• HR technical expertise

• Plant experience

• Relationship acumen, collaborative partner

• Critical thinking and problem solving

• Communications skills

• Organizational acumen

• Individual leadership and coaching experience

• Strong computer skills and analytical skill set

• Project management, Process orientation

• HR service orientation, responsiveness

• Balance multiple priorities