Requisition Number: 39926

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 Environmental Technologies segment manufactures ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile and stationary applications around the world.

Day to Day Responsibilities: (must to fill)
•    Identifies areas of potential manufacturing related productivity, capacity, and/or quality improvements, performs cost studies and justification analysis;
•    Leads and implements improvements initiatives using Lean Manufacturing techniques to improve productivity, capacity, and/or quality when necessary;
•    Ownership of plant wide Kaizen system: Maintain and track Kaizen system, facilitate and/or train for Kaizen events;
•    Works with Lean team to proliferate usage of lean tools throughout the plant at all levels;
•    Sets up and maintains plant wide productivity database;
•    Key team member of OEE project;
•    Communicates ideas and status clearly and professionally through graphic and written media, and oral presentations. Provides necessary documentation of activities and results.

Requirements: Education & Experience (please state MUST and PLUS requirements)
Bachelor degree or above in Engineering – preference for Industrial Engineering;

Requirements: Required Skills                                                
•    Working knowledge of: Lean/Simplification, cycle time reduction, cost analysis, Value Stream Mapping, line Balance/staffing, work cell design.
•    Experience implementing Lean in a manufacturing environment including use of approaches such as (but not limited to); 
a.    Kaizen Events & DMAIC process 
b.    Value stream mapping 
c.    Pull systems and kanban 
d.    Standardized work 
e.    Set up time reduction analysis 
•    Excellent computer skills (working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft 
•    Word, etc.)

Requirements: Desired Skills  
•    5+ Years in manufacturing 
•    Knowledge of (Lean) organizational design
•    Auto CAD Computer Design tools.
 

    
Employee Referral Level: 1