Sr. Ceramic Engineer

Corning Incorporated is a diversified technology company with a rich history spanning more than 150 years. Corning concentrates efforts on high impact growth opportunities worldwide. We combine our expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of properties of light with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the flat panel display, telecommunications, environmental and life sciences markets.



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Scope of Position:

- Analyzes, researches and tests materials and their related behavior and application to a production environment

 

Day to Day Responsibilities:

- Define rheology testing to establish baseline rheology at all locations

- Maintain current rheology SOP’s in CPE Metrology lab

- Build library and database of rheology results

- Use rheology tools to troubleshoot production problems, especially shifts in extrusion behavior

- Apply rheology tools to die design issues and developments

- Be the interface and collaborate with the CET Development and Research affiliates to transfer new rheological tests

 

Projects Involved with:

- Develop a rheology database of our ceramic materials and the impact that it has on our forming process

 

Role Within Group:

- Work independently on rheology studies to develop fundamental understandings

- Support department projects that need rheological inputs

- Apply the rheology learnings to improve our process and product

- Work with the manufacturing plants to understand and improve the impact of rheology on the process

 

Travel Requirements:

- Some international travel

- Both domestic and international travel will be approximately

 

Required Skills:

- Rheology Experience

- Background in Ceramics

- Process Engineering basics (Basics of Manufacturing, some statistical training, etc.)

 

Desired Skills:

- Experience in Project Management

- Design of experiments

 

Soft Skills:

- Ability to work in a field that is still relatively new with a very complex material behavior.  This means ability to deal with the ambiguity of initially not knowing how to solve complex and mysterious material based forming problems.

- Technical curiosity – desire to know how do things work.

- Ability to work independently

- Confidence to speak up and share ideas in challenging team oriented problem solving environment

 

Education and Experience:

- B.S. / M.S. Mechanical, Ceramic or Chemical Engineer

 

Benefits Statement:

Corning Incorporated offers a comprehensive benefits package which provides health care coverage and financial security for employees and their families. This package features a pension plan, 401k plan, employee share purchase plan and a health and welfare program, plus many other valuable benefits including dental, vision, employee assistance plan, group legal services, short and long-term disability plans, flexible spending accounts, vacation pay, holiday pay, tuition reimbursement, survivor benefits, work-life benefits and more. Corning also offers medical, dental, vision, employee assistance plan, Group Legal Services and Lifeworks benefits and more to same-sex domestic partners and their eligible dependents.

 

Corning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

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