Quality Engineer

About This Role

This Quality Engineer role focuses on developing, deploying, qualifying, and improving manufacturing quality systems, process controls, and operational disciplines within Advanced Optics. The engineer will translate customer, product, and process requirements into capable, controlled, and sustainable manufacturing processes, working closely with division functions and site departments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with division functions and site departments to translate customer, product, and process requirements into practical manufacturing controls and qualification plans
• Lead PPAP, process qualification, validation, and production-readiness activities for new products, pilot lines, equipment qualifications, technology transfers, capacity expansions, and major process changes
• Develop and maintain process flows, CTQ characteristics, PFMEAs, Control Plans, reaction plans, qualification plans, and readiness evidence
• Lead Measurement System Analysis (MSA), process capability studies, and data analysis to verify that requirements, controls, and validations are effective
• Develop, implement, and improve PCPD elements, including documentation, standard operating setpoints, training, change control, experiment planning, measurement and calibration controls, audits, and process reviews
• Identify qualification and control gaps, align cross-functional ownership, and drive issues to evidence-based closure, ensuring decisions, risks, exceptions, and required follow-up actions are clearly documented and communicated
• Confirm that controls and improvements are sustained and applied consistently across applicable products, processes, lines, and sites

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing quality, process engineering, or a related technical role
• Experience supporting new product introduction, pilot or production-line startup

About the Company

Corning is one of the world's leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science, manufacturing products that provide more than 150 material formulations for glass, glass ceramics and fluoride crystals. The Specialty Materials segment operates in a wide variety of commercial and industrial markets that include display optics and components, semiconductor optics components, aerospace and defense, astronomy, ophthalmic products, telecommunications components and cover glass.