Optical Metrology Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Requisition Number: 74255

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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, automotive, and solar 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 
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

This role requires employees to work onsite at our Canton, NY location.

Scope of Position:

The purpose of this position is to provide measurement engineering support and programming on a variety of measurement equipment used in a glass manufacturing facility.  A few examples of the measurement equipment overseen by this position includes:

• Interferometers
• Fluorescence and Raman measurement systems
• UV-Vis Spectrophotometers
• FTIR measurement systems
• Polarimeters
• Various other measurement systems

Other activities required of this position include:

• Representing Metrology Department in meetings to assist in resolving product specification vs. measurement capabilities issues with sales, product engineering and our customers.
• Lead projects to improve capacity, capability or cost of current measurement equipment or lead projects to install new measurement equipment as needed.
• Write, audit and maintain process documentation as needed, and as scheduled.
• Writing experiment plans and reports.
• Attend Process Engineering and/or Production-related meetings.

Required Education or Experience:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Physics, Optics, Optical Engineering or equivalent discipline
• Minimum 5 yrs experience in an engineering, metrology, or optics position 
• MS Office; particularly Word, Access and Excel; ability to build queries, set up spreadsheets with formulas, etc.
• Experience in C#, Python, .NET, SQL or other programming languages
• Able to methodically think through and solve complex problems
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams, vendors, other Corning facilities, and in a union work environment
• Willingness to interact with others and actively seek out answers
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision (can plan / organize their activities based on objectives)
• *US Citizenship required

  *In order to comply with Corning's government contract requirements at this location, if you receive an offer of employment for this position, you will need to provide documentation of your U.S. citizen status.

Desired Experience:

• Manufacturing experience 

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $95,144.00 - $130,823.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. 

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