Job Information
Corning Quality Assurance Section Supervisor in Hemlock, Michigan
*Date: *Jan 16, 2025
Location:
Hemlock, MI, US, 48626
*Company: *Corning
Requisition Number: 65891
Corning is vital to progress -- in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.
We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.
Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we're always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers.
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, and automotive 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
*Purpose of the Position: *Provide direction and leadership to the puling department. Supervise the team leaders that manage the operations teams. Define and implement improvements within operations, including lean, operational excellence, increased technical skills, safety projects and performance gains. To lead and/or support project teams to develop new manufacturing technology to reduce costs, increase capacity and/or improve product.
Key Responsibilities
Work to achieve cost, quality, health, and safety objectives.
Execute the plant objectives at the tactical level focused on continuous improvement.
Schedule resources and prioritizes activities to assure efficient production schedule compliance to include product job changes, upgrades, experiments, new product development, training, and maintenance activities.
Provide daily direction to employees and team leaders using established guidelines, procedures, and policies.
Communicate and report operations performance metrics to production teams, plant operations staff and functional leaders. Ensure production targets and delivery requirements are met daily, weekly, and monthly.
Perform performance reviews and talent development plans for salaried/indirect labor and hourly/direct labor employees.
Provide coaching to team members to assist with their professional development, particularly technical development through fundamental understanding (PEx, MEE, and scientific method)
Ensure that the production process is operating in compliance with established process control set points and operating procedures.
Develop, implement, and monitor training, qualification, certification and development programs for new and experienced operators and shift supervisors.
Build effective relations with plant support groups.
Ensure team executes documented operating procedures and follows established document control protocols.
Hold operators accountable for adherence to established procedures and setpoints for process control; ensures awareness and compliance to changes.
Receive and integrate new technologies to improve process c