Purpose of the Position:
The purpose of Thermal Equipment Technical Manager is to develop team capabilities to lead the design, construction, improvement, and upgrade of Corning thermal equipment and associated thermal process services across Asia. The core capabilities involve,
- Thermal equipment application & integration
- Thermal equipment design
- Thermal Process service design
- Field leadership and support
- Energy efficiency
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Responsible for strategy planning of thermal equipment engineering, including mechanical design, prototyping, installation, acceptance, and start-up for thermal/fluid equipment across Corning Businesses
- Provide leadership for new process or product development - focus on glass melting and forming.
- Establish requirements with customer(s). Understand voice of customer(s) and nature of the business requirements for each project.
- Establish equipment plans (scope, schedule, cost estimates, acceptance criteria, risk management, and handover criteria).
- Define and develop the design capability of this team to support the success of the businesses.
- Promote team capabilities to Corning businesses and maintain the team with state-of-the-art technologies.
- Team members project assignment and workload distribution
- To grow technical competencies and expertise in equipment engineering supported for manufacturing with fundamental understanding.
- Possesses good communication, harmony and project management skills for dynamic and fast-paced environment across businesses/organization in timely manner.
- Develop new core technology to support Corning success.
- Establish roles, responsibilities and competencies required for the project.
- Actively coach and develop individuals.
- Share expertise and knowledge to foster continuous improvement of the organization.
- Initiate recognition and performance improvement plan
- Team talent development and performance review
- Provide team period report and host communication meetings.
- Provide technical proposal/PI sheet to request funding.
- Live in Corning values, integrate cultures, nurture strategic thinking and ability to influence.
- Execute assignments from supervisors.
Education & Experience
- Possess BS/MS/PHD degree, and major in mechanical, aerospace engineering or related fields with backgrounds in equipment engineering applied for machine design, equipment/system integration and energy saving.
- Professional Engineering registration is a plus
Required Skills:
- 20+ years experience in equipment design with solid backgrounds in fluid-dynamics, heat transfers, and thermal dynamics under engineering/industrial levels
- Excellent computer and 2D/3D CAD skills (good command of MS Office, AutoCAD and Solid Works)
- Familiar with thermal equipment design and fabrication such as furnace, kiln oven etc.
- Understand the piping and duct system design. Knowledge of combustion system design is plus.
- Effective listening, oral, and written communication skills in English and a major Asian language
- Proactive, creative, and positive as a team player to achieve project objectives with high quality.
- Knowledge in material selections for thermal equipment in variable process implementations
Desired Skills:
- Multiple year experience in people development and strategic planning
- Rich experience in mechanical design and integration.
- Experience in thermal equipment engineering (e.g. heat treatment, heat exchange, forming, and mixing technology etc.).
- Familiar with methods of thermal/flow tests and results analysis
- Skills in flow/thermal modeling & simulation is a plus.
- Effective working in a technical team environment
- Quality Results Oriented
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
