Date: Aug 12, 2025
Location: Shenzhen, GD, CN, 518048
Company: Corning
Requisition Number: 70074
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Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.
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At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.
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The Global Supply Management (GSM) Function is recognized as a critical function for business success. It delivers the training, tools and opportunities needed to create innovative solutions for the function & the corporation. GSM has leading edge, effective processes to anticipate and exceed customer requirements.
Day to Day Responsibilities
- Drive product quality through product data ownership and product qualification activities.
- Maintain and repair/renew our assets including molds and equipment, to be sure our assets are well managed. Check and cycle count our assets list per timely manner.
- Ensure strong utilization of engineering change controls and effectively manage and minimize end of life (EOL) issues.
- Check and update BOM in system on time, liaise with planner/buyer for ensuring the released purchase orders have BOM and spec for production.
- Maintain and extend our EMs’ capability, focusing on cable assembly process, includes more connector and cable type.
- Provide right product drawings, spec and raw materials for GSM on time to outsource the product when needed.
- Bridge EM and PE when our EMs have questions on the product drawings, spec, manufacturing process and help to clarify the questions.
- Drive the qualification and provide the qualification result to PE for review per business plan.
- Participate in business strategy build up and ensure our strategy and objectives aligned with overall business plan.
- Ensure our strategy implemented at our EMs without any deviation, understand our EMs’ needs and support our EMs to execute our strategy and objectives.
- Collaborate and prioritize our resource on new business and product opportunities drive by market requirements.
- Focusing on engineering cost reduction initiatives and follow up, deliver cost reduction and support other functions for cost reduction.
- Support quality team to drive root cause analysis, evaluate the corrective actions from EMs, provide support to EM for CAPA process.
- Drive continuous improvement for packaging, product yield, material replacement and automation implementation, EOL control, etc.
- Drive continuous improvement on engineering related EM scorecard, provide guidance, work with EM to improve the performance.
- Leverage PEx tools to management NPI, deliver results within budget and schedule with team support.
- Support GSM and quality team to evaluate the new EMs and help to improve the capability of existing EM.
- Maintain and the EM capability database, raise qualification request for future opportunities.
- Lead/coordinate the qualification at EM side, deliver the qualification results on time to meet customer demand.
- Weekly NPI status updates
- Engineering based cost reduction projects and status update
- Engineering projects and other projects update
- Team development review
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering is a must.
- At least 5 years’ experience working with a US based MNC in Engineering functions.
- At least 3 years’ experience in External Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing, managing supplier and vendors, OEM, ODM or related supplier management experience.
- Project management experience with hands on experience on how to use project management methodologies to manage multifunctional, multilocation projects.
- Experience in managing manufacturing in high-mix low volume manufacturing.
Required Skills
- Fluent English speaking/writing is a must.
- Experience for engineering data management system, windchill is a plus.
- Experience in MS office productivity tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) etc.
- Flexibility to work across multiply time-zone in multiple languages, flexibility to balance the working time between US calendar and Chinese calendar.
- Ability to travel (up to 20%) to EM sites in East and Central Asia to coordinate manufacturing activities.
- Ability to manage the team remotely
Soft Skills
- Good communication and negotiation skill.
- Good understanding of culture different between different countries.
- Attention to detail, passion for processes improvement, systems, and data handling.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high-energy environment.
- High sense of responsibility and initiatives, self-motivated, and the ability to work with a wide cross-section of people in various locations.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
