Coater Process Engineer
Role Overview
Guardian is seeking a Process Engineer specializing in Vacuum Coater Processes.
The role supports and advances the company's environmental, health, safety, and stewardship goals.
The engineer ensures consistent product quality and drives cost-effective manufacturing to create competitive advantages.
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Role Overview
Guardian is seeking a Process Engineer specializing in Vacuum Coater Processes.
The role supports and advances the company's environmental, health, safety, and stewardship goals.
The engineer ensures consistent product quality and drives cost-effective manufacturing to create competitive advantages.
What You Will Do
- Lead the design and optimization of coating processes for current and upcoming product projects.
- Serve as an integral member of the global development team, contributing to new thin film process technology, product launches, product transfers and process improvement initiatives.
- Lead an operational team in a safe and efficient manner and take ownership of vision advancement, safety, quality, and productivity.
- Provide process engineering support to plant operations, driving improvements in quality, performance, and throughput of vacuum coating systems.
- Seek opportunities to learn from the market and bring outside perceptions, best practices and opportunities that will improve Guardian's process technology capability.
- Advance and deepen the underlying knowledge of products and production process technologies.
- Clearly present and communicate ideas, concepts, and plans across multiple levels throughout the region.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, learnings and innovations to advance the business strategy.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in optical thin film technologies and vacuum coating sputtering process for solar, semiconductor and/or architectural coated glass industries.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to complex technical projects by analyzing challenges, identifying root causes, and implementing effective corrective actions.
- Proven expertise in problem-solving methodologies such as 8D, Six Sigma, and Lean principles, with a track record of driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience leading and motivating high-performing teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in glass production environments, specifically working with coating lines.
- Familiarity with thin film optical materials and expertise in thin film characterization techniques such as AES, XPS, SEM, TEM, X-Rite color measurement, and XRD.
- Experience with thin film optical coating design and analysis software tools, including TFCalc, Optilayer, Essential Macleod, Ellipsometer, or other thin film modeling packages.
- Experience operating and interpreting data from quality control laboratory equipment such as profilometers, HunterLab spectrophotometers, PerkinElmer instruments, and performing chemical and optical coatings durability testing.
About Guardian Glass
Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions.
Guardian produces high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications.
Guardian Glass is a Koch company.
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