Coater Process Engineer

Your Job

Guardian is seeking a Process Engineer specializing in Vacuum Coater Processes. In this role, you will leverage your process expertise to support and advance the company’s environmental, health, safety, and stewardship goals. By ensuring consistent product quality and driving cost-effective manufacturing, you will play a key role in creating competitive advantages that contribute to Guardian’s business success.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design and optimization of coating processes for current and upcoming product projects.
• of the global development team
• 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.
• Seeking opportunities to learn from the market and bring outside perceptions, the best practices and opportunities that will improve Guardian’s process technology capability
• Advance/deepen the underlying knowledge of our products and production processes technologies
• Clearly present and communicate ideas, concepts, and plans across multiple levels thought the region
• Stay up to date with industry trends, learnings and innovations to advance the business strategy

Who You Are (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 team.

What Will Put You Ahead

• 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 Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), X-Rite color measurement, and X-ray Diffraction (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.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

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