Your Job
Guardian Glass is seeking a Process Engineer to join our Operations team in Geneva, NY.
In this role, you will help drive safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing performance while owning process outcomes related to quality, yield, and uptime.
This position is ideal for an engineer who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and works effectively across operations, maintenance, quality, and technical teams. While experience in thin films or vacuum coating technology is beneficial, we are primarily seeking a strong process engineer with a manufacturing mindset, analytical capability, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Our Team
You will join a collaborative operations team that partners closely with maintenance, quality, engineering, development, and technical resources to improve process performance. We value ownership, open communication, disciplined problem-solving, and knowledge sharing to help sustain safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
What You Will Do
- Drive improvements in safety, quality, yield, uptime, cost, waste reduction, reliability, and process stability.
- Analyze and optimize process parameters using Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), process capability analysis, and data analysis tools to improve efficiency and maintain product specifications.
- Troubleshoot manufacturing, quality, and equipment issues using structured root cause analysis, failure mode analysis, and sustainable corrective actions.
- Support quality systems, including specifications, measurement procedures, lab readiness, certifications, customer claims, audits, and corrective actions.
- Develop and improve standard operating procedures, training materials, digital tools, dashboards, and decision-support resources.
- Collaborate with operations, maintenance, quality, engineering, development, and technical teams to support process trials, implement manufacturing improvements, and resolve production challenges.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, or a related technical field; equivalent advanced manufacturing experience may be considered.
- Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, technical, or operations-focused environment.
- Experience troubleshooting processes, equipment, production, or quality-related issues and using data to support process improvements.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience with vacuum coating, sputtering, optical thin films, glass manufacturing, coating operations, vacuum systems, or related technologies.
- Experience with Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), root cause analysis, process capability studies, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience supporting quality systems, automation technologies, industrial controls, data visualization tools, or Power BI.
This role is not open to sponsorship.
For this role we anticipate paying $85,000-$105,000 per year.
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Hiring Philosophy
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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.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).
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