Process Engineer

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 B...