About this role
Role Purpose
This role owns organizational change management of the Cables Manufacturing Digital Roadmap. It uses project management discipline to plan, deliver, schedule, and track readiness, training, and adoption for each digital initiative (MES workflows, standardized dashboards, AI agents, and similar). It defines go-live readiness criteria, curates/builds training content, applies a tiered change management approach, and measures whether the tools are used correctly after go-live. The role comes from a manufacturing or engineering background. It translates digital projects into what changes for each role on the manufacturing floor, and it earns credibility with engineers, supervisors, and operators. It partners with the Digital Program Manager, Digital Analyst, Lean/Continuous Improvement organization, plant operations and engineering, and IT/digital product owners. When needed, the role also leads selected digital deployment projects.
Key Responsibilities:
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Project delivery
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Own the adoption and readiness plan for each digital roadmap initiative: scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, and status
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Define go-live readiness criteria, and own cutover readiness, hypercare, and post-go-live adoption follow-through
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Work with IT, digital product owners, plant operations, and engineering to translate technical workflows (MES, ERP, historian, dashboards, AI tools) into role-by-role impacts
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Lead selected digital deployment projects end to end as assigned
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Change management
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Apply and tailor a tiered change management approach (Prosci/ADKAR or equivalent) so effort scales with project size and risk
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Run stakeholder and impact assessments, sponsor engagement, resistance planning, and communications for each initiative
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Build adoption metrics (usage, behavior, completion, sustainment) with baselines, and report them
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Training and enablement (10% of role)
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Curate and develop training content for engineers, supervisors, and operators: job aids, quick reference guides, e-learning, and instructor-led and virtual sessions
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Run pilots, and set up train-the-trainer with Lean/CI trainers for plant-level delivery
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Curate internal and external digital learning content, and build role-based training paths for the priority plant roles (process engineers, team leaders, quality engineers, and similar)
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (industrial, mechanical, chemical, electrical, manufacturing, or similar) or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and manufacturing/engineering experience
- 5+ years in a manufacturing or industrial environment in an engineering, process, quality, automation, or manufacturing IT/OT role
- Led or delivered at least one technology or digital implementation in a plant setting (MES, ERP, data historian, automation, analytics, or similar)
- Working knowledge of plant digital systems sufficient to build training content and engage credibly with engineers and technical leadership
- Owned the training, readiness, or change workstream on a technology implementation
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver training for technical audiences, including operators
- Working knowledge of change management; Prosci/ADKAR or equivalent.
- Ability to influence without authority across plants and functions
Preferred:
- PMP, Agile, or equivalent PM credential
- Prosci/ADKAR or equivalent certification
- Lean/CI or Six Sigma experience
- Familiarity with AI and digital tools in manufacturing (agents, copilots, dashboarding)
- Experience with a learning management system
This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
The range for this position is $98,588.00 - $135,559.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.
A job that shapes a life.
Corning offers you the total package.
Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.
- Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.
- As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning’s total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service.
- Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family.
- Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions.
Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.
- Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.
- As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, Corning provides company matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan of up to 4% of pay when you contribute at least 6% of pay.
- Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family.
We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexua