Principal Materials Engineer

• Provide technical leadership, direction, guidance and engineering expertise to colleagues and other cross-functional teams.
• Provide independent recommendations for material selection and manufacturing processes.
• Research new material systems and manufacturing technologies.
• Perform general material and metallurgical analysis including cutting, mounting, polishing, and evaluating microstructure.
• Independently track projects to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee process.
• Schedule, develop agendas for, facilitate and document technical meetings and formal presentations.
• Occasionally provide support to production facilities for engineering builds, product launches, mass production, and continuous improvement activities.
• Occasionally travel to suppliers, development partners, production facilities, and conferences.
• Establish metallurgical analysis techniques and procedures to evaluate and optimize products and processes.
• Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis.
• Ability to present experimental data, analysis, conclusions and recommendations in a group setting to a variety of company levels and educational disciplines.

• Effectively identify and communicate issues to upper management in a clear, concise and timely manner while driving action based on urgency.
• Provide expertise and engineering support on high-level complexity projects.
• Identify engineering trends and drive strategies to guide the organization’s technical direction.
• Occasionally operate pilot facility equipment including heat treat furnaces, stamping presses, welding equipment, lasers, etc.
• Create new development tests to aid in design verification and failure modes.
• Perform root cause failure analysis of test failures.
• Self-motivation to lead material/process investigations to solve and/or prevent quality issues.

• Mentor and train junior engineers in their design and failure analysis.

• Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy, Metallurgical Engineering, or Materials Science at a minimum. Master’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in related Materials field.
• Experience with various materials and their applications-emphasis on metals and metallurgy.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a hands-on attitude.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, especially Excel and Power Point.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time is required.

• Good understanding of metal stamping, steel machining, and injection molded processes. Knowledge of coating technologies.
• Experience with advanced analysis techniques such as SEM and EDS.
• Proficient in use of DOE.
• Experience researching and evaluating materials for additive manufacturing.
• Proficient in CAD and FEA solvers is preferred.

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