Process Metallurgist

• Ensures personal compliance with applicable internal policies and external regulatory standards (safety,
• environmental, health), reporting any issues that are not immediately resolvable through appropriate channels.
• Proactively collaborates with the EHS Manager on any process or equipment modifications or implementations to ensure changes are made with a safety-first approach.
• Participates in the safety observation program and incident and/or accident investigations as requested.
• Follows all environmental health and safety (EHS) policies, practices, protocols, and regulations. Proactively addresses any potential EHS issues and reports any unsafe conditions. Sets a positive example regarding EHS and a safety-first culture.

• Oversee bimetallic casting related activities including product recipes, testing, NDE, and subcontracted processes, with proactive collaboration with Manufacturing Operations management.
• Aligns product and testing priorities within furnace production schedules through appropriate personnel.
• Optimizes and ensures casting material utilization without affecting product/quality integrity.
• Monitors and ensures optimal performance of furnace assets, managing any outside resources and coordinating with Maintenance, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering, and others as applicable.
• Document Control – ensures casting records, charts, furnace maps, and shop orders are complete, correct and signed off.
• Manages all related process specification and training requirements.
• Performs as a business materials and additive manufacturing expert across all manufacturing locations and processes and leads in-process change for abatement and control.
• Ensures best practices and stays abreast of state-of-the-art technology, processes, and equipment to establish and maintain casting as a core competency.

• Leads and manages product development initiatives and projects, ensuring timely and effective results that support cost effective implementation of customer demands, including but not limited to developing new inlay/matrix for barrels.
• Initiates, develops, and implements plans that will improve existing process and product quality and consistency, in line with company objectives.
• Initiates, develops, and implements manufacturing plans, processes and procedures related to new products, in line with company objectives.
• Ensures compliance with established quality systems and procedures.
• Reviews and investigates customer claims and internal CARs and prepares resolution reports on areas of responsibility.
• Develops capabilities regarding SPC, SQC, Lean, etc.
• Develops, builds, and reports on metrics related to process development and production, utilizing computer technology to ensure timely and efficient communication.

• Participates in the Specific Product Design (SPD) process to meet customer expectations.
• Reviews test results for compliance with product specifications/customer requirements.
• Determines root cause and ensures implementation of corrective actions through analysis of rejects and nonconformities, interacting directly with applicable internal and external parties to resolve customer-generated complaints and ensure satisfaction.

• Performs other responsibilities as assigned and/or as needed to support company objectives.
• Meets on-site attendance requirements to effectively build positive relationships and interact with all employees.
• Travel as required to support customer demands, including international travel (approximately 10-20% travel).

• Minimum of 5 years as a manager/leader of process or product metallurgists with heavy emphasis on and direct/hands-on shop-floor product/process development and improvement activities.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated successful management of complex projects encompassing product development, continuous improvement, and/or process development.

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Metallurgy, master’s degree preferred.
• Passion for innovative technology and managing associated activities; strong intellectual curiosity.
• Extensive knowledge of metallic alloys and their constituents and metallurgical phase transformations.
• Desire and ability to develop means/methods for gathering and analyzing data, such as simulation techniques; a high degree of bias toward utilizing data to solve problems and make decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal effectiveness to achieve collaboration.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical people.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration abilities to work with cross-functional teams at all levels to solve problems, create, and implement solutions.
• Strong bias for action to achieve desired outcomes quickly, while mitigating risk through data-based decisions.
• Exceptional project management, organizational, and follow-through skills with the ability to prioritize, manage concurrent projects, meet deadlines and specifications in a results-driven environment.
• Effective critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong mathematical expression/formulation skills.
• Strong material failure analysis skills.
• Practical knowledge of Lean / Six Sigma practices.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, Power BI, Project, PowerPoint) with the ability to learn new information systems and information technology tools.

• Ability to sit and utilize a computer for up to 8 hours per day.
• Ability to stand, walk, and move around an office and industrial environment for up to 8 hours a day, including interacting with plant employees in various work centers and identifying products.
• Ability to lift to 40 pounds on an infrequent basis.
• Ability to hear, speak, read, and understand English effectively to communicate with other employees, agencies, and vendors. Additional language skills may be required dependent upon location served.
• Ability to meet the demands of travel, approximately 10-20%, including driving, flying, moving throughout airports, etc.

• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Paid Vacations
• Paid Holidays

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