Technical Director/Metallurgist:
Primary Objective
Position is responsible for providing order-to-cash metallurgical leadership and support related to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of processes and products that safely and cost-effectively meet or exceed customer demands for quality, consistency, and on-time performance.
Position Reports To
Director of Process Metallurgy
Essential Job Functions
- Ensure personal and staff compliance with safety policies and rules. Promote a safety culture.
- Cultivate effective employee relations based on mutual respect, a team-based culture, and employee engagement in safety, quality, continuous improvement, and all other business activities.
- Prioritize workload for the metallurgical staff based on business demands and available resources.
- Communicate performance expectations to assigned employees, including safety, quality, and all documentation.
- Initiate, develop, and implement plans that will improve existing process and product quality and consistency.
- Initiate, develop, and implement manufacturing plans, processes, and procedures related to new products.
- Measure and improve First Time Through (FTT) quality by unit.
- Ensure compliance with established quality systems and procedures.
- Review and investigate customer claims and internal CARs and prepare resolution reports.
- Lead and manage product development initiatives and projects, ensuring timely and effective results that support cost-effective implementation of customer demands.
- Develop capabilities regarding SPC, SQC, Lean, etc.
- Define and report meaningful metrics related to development and production to ensure timely and efficient communication.
- Oversee the Specific Product Design (SPD) process to provide direction and deliver timely and accurate results in line with customer expectations.
- Oversee contract review and material application to customer orders.
- Provide support relative to OEM qualification activities.
- Review test results for compliance with product specifications/customer requirements
- Determine root cause and ensure implementation of corrective actions through analysis of rejects and non-conformities in order to resolve customer-generated complaints and ensure satisfaction.
- Other tasks or duties as assigned.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills High interpersonal effectiveness to achieve inter- and intra-plant collaboration
- Strong team and project management skills
- Statistical process control and analysis
- Effective problem solving
- Results-focused and continuous improvement mentality
- High-function computer literacy
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally on a periodic basis to customers, vendors, or other locations.
- Ability to manage and lead change
Experience
- Minimum four-year degree in Metallurgy or Material Science and Engineering
- Minimum 5 years process manufacturing, preferably in an AS9100/Nadcap certified mill environment, with 3 years in a leadership role
- Stainless, low alloy, bearing steels and high-temperature materials knowledge
- Specialty steel processing: AOD, VIM, ESR, VAR, hot working, heat treating, metal machining, and /or finishing experience non-destructive and destructive testing.
- Demonstrated results leading project teams.
Characteristics
- Team-based leader
- Self-starter
- Self-disciplined
- Meets commitments
- Proactive
Physical Requirements
- Speaking, hearing, near and far eyesight
- Ability to safely move around and work in both an industrial plant and office environment
Security Level
- US citizen or US person meeting ITAR requirements
- Sponsorship of VISA will be considered for strong candidates
Pay Details: $120,000.00 per year
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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