Hands-On Foundry Engineering Manager: Boost Cast Quality

J&T Business Consulting; Spokane (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

J&T Business Consulting in Spokane, WA seeks a Foundry Engineering Manager to serve as the foundry’s primary technical problem solver. This hands-on role focuses on reducing scrap, improving casting quality, and increasing throughput across molding, melting, and finishing. It leads the pattern shop and provides technical recommendations to leadership.

This is a technical role centered on root-cause problem solving and process improvement, not a quality-systems or QMS administration position.

Qualifications

• BS in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• Minimum 5 years of foundry engineering experience, with hands-on experience in white iron and/or steel casting.
• Demonstrated experience with pattern and method design, including gating, risering, and solidification.
• Strong, metrics-driven root-cause problem-solving skills, including casting defect analysis and scrap reduction.
• Lean Manufacturing knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the foundry’s primary technical problem solver, using metallurgical analysis to drive throughput and quality across molding, melting, and finishing.
• Reviews scrap and rework reports to identify root cause and drive measurable scrap reduction.
• Works with the molding and melting managers to improve casting quality and reduce downstream finishing; coaches teams on practices that improve as-cast quality.
• Drives pattern and method design to improve yield and reduce finishing requirements.
• Identifies critical control points in the foundry process and implements corrective action.
• Reduces consumption of foundry consumables without compromising casting quality.
• Manages the foundry engineering staff.
• Applies statistical methods and engineering calculations to analyze processes and defects and to establish process standards.
• Provides technical support to departments inside and outside the foundry.
• Supports new product development translating customer requirements into producible casting and method designs.
• Recommends improvements to foundry equipment and facilities.

Skills

Foundry metallurgy

Root-cause analysis

Lean manufacturing

Pattern/method design

Casting quality

Education

BS in Metallurgical Engineering / Materials Science / Mechanical Engineering

Job description

J&T Business Consulting in Spokane, WA seeks a Foundry Engineering Manager to serve as the foundry’s primary technical problem solver. This hands-on role focuses on reducing scrap, improving casting quality, and increasing throughput across molding, melting, and finishing. It leads the pattern shop and provides technical recommendations to leadership.

This is a technical role centered on root-cause problem solving and process improvement, not a quality-systems or QMS administration position.