Heat Treat Process Engineer — On-Site Hawaii with Relocation

BG Workforce Solutions; Hawaii; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance to Oahu

Housing stipend

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Life insurance

Job summary

BG Workforce Solutions is seeking a Heat Treat Process Engineer to stand up, own, and run heat-treatment operations in an on-site Hawaii facility on Oahu. This hands-on engineering role requires executing approved thermal processes and maintaining the process book, records, and equipment discipline.

You will manage furnace readiness, cycle integrity, and lot traceability, while documenting in a controlled manufacturing environment that supports defense and other highly specified work.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of industrial heat treatment, thermal processing, or equivalent furnace operations experience.
• Hands-on experience programming, operating, and monitoring industrial furnaces.
• Working knowledge of thermocouples, furnace controls, atmosphere or vacuum systems, and quenching methods.
• Ability to interpret material specifications, travelers, work instructions, and technical documentation.
• Demonstrated understanding of material identification, lot control, and traceability.
• Ability to perform or support basic material characterization such as hardness or conductivity testing.
• Strong documentation habits; complete, legible, same-shift records.
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment and process issues on the shop floor.
• U.S. person as defined for export-controlled work; able to satisfy applicable DoD background requirements and obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance if required.

Responsibilities

• Receive and verify incoming material: alloy, starting condition, heat/lot identification, quantity, and required processing.
• Select the applicable approved heat-treatment cycle from the controlled process library. Do not improvise parameters.
• Prepare, load, instrument, program, run, and monitor industrial furnaces and associated quench and atmosphere or vacuum systems.
• Set up and maintain process accessories, including load and control thermocouples, atmosphere or vacuum controls, quench equipment, and related instrumentation.
• Perform in-process and post-process verification, including hardness, conductivity, and other applicable checks.
• Complete travelers, furnace charts, load records, and equipment logs the same shift the work is performed.
• Write and revise work instructions, standard load practices, and operator training material.
• Support process qualification and first-article thermal processing for new part numbers.
• Work with quality and engineering to disposition process discrepancies and nonconforming heat-treat results (NCR / MRB support).
• Identify and implement improvements to reliability, safety, efficiency, and repeatability through controlled process change.
• Maintain a safe, organized, and compliant work area around furnaces, quench systems, and material handling equipment.

Skills

Industrial heat treatment

Furnace operation

Process programming

Documentation

Education

Technical degree or certification in manufacturing

Tools

Thermocouples

Furnace controls

Quench systems

Job description

BG Workforce Solutions is seeking a Heat Treat Process Engineer to stand up, own, and run heat-treatment operations in an on-site Hawaii facility on Oahu. This hands-on engineering role requires executing approved thermal processes and maintaining the process book, records, and equipment discipline.

You will manage furnace readiness, cycle integrity, and lot traceability, while documenting in a controlled manufacturing environment that supports defense and other highly specified work.