Principal Metallurgist — Lead Metallurgy & Process

Precision Castparts; North Grafton (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Castparts in North Grafton, MA seeks a senior metallurgist/engineering leader to guide the metallurgical department, define capabilities, and ensure customer specs are met through cost-effective processing and testing.

You will manage a team of metallurgists and technicians, coordinate with operations, planning, OSC, and customers, participate in visits and audits, and provide technical leadership to advance product quality and process capability.

Qualifications

• B.S. in metallurgy/material engineering and 10 years relevant experience in metal melting, fabrication, or forging processes.
• Knowledge of steels, titanium, and/or nickel-based alloys preferred.
• Managerial expertise with metallurgists and technicians.
• Knowledge of manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Defining and explaining engineering capabilities.
• Ensuring that the product is capable of meeting the customer requirements.
• Ensuring that the customer approval and fixed practice requirements are followed.
• Ensuring that the processes are optimized for cost and operational efficiency.
• Planning DOE’s and MPE’s to improve process capability.
• Working with the Operations and Planning group to facilitate material movement through the department.
• Working with the OSC to develop subcontractor approvals and agree process routes.
• Define product process capability and ensure that contract review process results in acknowledgement of orders that have proven capability, or that appropriate exceptions or risks are communicated.
• Review non-standard orders and poor process capability orders.
• Review basis specifications and consult with tech edit on capabilities versus requirements.
• Define test requirements.
• Maintain FTP databases and address causes of non-conformance.
• Manage customer relationships
• Comment and negotiate on specification technical requirements.
• Provide resolution to customer technical questions/problems
• Answer customer complaints of a technical nature.
• Manage customer process qualifications, approvals and metallurgical offers.
• Develop strong relationships with counterparts at customers and end users.
• Participate in customer visits and audits and appropriately address resultant actions.
• Provide technical leadership within the department: supervise, train and develop product metallurgists, Educate production personnel in metallurgical and quality assurance requirements.
• Liaise with research group, sales and applications development team(s) on new product/process development.
• Facilitate communication and achievement of company and plant goals and objectives

Skills

Technical background

Leadership

Communication

Quality assurance

Teamwork

Education

B.S. in metallurgy/material engineering

Job description

Precision Castparts in North Grafton, MA seeks a senior metallurgist/engineering leader to guide the metallurgical department, define capabilities, and ensure customer specs are met through cost-effective processing and testing.

You will manage a team of metallurgists and technicians, coordinate with operations, planning, OSC, and customers, participate in visits and audits, and provide technical leadership to advance product quality and process capability.