Quality Manager and Metallurgist

Aalberts Ht; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aalberts HT is seeking a Quality Manager and Metallurgist to lead the Quality department and own the plant's quality systems. You will direct Lab Techs and Quality Engineers, drive continuous improvement, and ensure conformance to ISO, NADCAP and IATF standards.

You will oversee heat treatment and coating processes for steel and aluminum parts, applying metallurgy principles to optimize quality and process parameters while ensuring regulatory ITAR compliance.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in Metallurgy or related field.
• Minimum five years of manufacturing experience.
• Extensive knowledge of heat treating principles and microstructural analysis.
• Experience with SPC quality control techniques.
• US citizen or green card required due to ITAR.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality department including Lab Techs and Quality Engineers.
• Implement and control manufacturing quality systems; analyze and minimize rejections.
• Assist in developing heat treatment and phosphate coating processes for steel/aluminum.
• Apply deformation, thermodynamics and diffusion principles to material selection.
• Be the auditee for ISO, NADCAP and IATF audits.

Skills

Automotive quality standards (ISO 9001

IATF16949 / CQI-9 / CQI-12

Quality management leadership

Process control & SPC

MS Office & AS400 familiarity

Education

Degree in Metallurgy or related field

Tools

AS400

MS Office

Job description

Description

The Quality Manager and Metallurgist is responsible for implementing and controlling all manufacturing quality systems to include employee training, analyzing, controlling and minimizing rejections, handling and following up on customer complaints, continuous improvement, and specifying processing parameters. Lead Quality department including Lab Techs and Quality Engineers. Assists in developing and analyzing high volume heat treatment and phosphate coating processes for the treatment of steel and aluminum bar, castings and forgings, which entails applying the principles of deformation processes, thermodynamics of materials, kinetics and diffusion and material selection. Be the auditee for the plant in ISO, NADCAP and IATF audits.

Requirements

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS / ABILITIES

• Good knowledge of the automotive industry and systems such as IS09001/IATF16949 and CQI-9, CQI-12, NADCAP.
• Ability to plan, determine, formulate, establish and manage complete quality assurance systems.
• Must maintain high quality standards, have a pleasant disposition and use tact in dealing with employees and customers.
• Must be able to supervise, communicate, use computer related quality programs and have good writing skills.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point) and AS400 preferred.
• Must be able to us higher mathematics involving engineering principles

QUALIFICATIONS

• Requires a degree in Metallurgy or related field
• A minimum of five years of manufacturing experience or equivalent
• Extensive knowledge of heat treating principles including time, temperature, transformation relations, different Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) steels, hardness and microstructural analysis and quality control using SPC (Statistical Process Control) techniques.

This Aalberts facility is ITAR, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, certified. This means all employees are required to be US citizens or green card holders. Here is a link about ITAR and the requirements if you wish to learn more: https://securiti.ai/blog/itar-requirements-for-employee/