Recycling & Casting Project Leader

Constellium Deutschland GmbH; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Constellium Deutschland GmbH in the Baltimore area is seeking a Recycling & Casting Project Leader to drive process development, implement best practices in furnaces and combustion, and provide technical support for recycling and melting technology deployment.

You will lead benchmarking, define resources, guide process improvements, and help achieve KPI targets; English proficiency required, French preferred, collaboration across plants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related engineering field.
• Strong leadership and communication capabilities.
• Technical knowledge of aluminium processes, furnaces, and emissions.
• Experience with dross processing and degassing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of best practices and guidelines in their technology field.
• Organize internal and external benchmarking in their technology field.
• Identify and drive process improvements on high-value Constellium projects.
• Define resources and provide guidance on capex for implementations.
• Support energy, refractory networks and casthouse energy roadmap.
• Build process KPIs and benchmarking systems.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

English

French

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Job Summary

The Recycling & Casting Project Leader is to lead the process development and best practice sharing work in his technology field including: identifying and leading implementation of best practices in the Constellium plants linked with furnaces and combustion technology, leading combustion and furnace reliability with plant experts, and provide technical support for improvement process in recycling (scrap cold preparation, scrap immersion,…) and melting technology deployment.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring technology and competitive watch in their technology field.
• Organizing internal and external benchmarking in their technology field.
• Identifying and leading implementation of process improvement on prioritized high-value-at-stake Constellium projects.
• Defining and leading implementation of best practices / guidelines / standard & reference practices.
• Defining internal and external resources needed for implementation.
• Giving guidance on process in his field including needed capex.
• Support refractory alternatives selection, test, and deployment.
• Support Energy and Refractory network.
• Support the deployment and roadmap for casthouse energy.
• Build process KPIs and benchmarking system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering field required.
• Leadership Skills
  • Ensure interfaces and efficient communication with internal and external partners, based on a wide knowledge of the organization.
  • Use good listening skills to truly hear and understand what others are saying.
  • Implement and maintain a sharing culture in his/her scope.
  • Foster teamwork.
• Manage and track process over time, in a consistent and holistic manner to detect and capitalize relevant information.
• Technical skills
  • Good knowledge of Aluminum process and products and expertise level in:
  • Furnace design, gas fire and induction furnace operation, combustion process.
  • Emission control and prevention.
  • Dross processing.
  • Liquid metal degassing and filtration.
• Synthetic analysis and reporting.
• English proficient/French preferred.

Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.