Senior Metallurgist

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Senior Metallurgist Summary:

This job is a career progression step from a Product Metallurgist or an entry position for candidates with significant and relevant metals processing experience.

Principal Responsibilities:

1. Ensuring that product has been produced in accordance with the defined metallurgical processes, including:

• Ensuring that the product meets the customer requirements.
• Ensuring that the customer approval and fixed practice requirements have been followed.
• Arranging for re-testing, rework, and deviation of non-conforming product.
• Working with the Operations and Planning group to facilitate material movement through the department.
• Assisting the Chief Metallurgist with the introduction of new products or processes into standard production and writing detailed technical reports.

2. Compile data to help define product process capability and liaise with tech edit to ensure that the contract review process results in acknowledgement of orders that have proven capability.

• Review non-standard orders and consult with Chief Metallurgist on poor process capability orders.
• Review basis specifications and consult with tech edit on capabilities versus requirements.
• Define test requirements.
• Maintain FTP databases and highlight most frequent causes of non-conformance.
• Develop corrective actions or improvement projects aimed at non-conformance reduction.

3. Manage the customer relationships

• Review specification technical requirements.
• Assist Chief Metallurgist with resolution of customer technical questions/problems
• Investigate and respond to customer complaints of a technical nature.
• Handle customer process qualifications, approvals, and metallurgical offers.
• Develop working relationships with counterparts at customers and end users.
• Assist with customer visits and audits and prepare responses to resultant actions.

4. Provide technical guidance within the department:

• Communicate with production personnel on metallurgical and quality assurance requirements.
• Provide guidance and training to the department Product Metallurgist.
• Liaise with peers in research, sales, and applications development team(s) on new product/process development.
• Provide technical contribution to achievement of company and plant goals and objectives.

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Working knowledge of titanium metallurgy, and metal working operations

Working knowledge of aerospace and industrial material and quality specifications

Awareness of laboratory and nondestructive testing methods

Ability to apply basic statistical techniques and analysis tools (e.g. Minitab)

Competencies:

Basic interpersonal skills, negotiation and influential ability, sound personal integrity

Strong verbal and writing skills, particularly technical reports.

Analytical and creative thinking

Participative in team building across functional boundaries

Courteous and professional in dealing with difficult problems or opportunities.

Ability to deal with customers on complex issues without aid or supervision of the Chief Metallurgist.

Education/Experience Requirements:

Four-year Bachelors degree (required) in a metals or materials discipline (preferred).

Three to four years' experience as a Product metallurgist or other metals processing industry with titanium processing experience preferred.