Welding/ Materials Engineer- Welding Laboratory

3 weeks ago

Groton, United States Electric Boat Company Full time

Overview

This position is in the Electric Boat Welding Engineering Laboratory and scales to accommodate a wide range of experience levels (entry to career experience). This position involves investigating and solving a complex variety of metallurgical welding issues related to welding process, procedures, and engineering of welding controls, techniques, and welding consumables to ensure consistent weld quality, mechanical properties, and freedom from metallurgical issues. The position involves interaction with a number of other organizations within Electric Boat, suppliers of equipment and welding consumables, and the Navy.

This position has the following specific functions
  • Develop and qualify structural and pipe welding procedures
  • Responsible for the quality and operability of welding procedures with respect to weld metal mechanical properties, weld quality, equipment reliability, and clarity of welder/operator instructions
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on welding processes and techniques, welding procedure qualification, welding equipment, and ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgical issues related to welding and welding consumables
  • Perform and support investigations to evaluate and adjudicate metallurgical, weld quality and workmanship issues as well as interpretations, deviations, or non-conformances to welding procedures, qualification requirements, specifications, and general work practice requirements
  • Serve as project or technical lead on in-house and externally funded projects with respect to performance, process improvement or cost reduction efforts
  • Develop and conduct test programs to evaluate and/or characterize production conditions, technical requirements and current shipyard materials, processes and welding consumables
  • Prepare technical reports as a result of testing, and investigations
  • Conduct quality assurance testing, root cause investigations, and engineering evaluations to support production welding consumables and adjudication of deviations and non-conformances to technical requirements
  • Responsible for the quality, operability, and suitability of procured welding consumables to operate successfully in the shipyard with consistent weld metal mechanical properties and avoidance of metallurgical or weld quality concerns
  • Conduct welding consumable manufacturer audits along with Supplier Quality, as necessary
  • Support production and design efforts through fabrication of production and design mockups to ensure shipyard viability and service performance with respect to mechanical properties and weld quality
  • Evaluate and/or develop existing and new welding equipment, welding methods, techniques, and procedures

Typical work week - Approximately 30% laboratory observation/evaluation (working alongside developmental welders), 70% analysis, test plan/report writing, solution development and problem adjudication.

Qualifications

Required
  • Bachelor of Science or higher in Engineering
  • The ability to understand basic principles of welding and destructive and non-destructive testing
  • Must be capable of reading and interpreting specifications, procedures, drawings and other documents
  • Internal candidates must be from an organization outside of Operations (Casciano/Gabriel)
Preferred
  • Bachelor of Science or higher in Metallurgy/Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Engineering (focus on metals as opposed to non-metallics), Welding Engineering or equivalent engineering field
  • Experience in an industrial environment, shipbuilding, or other heavy fabrication
  • Welding Procedure Qualification development and review experience
  • Mechanical aptitude and hands-on laboratory experience
  • Familiarity or experience with basic arc welding processes
  • The ability to analyze problems and to develop and implement solutions
  • Experience in the support of structural or piping welding applications
  • Welder training or experience in the field of welding
  • Project management experience
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite
  • Basic familiarity with the data analysis and the application of statistics and regression
  • Familiarity with Military and Commercial Specifications with regards to Welding and Brazing Procedure
  • Qualification and Fabrication of pipe and structure, Tech Pub 248, Tech Pub 1688, Tech Pub 278, AWS, and ASM

Skills

  • Team player, comfortable working and communicating with all levels
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
  • Ability to write test plans, technical reports and other correspondence

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