Position is responsible for providing order-to-cash metallurgical leadership and support related to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of processes and products that safely and cost-effectively meet or exceed customer demands for quality, consistency, and on-time performance.

Essential Job Functions:

Ensure personnel and staff compliance with safety policies and rules. Promote a safety culture.

Cultivate effective employee relations based on mutual respect, a team-based culture, and employee engagement in safety, quality, continuous improvement, and all other business activities.

Prioritize workload for the metallurgical staff based on business demands and available resources.

Communicate performance expectations to assigned employees, including safety, quality, and all documentation.

Initiate, develop, and implement plans that will improve existing process and product quality and consistency.

Initiate, develop, and implement manufacturing plans, processes, and procedures related to new products.

Ensure compliance with established quality systems and procedures.

Lead and manage product development initiatives and projects, ensuring timely and effective results that support cost-effective implementation of customer demands.

Develop capabilities regarding SPC, SQC, Lean, etc.

Define and report meaningful metrics related to development and production to ensure timely and efficient communication.

Oversee the Specific Product Design (SPD) process to provide direction and deliver timely and accurate results in line with customer expectations.

Review test results for compliance with product specifications/customer requirements

Determine root cause and ensure implementation of corrective actions through analysis of rejects and non-conformities in order to resolve customer-generated complaints and ensure satisfaction.

Experience:

Minimum four-year degree in Metallurgy or Material Science and Engineering

Minimum 5 years steel manufacturing with 3 years in a leadership role.

The Senior Process Metallurgist will be responsible for ensuring that all Materials Manufacturing processes at the Company produce quality materials. Will curate documentation and control process parameter tolerances for each operation, and clearly translate requirements to process documentation, bills of materials, and routings. Based on data gathered and expertise, the Senior Process Metallurgist will also identify and recommend the most appropriate materials and processing methods for specific applications.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• The Senior Process Metallurgist is responsible for understanding synthesis-structure-property-performance relationships in materials, and what equipment can be used to achieve a particular materials engineering aim.
• Must understand the mechanical workings of, and control systems used in, a variety of thermal and mechanical processing equipment including furnaces, rolling mills, wire drawing machines, etc.
• Optimized existing processes as well as designing new ones. Evaluate processes and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement. Meet with Production Managers to assess existing processes and prioritize improvement projects.
• Work closely with maintenance personnel and external contractors to maximize quality and production.
• The Senior Process Metallurgist must translate materials processing requirements into quality documentation or bills of materials/routings in an ERP system as required.
• Prepare product and process reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.

• Develops operating practices to produce quality steel products meeting or exceeding industry standards and customer requirements.
• Reviews manufacturing practices on an ongoing basis to ensure compliance with established operating practices.
• Assists in the design, execution and reporting of product development and quality improvement trials.
• Interprets data and makes recommendations to Operations management with guidance from supervisor.
• Investigates quality-related production problems and provides cost-effective solutions.
• Implements SPC techniques for quality and productivity enhancements.
• Manages disposition of material which does not meet requirements for intended application.