The Senior Research Metallurgist provides technical expertise in broad areas of materials and processes in support of all areas of the company.  He/she initiates and conducts new material, process, and product development; works directly with customers and potential customers to resolve technical problems; and assumes leadership of R&D during the absence of the R&D Manager.

Essential Functions

• Become a technical expert and thought leader
  • Initiate and conduct new product development, especially in the areas of new alloy formulation, materials processing, and innovative use of all company’s expertise and capabilities
  • Maintain working knowledge of technological developments in both new and existing markets, and keep upper management aware of potential impact of these changes
  • Support new product development activities of others within the company
• Provide support within our company and to our customers
  • Provide metallurgical support to resolve day-to-day manufacturing problems with particular emphasis on deformation processing of materials
  • Provide technical support and training to the Sales and Marketing departments
  • Work directly with current and prospective customers to select appropriate products, or develop novel solutions if needed

Additional Responsibilities

• Form relationships with customer, industry, and academic thought leaders
• Produce high-quality, high-impact technical communications
  • Prepare well written, professional reports, whitepapers, and publication-quality manuscripts
  • Document new test methods to support improved product quality/ reliability
  • Produce detailed failure analyses for the Company, current, and prospective customers
• Track and report on the status of developmental and support projects
• Perform critical economic analysis of the value of new technologies and equipment
• Benchmark competitive products and technologies
• Supervise activities of member(s) of the R&D Technician Team

The Senior Research Metallurgist provides technical expertise in broad areas of materials and processes in support of all areas of the company.  He/she initiates and conducts new material, process, and product development; works directly with customers and potential customers to resolve technical problems; and assumes leadership of R&D during the absence of the R&D Manager.

Essential Functions

• Become a technical expert and thought leader.
  • Initiate and conduct new product development, especially in the areas of new alloy formulation and materials processing.
  • Maintain working knowledge of technological developments in both new and existing markets, and keep upper management aware of potential impact of these changes
  • Support new product development activities of others within the company
• Provide support within the company and to their customers
  • Provide metallurgical support to resolve day-to-day manufacturing problems with emphasis on deformation processing of materials
  • Provide technical support and training to the Sales and Marketing departments
  • Work directly with current and prospective customers to select appropriate products, or develop novel solutions if needed

Additional Responsibilities

• Form relationships with customer, industry, and academic thought leaders
• Produce high-quality, high-impact technical communications
  • Prepare well written, professional reports, whitepapers, and publication-quality manuscripts
  • Document new test methods to support improved product quality/ reliability
  • Produce detailed failure analyses for the Company, current, and prospective customers
• Track and report on the status of developmental and support projects
• Perform critical economic analysis of the value of new technologies and equipment
• Benchmark competitive products and technologies
• Supervise activities of member(s) of the R&D Technician Team

Job Summary: The Melt Shop Process Engineer is a hands-on position that requires close collaboration with the EAF, LMF, and Caster Managers, Supervisors, and Operators, as well as other departmental and operations management. This position involves quality investigations, continuous improvement, data analysis, and product/process development.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Demonstrate and emphasize safe work practices and behaviors to all employees.
2. Strive to identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, cost, organization, or efficiency.
3. Maintain and verify department production process data.
4. Report on a daily basis Day/WTD/MTD/YTD performance metrics.
5. Develop and maintain automated data collection/analysis systems.
6. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the production and maintenance workforce.
7. Lead investigations related to missed chemistries, clogging, slab surface, customer claim, or other quality-related issues.
8. Manage the scarfing and slab release processes.
9. Provide technical/analytical support for all CAPEX/product development/improvement initiative trials.
10. Oversee and coordinate the implementation of NPS system requirements.
11. Lead root cause investigations utilizing continuous improvement/PDCA methodology and implement and complete related corrective actions (production process failure analysis).
12. Review and update SOPs to meet safety/quality/cost goals.
13. Conduct periodic quality/safety/SOP audits of all areas Scrap/EAF/LMF/Caster/Scarfing Yard.

• Develop, verify, validate, and use physics-based and empirical models that simulate hot working, melting, solidification, fluid flow, atomization, heat transfer, and microstructure evolution in nickel-base superalloys, titanium alloys, and specialty steels.
• Utilize process simulation to support manufacturing process improvements that result in better product quality and lower manufacturing costs.
• Conduct testing and characterization in order to generate data necessary for model development, validation, or verification.
• Communicate results to management, colleagues, and customers in the form of written reports and oral presentations.
• Propose, defend and execute project concepts for new products, cost savings, quality improvement, and process innovation. Collaborate with technology and research colleagues across company.
• Maintain industry expertise and current knowledge of developments in process modeling by experimentation, attending meetings and conferences conducted by trade associations, by reviewing trade literature and by periodic visit to customer or supplier base.
• Enthusiastically tackle challenges and achieve results while dealing with ambiguity and change that accompanies working in a research environment.

METALLURGIST

JOB SUMMARY:
Utilizing independent judgment, this position provides technical support to the Sales Department and customers for all phases of steel operations. Supports Operations and ensures good quality procedures are in place. Oversees trials of new materials and processes to ensure good quality practices are being utilized. Provides metallurgical support to management personnel.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Works to improve process and product to meet customer requirements.
Provides technical support for all phases of steel operations including melting, teeming and annealing steel ingots.
Assists Operations in the Melting Department, as needed
Ensures that Operations follow established procedures and sound metallurgical practices.
Supports the investigation and disposition of non-conforming material.
Performs failure investigations on customer returns/claims.
Supports the Sales department by providing technical guidance and creation/revision of grades to meet customer needs.
Responsible for quality training for employees.