Manufacturing Engineer

Opportunity:

This role will provide metallurgical & process support to Manufacturing in various areas throughout the plant and to our numerous outside conversion operations. In addition, this person will support Purchasing, Production Control, Quality Control and Sales/Marketing in a shared goal of improving safety, quality, productivity and cost while ensuring that our products meet the internal and external requirements of our customers.

Qualifications:

Education:

BS Engineering Materials Science or Metallurgical, or other Engineering specialty.

Experience:

0-3 yrs. Will consider a recent graduate.

Areas of Knowledge:

Basic materials science, Thermomechanical processing of hot-forged, hot-rolled and/or cold rolling metals & finishing of flats and round products; Physical metallurgy of Ni- and Co base alloys; Manufacturing processes and equipment for conversion of Ingot metallurgy forms into wrought products; Statistical Process Control (SPC) and/or Lean Manufacturing principles.

Skills:

Leadership, organization, communication/technical writing, math/analytical skills, SPC, computer skills.

Responsibilities:

1. Manufacturing Processes Control:

(a) Provide daily technical/metallurgical support to our internal and external Mfg. processes to meet our monthly production goals. Audit routings to ensure that appropriate deformation/annealing/processing parameters will achieve passing specification property requirements.

(b) Identify control parameters in assigned areas and monitor these for material response to reduce scrap/rework and other off-quality trends.

(c) Monitor/maintain property trend data for key process characteristics.

(d) Utilize standard Microsoft programs and Haynes internal programs in daily work for data analysis and trending.

2. Quality Systems:

(a) Disposition quality and/or metallurgical Product Reviews in a timely manner.

(b) Analyze trends on material issues related to Product Reviews.

(c) Maintain, develop, and improve Standard Operating Practices/Quality Control Instructions, as needed.

3. Process Metallurgy:

(a) Demonstrate an understanding of compositional and thermomechanical processing impacts in decision-making.

(b) Provide metallurgical support to ensure all assigned products meets specification requirements.

(c) Provide Marketing/Sales/Customers with relevant metallurgical and process information, as requested.

4. Processes Used:

(a) Utilize the Haynes’ internal procedures to initiate, evaluate and summarize improvement trials.

(b) Work as directed on process planning for special projects and new alloy scale-up activities.

5. Communication:

(a) Summarize monthly activities for the Mfg. Engineering monthly report in a timely manner.

(b) Communicate material processing information to appropriate colleagues, as necessary.

6. Leadership:

(a) Conduct daily duties in an effective and professional manner.

(b) Effectively supervise Manufacturing Engineering technician(s) to be able to complete tasks in a timely manner.