Lead Metallurgical Engineer (Quality)

• Environmental, health, and safety (EHS): This position is expected to fully support Davenport Works EHS policies and programs.
• This is to be accomplished by staying current on required training, being responsible for ones own safety, helping enforce safe work practices in the mill and ensuring that those under their mentorship are properly trained.
• Strong ethics and integrity with focus on product and customer requirements.
• Interfacing and collaborating with our technologists in our Technical Center.
• Communicate with customers on product opportunities, claims, and field service support.
• This position is expected to understand how ABS principles apply to their area of competency and apply those principles in solving problems and deploying solutions.
• The position is expected to understand the problem-solving process and process management systems.
• Supports process and product improvement initiatives utilizing the appropriate quality and ABS tools within a manufacturing area.
• Leads technical and quality system activities within a manufacturing or product area.
• Provides support in capability and compliance technical audits.
• Provides minimal prioritization of work.
• Ensures that quality systems in their area are performing correctly and reacts to exceptions, especially systems and processes impacting product integrity.
• This role requires knowledge of metallurgical processing, upstream manufacturing processes, and customer requirements.

• Bachelors degree in metallurgical engineering or materials science from an accredited institution, or related field.
• Minimum of six (6) years of metallurgical experience working with metals.
• Experience in one or more areas of coil or sheet finish, rolling, extrusion, forging.
• Broad understanding of finishing operations and interactions with product criteria for coil and sheet, upstream processing, surface criteria, metallurgy, and thermal processes.
• Ability to lead multi-function teams for problem solving and continual improvement.
• Knowledgeable in industry standards for mechanical testing.
• Strong interpersonal skills and communication.

• 10+ years manufacturing quality experience.
• Experience in industrial, aerospace, and automotive processes and products.
• Knowledge of finishing operations for raw material processes.
• Knowledgeable in quality system standards in one or more of ISO9001, IATF16949, AS9100.

Last updated on Feb 6, 2023