Senior Metallurgist

Prime Responsibilities and Major Factors in Evaluating Performance: and implements metallurgical processes controls and improvements in support of product development and product maintenance activities working with quality and engineering teams to ensure customer specifications are met as well as generating technical responsibility for metallography laboratory(ies) personnel and its technical support to metallography for providing support to Operations in the areas of: new parts qualification periodic cutup evaluation review of customer technical and quality specifications and creating manufacturing procedures failure investigations and other technical activities undertaken by product metallurgy lab interacting with die engineering and sales in cost reduction and implements improvements modifications and additions that will solve problems and standardize customer and product requirements with product development activities to identify robust cost effective solutions that satisfy customer new products and process developments into manufacturing and investigates new manufacturing technologies implements new or improved manufacturing methodologies and implements process as single point of contact and technical expert for material science information in support of customer and production as necessary with customers suppliers production employees production supervisors engineers and spokesman on issues which include: casting alloy heat treatment resonant inspection NDT customer part failure analysis and negotiating technical material conflicts and internal and external technology to determine both threats and opportunities for Hitchiner products and correct record keeping to validate actions Hitchiner has taken and for intellectual property to justify actions in the Responsibilities: other duties as that all activities and operations are performed in compliance with the Companys Code of with problem solving that involve a technical as needed component testing with customers to define failure mode and Acceptable Qualifications: or MS in Metallurgical Engineering or Materials Engineering2. Minimum of 7 years proven technical experience in specialty experience in both research and the practical application of metallurgy/materials science processes within a manufacturing environment to lead in the implementation of new process technologies and to effectively act as a liaison between R&D and knowledge of metallurgical principles standards methods practices and equipment proficiency in written and verbal proficiency in data analysis applied statistics process control and measurement R& be able to think creatively and strategically to develop new concepts to improve process performance yield and product with continuous improvement including kaizen synchronous manufacturing and Six Sigma in mechanical testing and metallographic procedures and problem solving decision-making & strong prioritization skills as well as PC in dealing with production and development to review and interpret complex specification and drawing requirements.