Melt Supervisor

ASC Engineered Solutions • Columbia, PA

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About The Position

The Melt Supervisor will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our manufacturing processes. We are looking for someone with exceptional management skills, a strong focus on safety, and a passion for driving operational excellence through continuous improvement methodologies like Kaizen.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required.
• BS in Metallurgy, Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or similar technical discipline preferred.
• Professional certifications would be beneficial.
• Basic understanding of the principles of electric induction furnaces would be beneficial.
• Minimum of 2+ years of actual Melt operations experience in a high-volume foundry.
• Work in an ISO-9001:2015 environment would be a plus.
• Experience with a union preferred.
• Must have strong work ethic, outgoing and assertive personality.
• Must have excellent team-building skills with subordinates as well as with peers.
• Professional PC literacy skills in MS Word and Excel are required.
• Personal hands-on experience with specific foundry operations.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certifications in relevant fields.
• Experience in an ISO-9001:2015 environment.
• Experience working in a unionized setting.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and monitor daily and weekly shift work plans and staffing in conjunction with Production Control.
• Monitor and assure proper staffing of trained personnel in all key operational areas of Melt department.
• Immediately appraise the Manager of any significant quality or productivity problems to assure immediate corrective action.
• In coordination with Production Control, Quality Control and Materials personnel, achieve perform-to-schedule goals.
• Work with Maintenance and Human Resources personnel, within specific directions by the Melt Manager, to achieve maximum production and staffing 'up-time' consistent with trained manpower and equipment availability.
• Participate in quality and safety reviews and audits to maintain and improve the ISO-9001:2015 implementation of work procedures and policies.
• Advise Manager of challenges, problems, improvements, ideas and opportunities that are fostered by salaried and hourly workers.
• Must perform furnace re-lines, deal with refractory issues, melt temperatures and assure furnace life.
• Responsibilities include preparing chemistry samples and operating the spectrometer and Carbon/Sulfur analyzer.
• Preparing tensile specimens and operating Universal testing machine.
• Preparing microstructures and analysis.
• Operating sand testing equipment including Methylene Blue titration test.
• Directing Ductile Iron treatment process and testing.
• Assuring iron integrity and verifying results using microscopic and chemical analysis.
• Specifically responsible for the work safety and product quality environment of Melt Department.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees