Product Engineer Team Leader - HSC

Howmet Aerospace•Hampton, VA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Howmet Aerospace (HES) is a world-class producer of aero engine and industrial gas turbine components, including airfoils, rings, disks and forgings. We excel in vacuum melted superalloys, machining, performance coatings and hot isostatic pressing for high performance parts that enable the next generation of quieter, more fuel-efficient aero engines and cleaner power generation. Howmet Engine Systems is a business unit of Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM). For more information, visit www.howmet.com. Follow @howmet: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Howmet Engine Systems is currently seeking an experienced Operations professional to join our Structural Engineering team in Hampton, Virginia. Are you an empowered Lead Team Partner with the drive to transform ideas into sustainable value? We are seeking individuals who have a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a manufacturing environment, as well as the passion to put that experience to work to lead activities and support plant/location team to achieve manufacturing excellence. Our organization is dedicated to rapid, profitable growth through operational excellence and career development. If you are an energetic professional that wants to be a part of a dynamic team we encourage you to apply. As a Product Engineering Team Leader, you will be responsible for all dimensional characteristics and tooling pertaining to the investment casting process and our products. This may involve both new development and production castings. In this role you will be teamed up with a Process Engineer Team Leader who will be responsible for the metallurgical aspects of the process. The prime responsibility for this position is to engineer the highest yield and lowest overall cost product while meeting or exceeding all customer defined quality requirements. In this position you will work in a team environment with other engineers as well as hands on with the manufacturing team so strong communication skills are required. You will have a team of Product Engineers reporting to you that you will lead, guide and mentor to achieve the above stated goals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited four-year college or university.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience technical manufacturing experience.
Prior use of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) methods and standards.
Proficient use of Microsoft Office software, including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Reads, analyzes, and interprets technical procedures, including complex blueprints and specifications.
Effectively write reports, business correspondence, and procedures.
Presents information and responds to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and workforce teams.
Ability to apply mathematical (statistical) operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication skills are required both written and oral
This employee must be self-motivated to drive continuous improvement
Demonstrated Leadership skills are required as you will be responsible for the recruitment, development, and performance of direct reports.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited college or university.
Investment casting experience.
Proficiency in modeling programs such as Solid Works and NX CAD.
Minitab/statistics knowledge and strong Excel capabilities.
Six Sigma Green Belt certification

Responsibilities

Compliance to Howmet’s Safety Regulations
Collaborate with customers to align Blueprint to manufacturing capability
Drive continuous improvement to optimize process and cost
Lead manufacturing tooling design, construction, and implementation
Create manufacturing routing and processing instructions
Compilation of costs for quotation packages (Product, tooling and NRE)
Develop and optimize processes for production and developmental castings
Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize existing processes
Provide technical support for customer, supply chain and vendor meetings and reviews.
Must comply with all company attendance policies and guidelines; this includes, but is not limited to, regular attendance and some overtime
Excellent communication and leadership skills
Lead cross-functional problem-solving and follow-up actions to achieve team objectives
Other duties as assigned