Quality Manager and Metallurgist
About The Position
The Quality Manager and Metallurgist implements and controls manufacturing quality systems, including employee training, rejection analysis and reduction, customer complaint handling and follow-up, continuous improvement, and process parameter specification. The role leads the Quality department, including Lab Technicians and Quality Engineers. The position also assists in developing and analyzing high-volume heat-treatment and phosphate-coating processes for steel and aluminum bar, castings, and forgings. This work applies principles of deformation processes, materials thermodynamics, kinetics and diffusion, and material selection. The role serves as the plant auditee during ISO, NADCAP, and IATF audits. This Aalberts facility is ITAR certified. Employees are required to be U.S. citizens or green card holders.
Requirements
- Degree in Metallurgy or a related field.
- At least five years of manufacturing experience or equivalent.
- Good knowledge of the automotive industry and systems such as ISO 9001/IATF 16949, CQI-9, CQI-12, and NADCAP.
- Ability to plan, determine, formulate, establish, and manage complete quality assurance systems.
- Maintain high quality standards and use tact when dealing with employees and customers.
- Ability to supervise and communicate effectively, use computer-related quality programs, and write well.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to use higher mathematics involving engineering principles.
- Extensive knowledge of heat-treating principles, including time and temperature, transformation relations, different SAE steels, hardness and microstructural analysis, and quality control using SPC techniques.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder due to the facility's ITAR certification.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AS400.
Responsibilities
- Implement and control manufacturing quality systems.
- Train employees on quality systems and processes.
- Analyze, control, and minimize rejections.
- Handle and follow up on customer complaints.
- Drive continuous improvement and specify processing parameters.
- Lead the Quality department, including Lab Technicians and Quality Engineers.
- Assist in developing and analyzing high-volume heat-treatment and phosphate-coating processes for steel and aluminum bar, castings, and forgings.
- Apply principles of deformation processes, materials thermodynamics, kinetics and diffusion, and material selection to process development and analysis.
- Serve as the plant auditee during ISO, NADCAP, and IATF audits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
