Recycling & Casting Project Leader

constellium•Muscle Shoals, AL

22h

About The Position

The Recycling & Casting Project Leader is to lead the process development and best practice sharing work in his technology field including: identifying and leading implementation of best practices in the Constellium plants linked with furnaces and combustion technology, leading combustion and furnace reliability with plant experts, and provide technical support for improvement process in recycling (scrap cold preparation, scrap immersion,…) and melting technology deployment. Constellium is a global leader developing and manufacturing high value-added aluminum products and solutions for a broad scope of markets and applications, focusing on Aerospace, Automotive & Packaging. We design, develop and engineer products / solutions in partnership with our customers. With approximately 11,500 employees worldwide, Constellium operates 24 manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and China with reported 2025 revenue of $8.4 billion. A technology team has been created since 2012 to develop and implement Constellium-wide technologies to achieve best in class performances in our process steps and routes in all dimensions (throughput, productivity, recovery, lead time, capability, inventory, energy, reliability...) and lead industrialization of new products and processes. Within this team the Recycling & Casting Project Leader reporting to the BPC Casting & Recycling Manager has the mandate to drive process improvement and best practice roll out within his technology field around recycling & casting that includes furnace technologies (induction, rotary tilting and reverberatory), sustainability (energy, environmental compliance), molten metal processing, combustion and refractory expertise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering field required.
Leadership Skills: Ensure interfaces and efficient communication with internal and external partners, based on a wide knowledge of the organization
Use good listening skills to truly hear and understand what others are saying
Implement and maintain a sharing culture in his/her scope
Foster teamwork
Entrepreneurship skills: Manage and track process over time, in a consistent and holistic manner to detect and capitalize relevant information
Technical skills: Good knowledge of Aluminum process and products and expertise level in:
Furnace design, gas fire and induction furnace operation, combustion process
Emission control and prevention
Dross processing
Liquid metal degassing and filtration
Synthetic analysis and reporting
English proficient/French preferred

Responsibilities

Ensuring technology and competitive watch in their technology field.
Organizing internal and external benchmarking in their technology field.
Identifying and leading implementation of process improvement on prioritized high-value-at-stake Constellium projects.
Defining and leading implementation of best practices / guidelines / standard & reference practices
Defining internal and external resources needed for implementation
Giving guidance on process in his field including needed capex
Support refractory alternatives selection, test, and deployment.
Support Energy and Refractory network
Support the deployment and roadmap for casthouse energy.
Build process KPIs and benchmarking system.