Summary: Under the supervision of the VP of Quality, the Staff Metallurgist/Quality Engineer has responsibility for the following key functions: Company Wide – Metallurgy. Grafton Plant – process control, production quality, oversight of lab operations, and supervising, training and coaching employees.
Education/Equivalent:
•At a minimum, an Associate’s Degree in an engineering discipline is preferred.
Work Experience Needed:
•5 -7 years of related experience
Knowledge/Special Skills/Abilities Needed:
•Requires superior interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with clients, public, employees, staff, management etc.
•Must possess superior organizational skills and be able to prioritize and work simultaneously on several projects.
•Knowledge of procedure creation and auditing.
•Ability to effectively coach, monitor and discipline employees.
•Ability to operate within a team atmosphere.
•Ability to initiate, coordinate and enforce operational personnel policies and procedures.
•Strong basic mathematics and computer skills.
Nature & Scope-Principal Areas of Responsibilities: The list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.
Company Wide Responsibilities:
•Review requests for quotations to ensure we can meet material specifications and inspection requirements.
•Establish, control, analyze and monitor chemical and physical properties of all metals poured to meet customer specifications and governing standards.
•Responsible for improving quality relating to metallurgical defects.
•Responsible for material evaluations (inoculants, alloys, products affecting iron) to improve quality or reduce costs.
•Responsible for answering metallurgical questions or consulting with engineers and customers.
•Specify and monitor processes such as heat teat to produce castings with necessary properties.
•Instruct and train supervision and others in technical areas of foundry metals, sand, etc.
Grafton Plant Responsibilities:
•Laboratory/Metallurgy: Oversight of Lab Operations
•Assure that all testing is completed in a timely manner.
•Assure all equipment is calibrated and in proper working order.
•Assure all sand and metal is to specification.
•Enter daily melt data entry.
•Manage Lab Operations (Sand and Metal).
•Review checklists for key functions, including cycle and process for the following: Operation of Equipment, Cleaning of Equipment and Maintenance of Equipment.
•Review daily test results: Nodularity Testing, Chemical Analysis (Spectrometer), Physical Results and Sand Tests.
•Review daily Chemical and Physical results to identify out of specification conditions and take appropriate action.
•Work to refine and maintain melt practices.
2) Process Control:
•Develop and maintain general procedures (utilize Milwaukee ISO documents as templates) for the following areas: Melt, Cores, Molding and Cleaning.
•Incorporate best practice for all operations.
•Oversee updating of system based on changes to process, equipment or requirements using Process Change forms.
•Completes Production Process audits for all areas involved in production and inspection.
+ Develop or Modify Audit Checklist(s)
+ Determine audit cycle and perform audits
+ Provide feedback to Chief Operating Officer as appropriate.
•Responsible for scrap reporting both internal and customer returns.
•Responsible for tracking and reporting of cost and activity associated with scrap, including non-conforming salvage and repair and returns in conjunction with Chief Operating Officer.
•Daily Scrap and Customer Returns:
+ Lead daily scrap review meetings and initiate corrective actions, when required.
+ Take scrap daily and send it to Business Process Mgr. for entry.
+ Review and document scrap cause for customer returns as needed.
+ Make customer contact as required to resolve quality related issues.
+ Stop jobs, as needed, if scrap rates are “excessive”.
+ Conduct Stop Job meetings weekly.
+ Evaluate all customer returns.
+ Initiate corrective action when appropriate.
•Responsible for sample tracking – New and Existing:
+ Initiate sample travel and maintain all associated documentation.
+ Locate and expedite samples through the foundry/finishing process, capturing all needed process documentation.
+ Communicate with Technical Director when parts needing PPAP or revision change confirmation are ready for X-ray, Layout, etc.
+ Assure all process details are loaded into the AS-400 system after sample approval, utilizing all appropriate forms.
+ Member of the NJSU team.
+ Perform duties as outlined in Pre-Production process procedure.
Tooling Issues:
•Coordinate the tooling repair process as indicated from core/mold inspection sheets, excessive scrap/returns, or random visual inspection of tooling.
Communicate with pattern shops, Technical Director, or Sales Dept. as needed to expedite quotations, PO’s, etc.
•Supervisory Responsibilities:
•Supervise, train, coach and review performance of employees on a regular basis; perform probationary reviews; communicate job expectations; Assure that employees are adhering to all company policies and procedures.
•Assure that all employees understand and abide by all company safety regulations and policies, including scheduling employees to attend all assigned meetings, promptly investigating accidents and near misses, completing appropriate reports and taking action to eliminate potential safety hazards
5) Participate in continuous improvement team projects.
Direct Reports: Lab Technician
Quality Tech
Essential Functions:
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or touch, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk, reach above shoulders, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and use foot/feet to operate machine. The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move items that weigh anywhere from 10 lbs to 50 lbs and occasionally lift items that weigh up to 100 pounds with the assistance of a hoist or crane. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Grafton, WI
Full-time
