Process Metallurgist

Primary Purpose:

The Process Metallurgist position owns the process in the production unit, in order to optimize performance, maximize material recovery, eliminate process waste and improve productivity & conversion costs through metallurgical solutions, focused improvement projects and process control. This position also maintains the quality systems requirement for plate path and customer quality satisfaction.

Key Accountabilities:
 

• Maintain and improve processing practices to improve product capability & performance, process efficiency and material recovery throughout the plate path
• Provide Technical expertise & support to daily activities of production unit
• Support process development for new products
• Maintain all appropriate technical practices, customer & special process specifications and formal reports.
• Lead or participate in the investigation, data analysis and implementation of solutions to complex problems involving multiple production centers and technical aspects.
• Envision opportunities for process improvement and act on those ideas through equipment modification, process improvement, material changes, etc.
• Maintain the quality systems requirement for the production unit (internal audits, equipment calibration, CAR, PFMEA, external audits, etc.)
• Ensure full Compliance to Society and Customer specifications in the rolling process
• Ensure customer quality satisfaction by managing customer claims and CAR
• Benchmark within the Industry and sister facilities to ensure site maintains processes in compliance to customer needs and at best practice levels.
• Become knowledgeable of the specific products and processes at the Ravenswood plate and coil facilities.

Leadership Competencies and Technical Skills Requirement 

• Bachelors of Science in Metallurgy or Materials Science
•  3 years of experience in Manufacturing (preferably in Aluminum industry) is desired
• Teamwork & Mutual Trust
• Entrepreneurship & Decisiveness
• Sense of Urgency & Decentralized Decision making
• Responsibility & Accountability
• Rigor & Discipline
• Transparency & Highest Standards of Ethics

Complexity

• Results-oriented with a data-driven, structured approach to root cause analysis and problem-solving
• Effective in working in a team environment as well as working with aggressive individual goals
• Capable of interacting and leading across multiple areas and levels of the organization.
• Leading cross-functional teams for process management and improvements
• Routine communication to management and to the shop floor about the progress of KPIs and the countermeasures in place to reach targets
• Ability to quickly evaluate situations and make timely decisions regarding operating priorities, material disposition, corrective actions, containment requirements, and communication strategy.
• Frequently deals with issues that are complex with no definitive "best practice" and multiple departments and various levels of management are needed to resolve
• Works most in collaborative problem solving with unit teams
• Authority to release tested material from the laboratory or from quality hold based on evaluation criteria

Job Dimensions

The Ravenswood operation is 24/7, there is an expectation of off-shift work from time to time as required by production or projects priorities.

It is expected that 40% of the time will be spent on the floor observing, auditing, and communicating to crews.  About 30% of the time will be spent collecting and analyzing data.  The remaining time shall be spent in meetings, communicating, and reporting.

Significant Relationships

Internal

• APU Technical Manager
• APU Managers
• Central quality
• Reliability Engineer
• Process development metallurgists
• Reliability Managers

External

• Customers
• Auditors & staff engineers
• Constellium research center & sister facilities
• Outside labs

Rolling Process Metallurgist