Metallurgist

Title of Supervisor – Technical Manager


Title of next level Supervisor  – Technical & Quality Director

Location – Sheffield

Hours – 37.5 hours per week

Job Summary

Technical resource focused on process control and product activities

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead projects to improve product quality and/or decrease cost (eg. Yield, Right First Time).

• Interface with customers on defining technical requirements and resolving customer problems.

• Work closely with operations to resolve internal technical problems.

• Working with Operations to ensure all relevant documentation for current products are updated to
the required standard.

• Establish and monitor KPIs for key process operations.

• Development and introduction of new products.

• Operate in line with the company’s culture of quality and safety whilst undertaking any activity.

• Mentor technical graduates and placements students as applicable.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications


Minimum Requirements:


• Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgy, Materials Science or equivalent.


• A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in a relevant industrial environment with demonstrable experience within the aerospace, oil and gas or power generation sector.


• A solid understanding of the physical metallurgy of steel and nickel-based alloys.


• Demonstrable experience of hot working processes.


• Demonstrable experience of OEM customer quality systems.


• Knowledge and application of improvement tools and techniques – RCCA, problem solving, error
proofing, RAA, SPC.

Desirable Requirements:


• Experience of vacuum induction melting.


• Experience of consumable electrode remelting.


• Experience of NADCAP controlled heating furnaces.