Principal Metallurgist

PURPOSE:

Position is accountable for providing technical, metallurgical, input as to proper customer requirements, then necessary control of estimating, design, processing and testing to ensure all specs are met in efficient, cost-effective manners. Lead the team of metallurgists and take responsibility for the department.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Defining and explaining engineering capabilities.
• Ensuring that the product is capable of meeting the customer requirements.
• Ensuring that the customer approval and fixed practice requirements are followed.
• Ensuring that the processes are optimized for cost and operational efficiency.
• Planning DOE’s and MPE’s to improve process capability.
• Working with the Operations and Planning group to facilitate material movement through the department.
• Working with the OSC to develop subcontractor approvals and agree process routes.
• Define product process capability and ensure that contract review process results in acknowledgement of orders that have proven capability, or that appropriate exceptions or risks (in case of developmental products or process) are communicated
• Review non-standard orders and poor process capability orders.
• Review basis specifications and consult with tech edit on capabilities versus requirements.
• Define test requirements.
• Maintain FTP databases and address causes of non-conformance.
• Manage customer relationships
• Comment and negotiate on specification technical requirements.
• Provide resolution to customer technical questions/problems
• Answer customer complaints of a technical nature.
• Manage customer process qualifications, approvals and metallurgical offers.
• Develop strong relationships with counterparts at customers and end users.
• Participate in customer visits and audits and appropriately address resultant actions.
• Provide technical leadership within the department: supervise, train and develop product metallurgists, Educate production personnel in metallurgical and quality assurance requirements.
• Liaise with research group, sales and applications development team(s) on new product/process development.
• Facilitate communication and achievement of company and plant goals and objectives

REQUIREMENTS:

• B.S. in metallurgy/material engineering and 10 years relevant experience in metal melting, fabrication, or forging processes.
• Knowledge of or experience with steels, titanium, and/or nickel-based alloys preferred.
• Managerial expertise with metallurgists and technicians.
• Knowledge of manufacturing operations.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong technical background.
• Organizational and leadership skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Quality assurance process skills.
• Can work well with colleagues.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.