Process Metallurgist

Category: Quality

Job Summary:

The Process Metallurgist position is responsible for overseeing the processes within a production unit (Central Quality, Casting, Plate, Hot Rolling, Cold Rolling/Finishing) to optimize performance, maximize material recovery, eliminate process waste, and enhance productivity and conversion costs through metallurgical solutions, focused improvement projects, and process control. This role also ensures the maintenance of quality system requirements for the department and customer quality satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Maintain and enhance processing practices to improve product capability and performance, process efficiency, and material recovery.
Provide technical expertise and support for the daily activities of the production unit.
Support the development of processes for new products.
Maintain all relevant technical practices, customer and 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.
Identify opportunities for process improvement and act on those ideas through equipment modification, process enhancement, material changes, etc.
Maintain the quality systems requirements for the production unit, including internal audits, equipment calibration, corrective action requests (CAR), process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), external audits, etc.
Ensure full compliance with societal and customer specifications.
Ensure customer quality satisfaction by managing customer claims and corrective action requests (CAR).
Benchmark within the industry and sister facilities to ensure the site maintains processes in compliance with customer needs and best practice levels.
Acquire comprehensive knowledge of the specific products and processes at the Ravenswood facility.

Qualifications:

Bachelors of Science in Metallurgy or Materials Science, required
1 to 3 years’ experience in manufacturing (preferably in aluminum Casting, Plate, hot or cold rolling), strongly preferred
- more experienced (5+ years) applicants will be given preference

About Constellium
With ~1,200 employees, Constellium’s plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is one of the world’s largest rolled products facilities, offering customers the most powerful plate stretchers in the world, as well as one of the largest cold rolling mills. Built in 1957, the plant houses 62 acres (about 250,900 m²) of production facilities, and is one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.

We produce plate, sheet, and coil products for aerospace, defense, transportation, marine, and industrial uses. As the global leader in aluminum aerospace technology, we specialize in high performance plates, sheets and extrusions that bring cost and performance benefits to space programs and military and commercial aircraft. Our advanced aluminum products manufactured in the US, France and Switzerland can be found in platforms manufactured by Airbus, Applied Materials, Blue Origin, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, General Dynamics, LAM, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and others. The Ravenswood facility is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, along the Ohio River. It is the largest employer in Jackson County, and one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.

A culture of family, community, and hard work runs deep in Jackson County. Located in the western region of West Virginia, it is one of the most productive regions in the state, with Ripley as its county seat and Ravenswood serving as its largest municipality. Ripley sits between the Parkersburg and Charleston metropolitan areas.

The region offers plenty of activities, both open-air and indoors, for a wide range of interests. These include parks, lakes, forests, Civil War trails, golf courses, historical landmarks (covered bridges, a heritage house, a castle), museums and galleries, conference centers, the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Charleston Light Opera Guild, and much more.