Manager - Metallurgy

Job Purpose

Set up and improve product quality characteristics develop and provide safe operating practices and define measurement techniques to ensure that casting operations is able to produce value added products at the required quality meeting customer s specification Set up and improve product quality characteristics establish cross-departmental procedures e g for bus bar mill scrap oversee recycled metal evaluation and expand metallurgical services to support operational demands and increased customer-driven technical requirements Contribute toward developing various alloys products and processes to enhance the productivity while maintaining the lowest possible manufacturing costs without compromising the best quality target

• Safety Ensure that subordinates are trained and developed to carry out their required duties in a competent manner and ensure that people working in his team follows safety rules and practices
• Quality Direct the activities of a multi- cultured workforce efficiently and effectively to ensure Cast house produces a range of products and alloys to meet customer expectations Initiates or participates in process product optimisation drives to contribute toward continuous improvement in product quality and process efficiency
  
  Ensures that established product quality criteria related to metal cleanliness assessments of liquid metal metallography studies of cast products are effectively utilized
  
  Establishes and validates TDS Technical Data Sheets across departments including Potroom Services e g SRSS rotors Reduction e g TiB granules and external recycled scrap evaluation Oversees full metallographic analysis of recycled secondary aluminium products and implementation of scrap-based process protocols in coordination with cast house operations Ensures procedures are developed for handling non-casthouse scrap sources e g dig out mill scrap bus bars to maintain quality consistency Leads metal cleanliness monitoring plans aligned with client requirements and process capability reporting Approves or rejects all consumables only after full metallurgical evaluation Manages technical interface with growing customer base through audits visits and resolution of customer complaints Ensure that the necessary practices and procedures in place and applied in the Casthouse are in compliance with ISO
  9001 ISO
  14001 IATF 16949 ISO 45001 VDA 6 3 6 5
  
  Develops and enforces metallurgical quality sessions for all shifts and levels to maintain high awareness across the workforce
• Budgets&Costs Select recommend metallurgical equipment to provide the necessary services required for technical development in the casting process to meet the technological as well as market requirements Controls budgets and seeks to minimize costs where appropriate
  
  Explore potential for savings in controllable cost to achieve management actions without impacting the final product quality
• Operations Control the activities of metallographic metal cleanliness assessment develop necessary procedures to provide complete metallographic services for metal quality assessments process control and customer s complaints investigation Establishes cross-functional task forces to investigate recurring operational issues and implement systemic solutions across departments Assist implement and maintain a systematic evaluation of the alloying materials to continuously improve product quality and process efficiency Assist area senior manager in developing specification for refractory materials and other process materials ensure that these materials are systematically evaluated and MSDS Material safety Data sheet are checked to avoid adverse effects on processes and products Coordinates technical support to internal departments ATA Potroom Power Technology to align with evolving product and scrap integration demands Manages audits of consumables suppliers and integrates assessments into procurement qualification processes Leads metallurgy team s readiness and procedure setup for the recycling plant process products including sampling and evaluation framework Assist Area Director in the investigation of customer complaints…