Manager - Metallurgy

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry. EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals.

EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

• 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 ₂ 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…