Metallurgical Engineering Lead

Job Description Summary

Dauch is hiring a Metallurgical Engineering Lead to support technical metallurgical and heat treat leadership teams, leading complex investigations and audits, and driving standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives at our Fort Wayne facility.

Metallurgical Engineering Lead

• Oversee metallurgy, heat treatment, and material processing across assigned plants, programs, or supplier base to ensure quality and integrity of components.
• Direct safe/proper set up, validation, operation and maintenance for metallurgical and heat treat processes and equipment and develop/document process parameters.
• Write Materials Specifications, plant metallurgy procedures, metallurgy process documentation.
• Manage all activities in the metallurgy laboratory supporting manufacturing plant materials items.
• Perform analysis on components and materials and write concise engineering reports documenting findings/conclusions.
• Metallurgical process development for new products and materials.
• Provide technical direction within metallurgy, quality, procurement, manufacturing and product engineering for all materials related items.
• Oversee complex metallurgical investigations, including failure analysis, heat treat nonconformances, and customer issues.
• Act as a mentor, coaching metallurgists, quality engineers, and manufacturing teams.
• Establish, standardize, and maintain metallurgical and heat treatment best practices, specifications, and technical guidelines.

• Bachelor's Degree in Materials Science/Metallurgy or Chemistry.
• 5 years of experience in Materials design, analysis / Fracture analysis, processing and testing.
• 4 years manufacturing experience involving heat treatment of materials including Gas Carburizing heat treatment.
• Thorough understanding of Quality Systems (ISO/TS 16949), FMEA, APQP, PPAP, MSA and SPC preferred.

Dauch will not discriminate against any Associate or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. Dauch will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that Associates are treated equally during employment, without regard to their age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law.

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