Quality Manufacturing Engineer

Make an Impact With Us

At Vallourec, we are seeking individuals whose passion and dedication match the strength and resilience of the steel we produce. The VAM Threading Competence Center (VAM TCC) was created 15 years ago. Its primary mission is to give the Industrial support to the Group in order to expand our footprint and capacity for OCTG Premium Threading. Acting as a center of expertise, VAM TCC drives performance across manufacturing plants by benchmarking processes, monitoring KPIs, and ensuring the deployment of best practices.

The team combines deep technical knowledge with training initiatives to develop new experts and foster continuous improvement in safety, quality, and cost efficiency. Each focal point within the TCC plays a critical role in supporting industrialization, troubleshooting, equipment development, and knowledge sharing across Vallourec's worldwide threading community.

Your Role at a Glance

* To work on the continuous improvement of the assigned OCTG processes. Looking at Safety, Quality and cost savings improvement.

* Define and drive inspection processes ambitions (short, mid and long term):

* Thread dimensional inspection: assess current technologies and solutions. Lead solution qualification and prepare future deployments.

* Profile inspection: support ongoing projects. Assess additional existing solutions (test, qualification) and prepare future deployments.

* Final visual inspection: support ongoing projects

* Digital logsheet (DLS): define/review mid- and long-term road map. Write functional specifications with the project team. Communicate about new features to the DLS users. Lead troubleshooting and support to the users. Develop training material for the DLS

* Capability studies: support plants on threading and gauging capability studies. Benchmark existing gauging practices (means, frequencies) to identify room for opportunities. Review and validate capability studies with One R&D and VAM Services

* Locking position control: support future solutions for high torque products locking position control: participate to working group, lead test and industrialization, support deployment in the plants…

* Find/Benchmark Technologies:
Regarding the challenge of manufacturing products, this position can be challenged to find technologies capable to solve certain quality, process or safety issues in process.

* Prototype Develop:
In the case the process needs to develop a prototype for new technology or evolution of process standards it is valid to test new equipment under the perimeter of a prototype, this will be linked with a pilot plant, tested and validated for future deployment. (Equipment to adapt current equipment)

* Training Team and Material Development:
To collaborate with E learning team of VAM TCC in order to build modules for training purposes but also develop a stress relief network and school inside VALLOUREC per region.

* Build CAPEX Plan:
Based on return of experiences from existing machines or from prototyping and development of new equipment, this position will be involved in anticipating future capex. He will have to assist and prepare CAPEX project model (Incl. Equipment investment, layout footprint…) in order to prepare stress-relief activities in Vallourec plants and accessories shops.

* OPEX estimation:
Capable to foresee how new processes, new technologies, new VAM Products industrialization can impact of such in the operational cost of Vallourec Plants.

* Deployment: capable to define and support the industrial strategy in a Threading line for new product industrialization and for VAM product development in One R&D. This will include the suppliers strategy management and the support to Vallourec Threading lines (support to plant production, troubleshooting and preventive maintenance rules definition)

* To animate the threading community: sharing update on process, facilitating exchanges between the plants, participating to benchmark activities.

* To be the referent about any question related to his/her processes, including being part of Group Quality and Safety documentation work groups (e.g. TSLI revision)

* To identify today experts and potential future…