Sr. Metallurgist

Country:
United States of America

State / County:
Pennsylvania

City:
Mountaintop

Division:
Wyman Gordon

Company:
Mountaintop

Function:
Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-Site

Position type:
Full Time

Opportunity

Wyman Gordon Pennsylvania, a division of Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC), manufactures flash-welded and cold-rolled near-net-shape rings for the aerospace gas turbine industry. The Senior Plant Metallurgist provides hands-on metallurgical leadership and technical support to the Mountaintop and Tru-Form facilities, with primary residence  role partners with Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, laboratory personnel, suppliers, and customers to ensure safe, capable, compliant, and cost-effective processes.

The role will partner with external labs to manage testing. Primary material systems include nickel- and cobalt-base superalloys, titanium alloys, stainless steels, and other iron-base aerospace alloys.

• Provide day-to-day metallurgical leadership for the Mountaintop and Tru-Form facilities and serve as a primary technical resource for manufacturing, quality, engineering, laboratory, and commercial teams.
• Establish, document, and maintain metallurgical controls for flash welding, heat treatment, forming, rolling, machining, and materials testing.
• Develop concise operating procedures, work instructions, process specifications, and control plans that promote repeatability and preserve critical process knowledge.
• Lead the Process Control Welding Initiative by defining process parameters, control limits, reaction plans, and verification methods in partnership with Engineering and Manufacturing.
• Build practical knowledge of flash welding and ring manufacturing through direct shop-floor engagement, review of internal technical records, and collaboration with operators and engineers.
• Interpret customer, industry, and regulatory requirements and translate them into clear manufacturing, inspection, testing, and acceptance criteria.
• Own metallurgical aspects of new product introduction, process development, qualification, and customer approval activities, including technical planning, trial execution, data review, and final reporting.
• Investigate test failures, nonconformances, customer complaints, returns, and process excursions using structured problem-solving methods; define containment, root cause, corrective action, and effectiveness verification.
• Apply statistical methods-including SPC, capability analysis, measurement-system evaluation, and trend analysis-to reduce variation, improve first-pass yield, and lower scrap, rework, concessions, and cost of poor quality.
• Establish and maintain controls for raw-material purchases, outside testing, subcontract laboratories, and calibration providers; work with suppliers to improve technical and quality performance.
• Manage continuous Nadcap accreditation for Welding, Heat Treat, and Materials Testing Laboratories, as well as compliance with AS9100 and customer-specific requirements.
• Prepare for and participate in internal, customer, regulatory, and third-party audits; lead timely closure of metallurgical findings and preventive read-across actions.
• Maintain the specification and testing-requirements database, evaluate revisions, and ensure changes are incorporated into affected procedures, routers, and process controls.
• Represent the company in customer technical discussions, product-development activities, issue-resolution meetings, and technical presentations.
• Participate in applicable industry or SAE committees and support the development or revision of flash-welded ring standards.
• Mentor engineers, laboratory personnel, technicians, and operators in metallurgy, process control, defect prevention, and structured problem solving.
• Support plant safety, lean manufacturing, on-time delivery, and zero-defect initiatives, and perform other technically related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum of five years of metallurgical, materials, manufacturing, or process-engineering experience in an ISO 9001/AS9100-regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience in technical problem solving, process development, product qualification, or continuous improvement.
• Ability to interpret customer and industry specifications, engineering drawings, test requirements, and process standards and convert them into effective…