Braze Manager

Pay Range: $85,000 - $105,000; based on skills/experience.

Pay Range: $85,000 - $105,000; based on skills/experience.

401k Match, Medical, Dental and Vision Plans for Employees and Families

Our people are the heart of our business. As the world’s largest provider of thermal processing services, Bodycote employs thousands of highly skilled staff around the globe, some of the best engineers, scientists, and technicians in the industry. Come join our team!

Due to the nature of our business and a heavy industrial market, Bodycote deems this position to be safety sensitive.

Reporting to the General Manager, the Braze Manager is responsible for the safe, efficient, and effective operation of all brazing activities at the South Windsor facility. This position provides leadership for brazing personnel and is accountable for staffing, training, scheduling, process control, quality, equipment readiness, productivity, and continuous improvement. The Braze Manager works closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Sales, and customers to ensure brazing processes meet customer specifications, applicable quality requirements, delivery commitments, and business objectives.

• Lead daily brazing operations across all applicable shifts, ensuring appropriate staffing and effective utilization of personnel and equipment.
• Maintain a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with company safety policies, procedures, JSAs, and environmental requirements.
• Plan and coordinate brazing workload to meet production requirements, and on-time delivery commitments.
• Monitor furnace capacity, utilization, cycle times, downtime, and production constraints and take appropriate corrective action.
• Provide technical leadership for vacuum brazing processes, including furnace cycles, tooling/fixturing, braze allow selection, process development, and troubleshooting.
• Develop and optimize brazing processes for existing customer applications, including trials and qualifying activities.
• Review customer specifications, drawings, purchase orders, and technical requirements to ensure process capability and compliance.
• Partner with Quality to investigate nonconforming product, determine root cause, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence.
• Ensure brazing processes, documentation, and work instructions comply with applicable customer, quality system, and special process requirements, including AS9100, and NADCAP, as applicable.
• Support internal, customer, and NADCAP audits and ensure timely closure of brazing related findings.
• Ensure employee performance, attendance, development, coaching, and disciplinary actions in coordination with the General Manager and HR.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities related to safety, quality, productivity, capacity, cost, and turnaround time.
• Evaluate equipment condition and capacity requirements and recommend maintenance, repairs, upgrades, tooling, and capital investments.
• Coordinate with Maintenance to minimize equipment downtime and maintain furnace and support equipment readiness.
• Provide technical support to Sales and assist with RFQs, process feasibility reviews, estimated processing requirements, and customer technical discussions.
• Monitor departmental performance and communicate key operational issues, risks, capacity constraints, and improvement activities to the General Manager.
• Support development of departmental budgets and control operating expenses, consumables, tooling, and other brazing related costs.
• May have access to compensation information of other employees or applicants in this role and as such cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to other…