Process engineer

Main responsibility is to provide technical aluminum casting know-how to relevant manufacturing department and engineering, to maintain or improve product quality or processes.

• Provides training and technical development and instructions to employees and departments in order to establish manufacturing consistency and repeatability.
• Ensures that the employees have the necessary material, supplies, and tools to perform their work adequately.
• Ensures that the required production process is being followed.
• Communicates and explains activity instructions and product criteria requirements complete comprehension by the employees.
• Ensures that the employees know how to perform their duties and respect the required standards.
• Provides experience and skills to manufacturing and engineering related to part and process issues/activities.
• Responsible for product criteria setups and updating.
• Works with engineering in projects, investigations, and studies to develop, improve, correct, or optimize part quality or processes.
• Responsible for process control and product development
• Troubleshoot casting product and process issues/problems in production
• Establish, document, and verify part specific gating and risering, molding, foundry, and heat treat techniques/parameters.
• Analyze casting defects using metallography and NDT methods
• Evaluate, plan and eliminate defects, failures, and scrap for both production and development programs to ensure a robust process and consistent casting metallurgical quality
• Provide technical support and corrective action relating to customer complaints, customer returns, and internal/external audits.
• Ensure the proper calibration and operation of emission spectrometer for chemical analysis
• Support, implement, and promote foundry environmental health and safety practices
• Technical oversight and responsibilities in materials testing lab (tensile, chemistry, hardness, metallography)
• Test new foundry methods and practices
• Support all continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, and cost reduction initiatives
• Support foundry research & development process/product activities

COMPETENCY PROFILE

Education
DEC (college or foundry technology certificate) or Bachelor in Engineering (Metallurgical, Material Science)

Professional Designation

None

Experience
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.

Job Skills

Training in the following will be favorably considered.

• Continuous improvement
• Health & Safety
• Foundry experience
• Bilingual

Training requirements

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