Senior Technologist - Koppel, PA

Identify and implement best operational practices by promoting technological updates, collaborating on production compliance, optimizing processes and supply costs, ensuring adherence to quality standard, and maintaining a safe work environment.

Provide quality assurance for end products and analyze performance of the manufacturing process and design or improve manufacturing practices.

Comply with established quality standards and design a stable and defect-free process and track quality procedures from generation to implementation.

Optimize the process using technological information and reports from competitors, benchmarking activities, and R&D areas.

Coordinate technological R&D activities in the area.

Provide technical support ensuring the provision of technical services on initiatives of new projects related to the line/process.

Ensure satisfaction of internal clients and external customers by monitoring product quality results and analyzing/implementing action plans as required.

Collaborate in the fulfilment of cost objectives, optimizing the use of the most relevant supplies.

Collaborate in compliance with line manufacturing programs verifying that the performance of machinery and instruments used in the production process respond to established use and efficiency criteria.

Take into consideration energy saving issues when developing phases and processes.

Comply with HSE procedures, report any incidents or observations, perform inspections, and participate in the investigation process.

Implement the preventive/corrective actions.

Remain updated on the risk analysis and the environmental aspect assessment.

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Metallurgy Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science or a closely related field.

Three (3) years of experience in a related occupation in a Quality department for casing and tubing used in the oil and gas industry performing each of the following: analyzing product capability using advanced statistics; interpreting Process Capability Index (CpK) and Process Performance Index (PpK) charts for products; performing regression analysis to find root causes in multivariable issues during heat treatment and defect analysis; creating Power BI and Level 2 automation tools to analyze process data and predict issues to prevent product quality issues; utilizing Intelligent Building Automation (iBA) to understand process trends and find deficiencies in heat treatment of steel and steelmaking processes; utilizing optical microscopy to understand microstructure of steel and interpreting structure property correlations to reduce generation of non-confirming material; and analyzing customer technical specifications related to casing and tubing used in the oil and gas industry product requirements and analyzing feasibility of conforming to customer requirements.