Staff Metallurgist/Quality Engineer

Summary: Under the supervision of the VP of Quality, the Staff Metallurgist/Quality Engineer has responsibility for the following key functions: Company Wide – Metallurgy. Grafton Plant – process control, production quality, oversight of lab operations, and supervising, training and coaching employees.

Education/Equivalent:

Work Experience Needed:

Knowledge/Special Skills/Abilities Needed:

Nature & Scope-Principal Areas of Responsibilities: The list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

Company Wide Responsibilities:

Grafton Plant Responsibilities:

2) Process Control:

+ Develop or Modify Audit Checklist(s) + Determine audit cycle and perform audits + Provide feedback to Chief Operating Officer as appropriate.

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Production Quality:

+ Lead daily scrap review meetings and initiate corrective actions, when required. + Take scrap daily and send it to Business Process Mgr. for entry. + Review and document scrap cause for customer returns as needed. + Make customer contact as required to resolve quality related issues. + Stop jobs, as needed, if scrap rates are “excessive”. + Conduct Stop Job meetings weekly. + Evaluate all customer returns. + Initiate corrective action when appropriate. + Initiate sample travel and maintain all associated documentation. + Locate and expedite samples through the foundry/finishing process, capturing all needed process documentation. + Communicate with Technical Director when parts needing PPAP or revision change confirmation are ready for X-ray, Layout, etc. + Assure all process details are loaded into the AS-400 system after sample approval, utilizing all appropriate forms.

+ Member of the NJSU team. + Perform duties as outlined in Pre-Production process procedure.

Tooling Issues:

Communicate with pattern shops, Technical Director, or Sales Dept. as needed to expedite quotations, PO’s, etc.

5) Participate in continuous improvement team projects.

Direct Reports: Lab Technician

Quality Tech

Essential Functions:

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or touch, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk, reach above shoulders, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and use foot/feet to operate machine. The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move items that weigh anywhere from 10 lbs to 50 lbs and occasionally lift items that weigh up to 100 pounds with the assistance of a hoist or crane. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.