Manufacturing Metallurgist

Job Description
Job Description POSITION: Forging Engineer LOCATION: Jupiter, FL.
STATUS: Salary Exempt

Job Summary: Seeking a Forging Engineer with basic knowledge of wrought, formed, and forged steel, cobalt, and nickel alloys. This includes understanding the effects of manufacturing processing and heat treatment on properties.

Essential duties & responsibilities
The essential functions of the job include the following:
Review and execute approval of special manufacturing processes that have metallurgical requirements
Material related non-conformance assessments and dispositions
Root cause analysis
Gas turbine material selection: Stainless steel, low carbon steel, nickel, and cobalt alloys for components throughout the gas turbine. This includes:
Forgings, sheet metal, plate, bar
Responsible for material and process qualification specification creation and revisions
Other duties as assigned

Education & Training
~ Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical or Materials Engineering, or related field

Skills/Experience

• 2+ years of experience with metal alloys used for gas turbines preferred
• 2+ years Experience conducting evaluations of microstructure and defects
• Available for travel to suppliers for qualification review and audits as needed
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite software
• Must be a detail-oriented, high energy, self-starter with the ability to drive the successful completion of projects within specified time frames
• Process and team-oriented; able to work with a diverse workforce
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Trustworthy, quick learning, innovative and reliable
• Metallurgical lab evaluation technique experience preferred
• Familiar with commercial material specifications – domestic and international
• Able to interpret engineering prints
• Knowledge of welding / brazing processes preferred
• Knowledge of protective coatings for gas turbine components preferred
• Investment casting process

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled