Process Engineer - Casting

Join a team that supports some of the most exciting industries on the planet—aerospace and space exploration—by keeping our legacy facility running at peak performance. We’re seeking a Facilities/Industrial Engineer who’s ready to be hands-on with our infrastructure, tackle real-world challenges, and drive improvements that directly impact our ability to serve our global customers.

Arconic is seeking a Process Engineer to join our Aluminum Casting business unit in Lafayette, IN.

The primary purpose of this role is to be responsible for capital improvements and assisting with production uptime.

Essential Functions: The Process Engineer within AEX requires technical and interpersonal skills essential to teamwork.  Major duties include but are not limited to: 

• Translate customer and industry standards into a process design, Control Plans, FMEA, and production work instructions, and ensure accurate execution.  Measure initial success and monitor ongoing results in process management to continually improve our products and processes.
• Troubleshoot, design and execution of experiments to develop processes and products.
• Support involves using Metallurgy/Material Science experience and classroom knowledge to develop improvement plans for the process to ensure customer satisfaction and drive cost reduction.
• Determining impact and process control for equipment and operations that affect product quality
• Daily duties are performed in a “hands on” environment and include, but are not limited to, providing on-call response to implement reaction plans, and restore flow, as well as developing and implementing root cause solutions to prevent problem recurrence.
• Providing day-to-day technical advice, problem solving and support to operations and maintenance by applying quality systems and engineering principles, ABS and reliability tools to drive problems to root cause.
• Initiating and/or implementing improvement projects to eliminate safety and quality concerns, reducing cost, and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Provide input to improve uptime and equipment reliability, and adherence to regulatory and Arconic EHS requirements.
• Working closely with production, quality, engineering, and maintenance to upgrade existing equipment, perform repairs, and install new machinery.
• Applying root cause problem solving (troubleshooting) techniques to find and eliminate sources of recurring equipment failures through creative, cost-effective solutions.
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation for new and existing processes and procedures in the assigned work area.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Material Science, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, from an accredited institution.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in billet and slab casting, aluminum melting, and processing.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

• This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. §730, et seq.) and/or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Qualified candidate must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the relevant government agency. Business demands may require employer to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology,

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree
• 2 years’ experience as a Process Engineer in an aluminum downstream manufacturing environment.
• Quality system experience (IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 17025, ANSI, ISO14001).
• Lean manufacturing experience.
• Experience with heat treatment / annealing processes. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
• Effective quality problem solving skills to the root cause and the ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply quality systems, basic statistical techniques, metrology, inspection and test methods.
• Capable and effective at being able to communicate the principles of quality systems, process management and statistical tools in a user-friendly manner to manufacturing personnel.
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office, Statistical Data analysis packages such as Minitab, Spotfire)

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