Commonwealth Rolled Products is a leading manufacturer of Aluminum rolled products for the Automotive, Commercial, and Industrial markets. The Company operates its production facility in Lewisport, KY with the support of an Automotive Innovation Center for R&D, Sales and Field Service in Madison Heights (DET), and Inside Sales in the Cleveland, OH area.

Our Innovation Center is seeking to add a talented Casting Metallurgist to its Product and Process Quality team in Lewisport, KY. The purpose of this role is to hold, improve and transfer knowledge of processes and quality, responsible for process improvement & assurance, support product implementation, define and start up new investments and processes. The key responsibility is to develop and implement all process and quality settings to ensure a robust process that delivers right first time quality.

Responsibilities Include:

• Always work in a safe manner; within the policies and procedures of Commonwealth Rolled Products-Lewisport, and the Technical and Casting Areas
• Live and champion the Commonwealth Rolled Products core values: Safety, Integrity, Customer Focus, Ownership, Excellence, and Teamwork
• Perform the work assigned by the Casting and Technical Managers within expected guidelines
• Operate in such a way that helps develop and maintain within the Casting Departments, a climate of mutual respect, effective working relationships, teamwork, and commitment to Continuous Improvement
• Coach and mentor the area technicians and supervisors on casting best practices while implementing sustainable solutions
• Keep up to date on new technologies and look for opportunities to implement in the Lewisport casthouses
• Provide metallurgical advice and more-formalized training on metallurgical topics as needed to advance employee understanding of Casting process
• Drives the pursuit of a perfect process within their area but not letting perfect delay better. A perfect process produces world classes quality both efficiently and profitably.
• Responsible for the definition of all process settings which must be used to ensure stable and robust quality in efficient processes
• Identify and lead capability improvement projects
• Lead major quality improvement projects taking into account safety, costs and environmental constraints, as well as the effects on subsequent installations
• Support quality and efficiency improvement projects from other departments (production, technical services, six sigma)
• Initiate and verify process changes and validate all process changes within primary assigned installation following MOC and change management
• Assist production, when necessary, to perform root cause analysis or trouble shooting in a structured way to solve internal and external non conformities
• Accountable for implementation of corrective actions in relevant processes resulting from claims and non-conformities
• Partner with production and maintenance in casting
• Manage process settings through several hundreds of parameters in department to ensure stable and capable processes
• Responsible for the setup of a system of process control of all relevant sub processes to ensure stable performance in time
• Takes initiative in continuous learning and development within functional area
• Responsible to deliver the input for R&D developments on the industrialization status
• Maintain and ensure compliance with inter-departmental quality contracts and specifications

Key Deliverables:

• Products and materials
  o General metallurgical knowledge about the products produced in the plant
  o Detailed knowledge on thermo-mechanical & physical processing for casting.
  o Understanding of quality assurance and systems
• New product implementation
  o Support Product Technology or to the R&D implementation department to ensure fast and robust introduction of new specifications or products.
  o Checks and refreshes the installation bible(s) and capabilities.
• Investments
  o Start up and commissioning support of new instillations and processes
  o Detects the need for new investments or processes to improve quality or robustness.
  o Defines process requirements, prepares and follows up the startup of, and verifies results from new investments or processes.
• Assigned area systems knowledge:
  o Determined based on area of focus
  o Specific controls systems
  o Automation, mechanical and electrical specialties for area

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree minimum in Metallurgical, Chemical or Materials Engineering
• 3+ years relevant experience
• Quality assurance and/or quality systems experience
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Technical and process management skills are needed in this position, with potential ability to work multiple projects simultaneously
• Must possess strong decision making and problem solving skills including the ability to solve problems while exhibiting practical judgment and realistic understanding of the issues involved
• Ability to overcome obstacles and find reasonable resolutions to situations on a case by case basis as encountered
• Has a profound knowledge of all processes of assigned installation - Mechanical & hydraulics, Chemical, Physical, Electrical & controls, Measurement systems, IT platforms (level 1– 3), and Thermo-mechanical processing capabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Casting Aluminum experience
• Experience in a union environment
• Six sigma green belt or black belt
• Knowledge and demonstrated use of Quality tools; i.e. 8D, PPS, DMAIC, PDCA, A3, 5S, Value Stream and Cause Mapping, Visual Management, etc.

EEO Statement

Commonwealth Rolled Products is an equal opportunity employer and supports diversity in the workplace. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Our HR teams will reach out to the applicants who met the qualifications and most closely aligned with requirements of the positions.