Product Engineer Team Leader - IGT

Product Engineer Team Leader - IGT

Howmet Aerospace, Howmet Aerospace (HES) is a world-class producer of aero engine and industrial gas turbine components, including airfoils, rings, disks and forgings. We excel in vacuum melted superalloys, machining, performance coatings and hot isostatic pressing for high performance parts that enable the next generation of quieter, more fuel-efficient aero engines and cleaner power generation. Howmet Engine Systems is a business unit of Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM).

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Howmet Engine Systems is currently seeking an experienced Operations professional to join our team in Hampton, Virginia. Are you an empowered Lead Team Partner with the drive to transform ideas into sustainable value? We are seeking individuals who have a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a manufacturing environment, as well as the passion to put that experience to work to lead activities and support plant/location team to achieve manufacturing excellence. Our organization is dedicated to rapid, profitable growth through operational excellence and career development. If you are an energetic professional that wants to be a part of a dynamic team, we encourage you to apply.

Job Summary

As a Product Engineering Team Leader, you will be responsible for all dimensional characteristics and tooling pertaining to the investment casting process and our products. This may involve both new development and production castings. In this role you will be teamed up with a Process Engineer Team Leader who will be responsible for the metallurgical aspects of the process. The prime responsibility for this position is to engineer the highest yield and lowest overall cost product while meeting or exceeding all customer defined quality requirements. In this position you will work in a team environment with other engineers as well as hands on with the manufacturing team so strong communication skills are required. You will have a team of Product Engineers reporting to you that you will lead guide and mentor to achieve the above stated goals.

Essential Functions and Job Responsibilities

• Follow Howmet's Safety Regulations
• Oversee manufacturing tooling design, construction, and implementation.
• Optimize dimensional and core related yields at minimum manufacturing cost
• Create manufacturing routing and processing instructions
• Develops and debugs processes for production and developmental castings.
• Actively pursues the continuous improvement of existing processes.
• Supplies technical support to customers. Interacts with them regarding technical concerns
• Must comply with all company attendance policies and guidelines; this includes, but is not limited to, regular attendance and some overtime.
• Must manage your team to deliver the above stated goals so excellent communication and leadership skills are required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

Education:

This position requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in Engineering (Preferably Mechanical) or a non-engineering four-year degree with equivalent work-related experience.

Skills and Abilities:

Reads, analyzes, and interprets technical procedures. Effectively write reports, business correspondence, and procedures. Presents information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Strong communication skills are required. The ability to effectively work with all levels of the organization to achieve your goals are required.

This employee must be self-motivated to continue to drive improvement in their assigned portfolio of parts.

Leadership skill is required as you will be responsible for the recruitment, development, and performance of your engineering team (consisting of 4-8 Product Engineers)

Experience:

Technical manufacturing experience preferred but not required.

Technical Leadership Experience is preferred but not required.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in Engineering (Preferably Mechanical) experience.
• 5 years of technical experience
• Must be able to provide documentation in the original form establishing both your identity and your employment eligibility in the U.S.
• This position entails access to export-controlled items you must be able to lawfully obtain access to such items.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from an accredited college or university.
• Investment casting experience
• Solid Works and NX CAD proficient
• Minitab/statistics knowledge and strong Excel capabilities
• Technical Leadership experience is preferred