Overview In this role you will help design and build a new metal, alloy, and magnet-making facility, focusing on powder processing operations. You will coordinate with cross-functional teams to meet customer requirements and ensure safe, high-quality production. The position offers hands-on work with a broad set of processes, from powder production to final assembly, in a mission-driven, safety-conscious environment. You will contribute to process development, training, and technology transfer in a greenfield facility that supports the company's U.S. manufacturing transformation.
Responsibilities- Support powder processing operations to meet customer specifications
- Collaborate with procurement, vendors, maintenance, operators on equipment design, reviews, and commissioning
- Contribute to EHS risk assessments, HAZOP studies, and regulatory compliance
- Plan and assist with process development for hydrogen decrepitation, jet milling, dry grinding and powder blending
- Coordinate with NPI team for new process deployment at industrial scale
- Provide technical training on process knowledge to production teams
- Define process control plans by evaluating customer requirements with broader manufacturing teams
- Monitor key operating parameters to optimize yield, quality, and minimize EHS impacts
- Supervise quality control procedures to ensure stable powder processing operations
- Investigate and resolve equipment and quality issues in HD furnace, Jet Milling, and subprocesses with QA and customer service
- Document and support IP and patent filing activities
- Other duties as assigned
Key requirements- BS degree in Metallurgy/Materials Science, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or related field
- 3-5 years' experience in metal powder processing with industrial scale processes and equipment
- Solid understanding of powder metallurgy for part manufacturing and powder quality fundamentals (PSD, flowability, agglomeration)
- Experience gathering and tracking process control information (SPC)
- Strong problem-solving skills (FMEA, 8D, A3, Root Cause Analysis)
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Valid Driver's License and clean driving record
- effective communication
- team collaboration
- problem solving
- HD furnace operation
- Jet milling and dry grinding
- powder blending
