Lead metallurgist

Role: Lead Metallurgist Location: West Yorkshire Salary Package: Highly Competitive Basic Salary + Industry Leading Benefits Package. Are you an experienced Metallurgist / Material Scientist? Are you looking for a new challenging project to work on? Would you like to be a part of a company that is experiencing extensive international growth? The company are a global engineering business supplying bespoke engineered products and engineered solutions to some of the largest manufacturing companies and defence contractors worldwide. Our Client: With a UK based Head Office, they have been trading for over 50 years with over 300 staff. The company focuses on industrial rotating equipment and drive units supplying every major sector. The company is going through sustained growth and offers an excellent career opportunity to work on new and exciting projects. Role: To provide support in the day to day inspection/ operational activities. Developing the laboratory and material acceptance processes within the laboratory. Provide technical assistance to both the procurement and heat treatment teams to ensure material/certification issues are quickly resolved. Liaise with other internal departments such as quality, engineering and production to help priorities. You will be responsible for: * Investigating and continuously improving methods for material certification * Verification of raw material bought out complete certification * Assisting the inspection / procurement teams where required with material certification Issues * Developing furnace programs extracting and retaining furnace charts * Managing engineering changes and up-issues of component drawings * Developing the laboratory departments equipment and facilities * Maintaining and updating internal departmental processes and procedures * Producing processing quotes for external customers for heat treatment * Carrying out hardness inspection methods - Vickers/Rockwell/Brinell * Performing and controlling site NDT processes i.e. MPI/Dye Pen /Ultrasonic X-ray interpretation Role Requirements: * Experience within a materials / metallurgical / heat treatment discipline * Interpretation of material certification in line with national and international standards and procedures. ( BS, BS EN, ISO, ASTM DEF STAN ). * NDT experience to PCN / SNT. * HNC/HND or equivalent in material or metallurgical studies * Interpretation of material micro-structures from prepared heat-treatment samples (Microscopy). * Problem solving relating shop floor issues caused by internal heat-treatment / metallurgical causes (distortion control / hardness problems / machinability / micro- structural). * Knowledge of material selection properties in relation to gear manufacture (Carbon-grade steels). * Be able to maintain and update company / departmental processes and procedures. * Be capable of liaising with internal departments / external customers and suppliers. * Be used to working to company quality / health and safety procedures. If you are interested in finding out more please apply now and one of our consultants will be in touch to discuss the role in more detail