Metallurgist

Overview

Steel Dynamics, Inc. is the third-largest carbon steel producer in the U.S. and is one of the top steel recyclers. A Fortune 500 Company, SDI is repeatedly recognized for being an industry leader, from Forbes 2021 "World's Best Employers" to Fortune's "World's Most Admired Companies". SDI continues to push to be the industry leader and gold standard for corporate governance.

The Long Products Division, Steel of West Virginia is expanding and adding positions across the Division. There is an immediate opening for a Plant Metallurgist.

We offer competitive pay, profit sharing, 401(k), health insurance and stock options.

Responsibilities

• Development of standards, technical instructions and procedures in order to ensure that all metallurgical activities are in alignment with customer requirements. Keep plant current with required lab submissions for various audits and monthly reporting.

• Provide detail manufacturing support via the analysis of metallurgical quality issues for steel and establish appropriate resolution for optimizing plant processes, including those which inhibit product flow, as well as troubleshooting metallurgical processes.

• Exercise authority and responsibility to hold suspect product and to stop production equipment from producing unsatisfactory product.

• Manage the disposition of questionable product, interpret product metallurgical characteristics and make decisions on corrective actions and deviations needs as a result of product not meeting customer standards.

• Analyze process audit and customer feedback results in correlation with process capability and Corporate standards periodically and proactively establish preventative and/or corrective actions.

• Lead metallurgical laboratory functions including the coordination of the lab activities and supervision including day-to-day direction and support of the lab technicians.

• Provide/administer all metallurgical training needed for associates to understand and perform their job functions.

• Utilize own knowledge base to identify, develop and carry out project ideas for the overall improvement of quality, performance, and/or cost structure. Examples: reducing scrap/rework, improve process efficiency without compromising product quality. This includes follow-up with other team members to achieve stated project goals.

• Provide technical knowledge of product to designer for existing, new and prototype product.

Qualifications

We are seeking someone with a bachelor's degree or higher in materials or metallurgical engineering. We would prefer someone with experience with customer order inquiries, technical specifications and complaint resolution.

Steel Dynamics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.