Metallurgical Engineer Resume Examples

Chief Metallurgical Engineer/assistant Mill Manager/air Quality Control Coordinator

Responsible for Analytical (process control) Laboratory. Acted as Mill Manager in his absence. Responsible for plant metallurgical efficiencies and metallurgical accounting. Handled air quality issues for the plant, including "Notices of Intent", public hearings, coordination with State Air Quality personnel and compliance testing.

• Improved plant uranium and vanadium recoveries by 4% and 20%, respectively.
• Implemented and performed isokinetic stack sampling.
• Managed successful environmental remediation of air quality emission (Re-carbonation Tower, etc.) problems.
• Identified state tax credit provision for pollution prevention modifications, researched and submitted application and received refund check of $212,000 for the company.
• Designed and directed construction and start-up of an ion exchange system for treating mine water discharge.
• Participated on Design Team for the "Bullfrog" uranium mill.

Metallurgical Engineer

Provided metallurgical and materials engineering services to a wide range of clients, principally companies related to the oil and gas and chemical industries. Services included failure analysis, materials selection and client education.

• Analyzed and wrote reports on over 100 failures per year. Failures involved internal and external corrosion, hydrogen-induced cracking, fatigue, mechanical damage, application issues, installation or service irregularities, manufacturing defects and combinations of these.
• Specified mechanical testing, chemical analysis and non-destructive testing (NDT/NDE) of materials and components and reviewed the results.
• Examined samples with a scanning electron microscope and metallurgical microscopes.
• Developed and maintained client relationships.
• Standards and specifications most commonly used were ASTM, American Petroleum Institute (API), National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) and ASME.

Principal Metallurgical Engineer

Managed raw material suppliers for four North American, Mexican and Brazilian Plants.

• Assisted purchasing and quality with supplier issues that resulted in cost savings of $250K per year.
• Prepared and maintained material and process specifications for Americas, achieving consistent quality and pricing between different operational units that resulted in 15% reduction in quality issues.
• Provided support for forming operations at Cleveland Plant, reducing temperature variation and providing better lubrication that resulted in a reduction of seam defects by 28% and a cost savings of 400K per year.

Global / International Metallurgical Engineer

Global Metallurgist for product development, manufacturing and quality teams for Automotive Electronic Products by providing Analysis of electronic interconnects (Failure, Production Problems, etc.) to improve product quality and robustness

• Coordinated the setup of a Materials Lab in Mexico with training of 11 Materials Engineers and Technicians to increase productivity of process verifications and failure analyses
• Provided detailed interconnect analyses and corrective actions for multiple Automotive Electronic Mfg products DVs + PVs to minimize potential processing issues, to reduce PPM levels and to ensure successful product launches.
• Over 75 Internal Publications

Metallurgical Engineering Intern Associate - Quality Department

• Achieved 70% increase in product coil delivery rate by streamlining motor lamination testing procedure.
• Resolved surface blistering defects on 100s of electrogalvanized steel coils via root cause failure analysis.
• Coordinated and performed gage R&R studies to standardize test equipment throughout the mill.

Metallurgical Engineer

Croix Refinery (500,000BPD, 79,494m3/d). Inspection Department

• Trained HOVENSA Inspectors in API Risk Based Inspection methodology. This included a classroom review of the API RBI process from a technical standpoint as well as software training. Hand-on software ever-greening, in terms of inspection report grading following turnaround activities, was also covered for future turn around planning and scope development.
• Managed HOVENSA'S Thickness Monitoring Location Optimization Program. The program served as a platform for conducting semi-quantitative / semi-qualitative risk assessments of process piping for the purpose of reducing redundant thickness monitoring locations. The program scope included 78 process units.
• Named Refinery Employee of the Quarter of 2,200 employees (Q4 2007) for assisting with refinery wide budget planning pertaining to the management of pressure boundary mechanical integrity.

Metallurgical Engineer

Worked directly with internal and external customers to meet their needs.

• Hands on experience analyzing a wide array of samples.
• Visually examined samples using stereoscopes, microscopes, and an SEM.
• Developed innovative induction heat-treating techniques to meet customer specifications.
• Wrote comprehensive metallurgical reports.
• Worked on a cross-development team to develop a process which is used to induction surface harden and temper crankshafts for General Motors. The new and innovative non-rotational process we developed lead to the successful sale of four Inductoheat Crankpro machines for the sum of 2.7 million dollars.

Metallurgical Engineer I

Managed charge recipes and inventories of charge materials

• Performed Manufacting Engineer duties for casting hardness department and metallurgical lab
• Completed root-cause analysis reports of non-conforming or field-failure castings. Communicated these results to quality engineers and design engineers, also providing technical support to eliminate re-occurances.
• Wrote and managed metallurgcial process/quality documents
• Trained and annually re-certified shop floor employees on processes which were tied to quality

Metallurgical Engineer-intern

• Researched and implemented a design process to reduce ladle shell temperatures
• Managed and directed new trials to improve steel casting
• Ran both inclusion analysis and SEM sample preparation for investigation
• Worked in each area of the mill to fully understand steelmaking process
• Assisted in day to day floor operations as well as engineering decision making

Metallurgical Engineer

• Completed 50+ metallurgical lab requests supporting R&D and Design Engineering teams with specialization in failure analyses of customer returned products
• Acted as one of lead operators for mechanical testing, specializing in universal and fatigue tests
• Experienced in metallographic sample prep and microstructure evaluation
• Supported 6S and Continuous Improvement tasks for lab organization