Welding Engineer Senior

Title: Senior Welding Engineer

Position type Direct Hire

Shift: 8:00am to 5:00pm. (Monday through Friday)

Location: Glendale AZ 85307

Summary

• The Senior Welding Engineer in manufacturing uses expertise on a variety of complex manufacturing issues to increase the capabilities to produce products.
• Designs improves and installs integrated systems in the introduction of new products to the manufacturing environment.
• Directly impacts all aspects of safety quality delivery cost and innovation as well as the sustaining and growth efforts of operations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and approve welding and/ or brazing techniques procedures and applications of associated equipment in the manufacturing process.
• Monitor and troubleshoot weld and vacuum braze issues and support process yield improvement efforts.
• Prepare and evaluate metallurgical samples to validate the process for production implementation.
• Provide technical guidance related to welding and metallurgy to design manufacturing and quality engineers as well as manufacturing floor associates and supervisors.
• Work with the Quality team to create and coordinate testing activities and reporting requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise on welding and heat treatmentrelated issues to the Manufacturing Engineering team.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to develop and test new welding methods processes and procedures.
• Collaborate with Product Engineers in the design and development of new products.
• Work with Manufacturing and Engineering to determine potential applications for welding for future technology savings to meet customer requirements.
• Develop procedures and work instructions related to the welding process based on best practice methods.
• Engage in continuous improvement activities to improve throughput and machine uptime.
• Lead structured problemsolving events to improve firstpass yield.
• Select and document appropriate welding equipment and settings.
• Communicate with other departments to coordinate activities eliminate problems and facilitate workflow.
• As a subject matter expert conduct training in weldingrelated matters.
• Engage in the welding industry to evaluate new developments in the welding field for possible application

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Engineering Materials Sciences Metallurgy or other related technical field with a focus on welding/heat treatment preferred.
• Year of experience: min 7 years of related experience

Required skills:

• Extensive experience with weld and surface treatment processes surface treatment technology and applications engineering.
• Detailed understanding of gas tungsten arc welding/tungsten inert gas process and variables.
• Knowledgeable in production specifications properties and characteristics of stainless steel and high nickel alloys.
• Experience with electron beam (EB) welding preferred.
• Detailed understanding of vacuum brazing and its variables.