Senior Tungsten Engineer

The Senior Tungsten Engineer manages the global Tungsten investment for the organization. This requires working closely with raw material suppliers, external machine shop on tooling priorities and machining quality, and global furnace teams to ensure set-up levels are adequate and that the furnaces are producing a quality product. The role will serve as the lead for the strategic project to develop machining capability internally and will provide leadership to direct reports within the machining center.

• New set-up design including assembly and part drawings, machining and fabrication instructions.
• Existing set-up support ordering, refurbishing and/or modifying existing tungsten inventory.
• Partner with the commodity manager in the negotiations with tool fabricating vendors and suppliers, quotes, vendor approval, vendors interface during fabrication.
• Physical inspection of completed set-ups.
• Complete root cause investigations and corrective actions as needed on tungsten-related furnace failures.
• Responsible for yearly investment budget for all tungsten investment and ensuring that capital and expense budgets are maintained.
• Integrate all critical documents into quality management system.
• Create/update standard operating procedures for all Tungsten processes and generate safety job instructions.
• Participate in new tool design reviews; Manage all engineering test requests and management of change process, both internally and externally.
• Manage new Tungsten set-ups cradle-to-grave.
• Create the RFQ's; send to venders for tooling and capital quotes, analyze the quotes, makes the recommendations to Purchasing.
• Develop contingency plan for single source operations and materials; manage validation plans for associated qualifications/changes with tungsten and associated changes.
• Communicates the quality requirements that are needed to meet expectations for furnace set-ups.
• Acts as main point of contact and provides technical support to external shops and manufacturing teams to troubleshoot and ensure the tooling & capital meets company standards.
• Manage scale up to higher volume manufacturing in the development project for internal machining.
• Oversee Furnace trials and testing relative to tungsten modifications to ensure accuracy of the test and results.

• BS degree in engineering or related field.
• Experience working with tungsten.
• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing work environment.
• Strong leadership and motivation skills within all layers of the business