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Job Posting Title
Sr. Metallurgist - SQE
Job Description Summary
Candidate with high level of proficiency in Metallurgy and heat treat process. Should have the ability to assess various heat treat, foundry and forging suppliers. Works well in teams and can represent AAM well.
Job Description
Position Description
This purpose of this role is to manage and develop suppliers. This role is critical to meeting objectives to improve Launch Performance, Current Model Quality.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Conduct heat treat, foundry, forging supplier assessments - Experienced in conducting CQI9 audits.
- Work with suppliers to develop continuous improvement plans and metrics to monitor performance and continuously improve quality and process and achieve cost reduction targets
- Interface with Customers on critical supplier issues as necessary
- Assist suppliers in problem solving effectiveness including root cause analysis through implementation of corrective actions
- Have the ability to train other SQEs & engineers.
- Benchmark heat treating technology throughout the world
- Lead supplier APQP kick-off meetings and supplier design reviews
- Active member in the AAM Sourcing Committee
- Participate, as needed, on AAM Teams and effectively interact with other AAM technical departments and Assembly Plant personnel to find creative solutions to constraints
- This position requires travel - approximately (50 - 60)% (mostly domestic)
Required Skills and Education
- BS Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology or Metallurgy
- Minimum 5 years experience with heat treat processes and equipment.
- Understands interpretation and application of global quality standards (ISO-9001 & IATF-19649, and VDA 6.3)
- Must be highly motivated, able to multi-task, set priorities and be goal oriented
- Must have a proven ability to lead functional teams, work independently and obtain goal-oriented results; computer literacy; a high level of independent judgment and strong negotiation; communications; analytical and leadership skills
- Ability to represent AAM to outside suppliers and Customers in a professional manner on technical issues.
About American Axle & Manufacturing
For over 20 years, customers around the world have entrusted AAM to design, engineer, validate and manufacture driveline, metal forming, powertrain, and casting technologies for automotive, commercial and industrial markets. Today, we are a premier global Tier 1 automotive supplier with broad capabilities across multiple product lines to deliver efficient, powerful and innovative solutions for our customers. We've earned the trust of our suppliers and our customers through our steadfast commitments to quality, operational excellence and technology leadership.
AAM delivers power. We deliver power literally through vehicle components, systems and innovation, but we also deliver power in ways unseen. We power our associates, their families, and the communities in which we operate. Our global team of over 25,000 associates has a clear vision of where AAM is going and how we are going to get there. After all, they are the reason we are a leader in the automotive industry. We are powering the future. We are AAM. Move with us, and join #TeamAAM.
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AAM will not discriminate against any Associate or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. AAM will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that Associates are treated equally during employment, without regard to their age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law.
