Process Specialist- Element 13

About the Role

The Process Specialist will provide technical support for operations on shift, enforce procedures, enhance continuous improvement efforts, and enact necessary changes.

Responsibilities

• Perform on-shift procedural audits of both personnel and equipment.
• Identify SOP gaps and work with operations management to strengthen procedures.
• Act as an on-shift leader to support plant-wide safety initiatives.
• Coach and support casting personnel with regard to SOPs.
• Utilize process audit results to focus operator training in specific areas needing improvement.
• Expedite disposition of non-conforming material, including all required systems movements.
• Disposition key equipment as it is removed from active service.
• Perform quality critical testing, including both PreFil and LiMCA.
• Troubleshoot electro-magnetic casting (EMC) and direct chill (DC) casting issues.
• Utilize extensive process data systems to monitor and improve cast shop processes.
• Track and distribute long-term SPC trends for the operation.
• Collect quality-critical samples to be analyzed within the Constellium laboratory network.
• Lead cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve complex castability and process issues.
• Perform daily process data reviews with a goal of reducing process variability.

Requirements

• 4-year technical-related degree from an accredited university required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Metallurgy, Metallurgical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Engineering degree with 3-5 years' experience in a plant technical role or technical degree with 7 years’ experience, preferably in a heavy industry.
• Certification as an ASQ-CQE, CQA, or Six Sigma preferred.
• Must be able to write technical reports and transfer technical information into layman’s terms for complete communication.
• Ability to work with a broad cross-section of people, from top managers to hourly workforce and internal/external customers.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and establish appropriate priorities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong problem-solving, judgment, and critical-thinking skills.
• Aptitude for detailed work requiring a high degree of accuracy.
• Good communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to coach/develop others while demonstrating accountability and leading by example.
• Ability to work in extreme temperatures in a plant environment, often requiring extensive walking, moving about the plant, or standing for long periods.

About Constellium

Constellium Muscle Shoals is an aluminum manufacturing plant based in Alabama with over 1,200 employees. With its widest strip mill in the USA and a world-class recycling center, the site represents one of the largest within Constellium and is a world-class can recycling center, with the capacity to recycle nearly 20 billion cans per year. Muscle Shoals’ main product is aluminum can sheet for the packaging industry, particularly for beverage containers, manufacturing sheet used in all three components of an aluminum can: body stock, coated end stock, and tab stock. Additionally, Muscle Shoals supplies Auto Body Sheet substrate to Constellium’s Bowling Green, Kentucky, site.