Section Manager Quality

Summary Of Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with and provide leadership for safety, quality, and environmental standards.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a team environment, utilizing clear and effective communication skills.
• Work closely with operations, engineering, maintenance and other technical resources to drive results.
• Maintain Quality System including A2LA accreditation and IATF certifications.
• Provide metallurgical and technical support for product and process improvement through data analysis, problem solving, expertise in area of responsibility, metallurgical and mechanical concepts, and knowledge of customer operations and markets.
• Support the Chemical Laboratories with specialist and technician resources, equipment and direction to provide product analysis for coke, sinter, iron, steel and finished products.
• Manage the review and disposition of all daily heat and slab production.
• Lead effort with planning and sales to improve slab velocity by identifying prime orders to which prime and distressed slab inventory can be applied.
• Verify slab quality through the engineers and technicians using macroetch techniques, chemical sampling and surface inspection of slab production using daily audits.
• Direct resources in the development and maintenance of all steel grades produced or purchased for rolling at Burns Harbor.
• Recommend and implement new technologies to satisfy changing customer and marketplace demands.
• Provide technical solutions to internal and external customers by understanding manufacturing and product capability.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical or Material Science
• 6 years or more of experience with manufacturing processes
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to operate effectively within a team-oriented, fast-paced environment
• Prominent verbal and written communication, analytical, organizational, and time management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior managerial experience in an industrial or related environment
• 10 years or more of experience dealing with manufacturing processes
• Experience in manufacturing materials, preferably metals
• Ability to drive results across multiple departments