Senior Engineer - Heat & Surface Treatment

About the role

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next‑gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match. The Senior Engineer – Heat & Surface Treatment serves as Hagerstown’s technical specialist for heat treatment and surface technologies. This role drives process innovation, capability, quality, and reliability across heat treatment, induction hardening, shot peening, coatings, and surface finishing. The position provides technical leadership for complex manufacturing challenges and partners with Operations, Metallurgy, Quality, Maintenance, suppliers, and Volvo’s global technical network to advance sustainable, world‑class manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Hagerstown’s technical specialist for heat treatment and surface technologies.
• Lead improvements in heat treatment, induction hardening, shot peening, coating, and surface finishing.
• Drive process innovation, capability, quality, and reliability toward world‑class performance.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and failure analysis using metallurgical and data‑driven methods.
• Develop and implement state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing solutions and process technologies.
• Provide technical leadership for new products, equipment investments, and process changes.
• Partner with Operations, Metallurgy, Quality, Maintenance, suppliers, and Volvo’s global technical network to deliver results.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that improve machining performance, including advanced analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or a related field. A degree in Mechanical Engineering may be considered with strong heat‑treatment and metallurgy experience. Five or more years of relevant experience in heat treatment, metallurgy, or surface engineering. Strong knowledge of ferrous metallurgy and industrial heat‑treatment processes. Demonstrated ability to independently solve complex manufacturing and metallurgical problems.

Qualifications

Advanced knowledge of ferrous metallurgy, heat‑treatment processes, and surface‑engineering technologies. Understanding of manufacturing process capability, quality, reliability, and failure‑analysis methods. Knowledge of emerging manufacturing technologies, including advanced process controls, automation, analytics, and Industry 4.0 concepts. Metallurgical and data‑driven troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills. Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor complex technical information to the audience. Collaboration and stakeholder‑management skills across manufacturing, technical, supplier, and global teams. Technical leadership skills for new products, equipment investments, and process changes. Ability to take ownership, work independently, and involve others when appropriate. Ability to combine technical depth, data, and production input to make sound decisions. Ability to welcome different perspectives, respond constructively to feedback, and adapt to new ways of working. Ability to challenge existing methods, share knowledge, and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Preferred qualifications: Experience with advanced process controls, automation, analytics, or Industry 4.0 technologies. Experience implementing innovative manufacturing or process technologies in an industrial environment.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Generous paid time off.
• Competitive matching retirement savings plans.
• Working environment where your safety, health and wellbeing come first.
• Focus on professional and personal development through Volvo Group University.
• Programs that make today’s challenging reality of combining work and personal life easier.

Pay

For this position, the base pay is set at $96,000 - $118,500 annually, and where applicable, bonus eligible. The range for this role, as well as final salary offered, is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, work‑related knowledge, certifications, skills, education, and experience. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.