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Manager of Corporate Metallurgy
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Location: Oxford
Job type: Permanent
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RBC Bearings is a well known international manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered precision plain, roller and ball bearings. We have been providing bearing solutions to our customers since 1919. Over the past ten years, under the leadership of our current management team, RBC Bearings has significantly broadened our end markets, products, customer base and geographic reach. We currently have 31 facilities, of which 28 are manufacturing facilities in five countries. Our selling efforts are supported by a global network of sales engineers, distributors and authorized agents.
DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for a corporate level, technological leader in metallurgy and materials science who is a hands-on, team player. The person will be expected to act as consultant and metallurgical expert to all divisions of RBC, as necessary, responding to queries about materials, material acceptability, specifications, failure investigations, material performance improvements and material quality issues both internal and with our supplier base. The successful applicant will be expected to take a leadership role in material development as RBC expands its current product offering into new applications with structural and environmental challenges beyond our current knowledge-base and capability. The candidate is required to have excellent inter personal and communication skills, be a team player that is driven to succeed within in a fast paced, challenging, and demanding environment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB:
* New Product Development: Research and Development of performance enhancing materials and material heat treatments.
* Design: Support RBC engineers on materials selection and evaluation, testing, fabrication, heat treatment, and plating.
Manufacturing: Support the evaluation of material quality, obtain and maintain NADCAP heat treat accreditation where required, consult and assist with internal/external customer concerns regarding product quality, customer audits and approvals, materials and testing, failure analysis, destructive testing, procedures, evaluation of vendors for heat treating and plating.
* Metallurgical Analysis: Improve existing metallurgical laboratory and maintain a list of vendors that can provide services outside of the labs capabilities.
* Manage Corporate Metallurgy Function: Conduct bi-weekly department update meetings, coordinate the projects of two Fellow level metallurgists with more than 80 years combined experience, and oversee a lab. Technician.
* Oxford Heat Treat Department: Technically oversee and support a newly implemented heat treat department within the Oxford, CT, manufacturing facilities.
EDUCATION:
* BS/MS/PhD in Metallurgy, or Metallurgical Engineering, or Materials Science.
* 10 + years of related experience.
EXPERIENCE:
* Expertise in metallurgy, thermal processing, machining, chemical processing, plating, stress relieving, material standards, material processing and potential process changes affecting material performance.
* Keen knowledge of the causes of fatigue and failure of metals, especially -- but not limited to – the field of bearings.
* Anticipate travel requirements to various customers, suppliers, and RBC facilities of approximately 25%.
RBC Bearings offers a competitive benefit package.
RBC Bearings is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Bachelors or better in Engineering.
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Masters or better in Engineering.
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10-15 years:
Metallurgy
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