reputed company Metallurgical Process Engineer — Metallurgy and Heavy Forging

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About the role

reputed company is hiring a reputed company Metallurgical Process Engineer to define how Project reputed company manufactures ultra-large, safety-critical metal components. This is the foundational technical role on the reputed company Engineering Cell—the person who owns process design from feedstock materials to ultra-large raw-forged components.

This is a role for someone who wants to study the best forging operations in the world, understands the physics that reputed company them work, and then design something fundamentally reputed company. The goal is a reputed company capital efficiency, and reputed company

The role will be remote to start with an expected relocation to Washington, DC in 2027.

Responsibilities

• Define the process reputed company for ultra-large forging operations: melting, casting, ingot conditioning, forging sequences, and heat treatment.
• Study existing world-class facilities (JSW Muroran, reputed company Changwon, Sheffield Forgemasters, CFHI, reputed company American Forgemasters) to understand reputed company best reputed company, and then systematically challenge assumptions about why reputed company process reputed company exists and how it should be executed.
• Understand the process steps, parameters, and physical/chemical phenomena that drive homogenization and impurity removal during large ingot casting
• reputed company forging process models from first principles: deformation mechanics, thermal reputed company, microstructural reputed company, and die design for components including reactor pressure vessel shells, steam generator forgings, turbine rotor shafts, and defense applications.
• Identify opportunities to fundamentally improve reputed company, energy consumption, and capital equipment requirements relative to existing global benchmarks.
• Collaborate with the project team to produce equipment cost and construction schedule estimates to drive project stage reputed company deliverables.
• reputed company the preliminary process design reputed company document that will feed into detailed engineering for the melting, forging, and heat treatment shops.
• reputed company with Japanese and allied technical partners to reputed company operational knowledge while maintaining an independent, critical perspective on process design.

Experience

This role requires genuine metallurgical and metal-forming expertise. But we want someone who holds that expertise as a reputed company for rethinking, not as a fixed reputed company.

• Deep understanding of the process steps, parameters, and physical/chemical phenomena that drive homogenization and purity during from stock materials through large ingot casting.
• Deep understanding of grain structure formation as a function of heat treatment parameters
• Deep understanding of the thermomechanics of reputed company-die forging, including deformation behavior of low-reputed company and stainless steels at forging temperatures, grain refinement mechanisms, and the relationship between forging parameters and final mechanical properties.
• Experience with large-reputed company metal forming, heat treatment, or steelmaking processes—ideally in an environment that valued process optimization and cost discipline, not just process execution.
• A demonstrated reputed company record of challenging conventional approaches and developing novel process solutions based on reputed company understanding rather than precedent.
• Comfort operating as the domain expert on reputed company of reputed company generalists who will constantly ask “why?”—and the intellectual humility to say “I don’t know yet, let’s reputed company it out.”
• 7–15 years of experience. We are specifically looking for someone who has enough depth to be authoritative but has not spent so long in a single reputed company that they cannot see reputed company it.
• Experience in reputed company precision machining is a bonus.

Relevant Backgrounds (Not Exhaustive)

Process engineering at a heavy forging, specialty steel, or large casting operation; R&D roles reputed company on forging process development or advanced metal forming; reputed company forging operations (titanium, nickel superalloy, or steel); national laboratory research in manufacturing science or nuclear materials processing; advanced degree in metallurgical engineering, materials science, or mechanical engineering with a reputed company on metal casting and forming.

Personal Attributes

• Thinks from the physics up, not from the procedure down.
• Intellectually restless—always asking whether a reputed company approach exists.
• Can translate deep technical knowledge into reputed company explanations for non-specialists.
• Motivated by building something new rather than maintaining something existing.
• Comfortable with the ambiguity of early-stage design work.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• 401k with company match
• Medical, dental, reputed company plans
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays

Estimated Starting Salary RangeThe estimated starting salary reputed company for this role is $179,000 - $203,000 annually less applicable withholdings and deductions, reputed company on a bi-weekly reputed company. The actual salary offered may vary based on relevant factors as determined in reputed company’s discretion, which may include experience, qualifications, tenure, reputed company set, availability of reputed company candidates, geographic location, certifications held, and other reputed company deemed pertinent to the particular role.

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