**Career Area**:
Engineering
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**Test & Validation Associate Engineer**
**Role Definition**: Implements and improves testing, development and validation techniques, processes, tooling and machinery to maximize product quality.
**Responsibilities**:
- Resolving issues regarding the design or manufacturing. Ensuring design acceptance and manufacturing readiness.
- Participating in the adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement.
- Planning and improving testing procedures and operations to make the test more reliable, efficient, and cost-effective.
- Monitoring results, machine and process capabilities and performance reliability.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum or equivalent experience working in an Engineering function.
**Skill Descriptors**:
- **Analytical Thinking**:Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
- **Decision Making and Critical Thinking**: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
- **Project Management**: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
- **Product Testing**: Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure product quality at all stages of manufacturing.
- **Troubleshooting Technical Problems**: Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
- **Engineering Metallurgical Laboratory**:Performance analyses test, include Mechanical Testing as Surface hardening, Tensile and Impact test, Non-Destructive Testing and preparing material samples (grind, polish and etch) for metallographic examination, lead investigations on failure analysis and root cause corrective actions for Welding, Castings, Steel Mill products, Forging, PED and Heat Treat Process. Identify Alloys by chemical analysis, conduct Non-Destructive Testing as Ultrasonic, Magnetic Particles, dry and wet. Evaluate the performance of heat treatments, and ensure materials conform to required specifications. Root cause failure analysis services are also provided when performance issues occur with metal products. Developed Inspection plans for RAW Material and Purchased Material, PQR's Evaluation and create and update Work Instruction for Met Lab, HVOF samples evaluation, Acid Etch Test.
- **Engineering Process and Dimensional Heat Treat**:Process Control for Heat Treat equipment as Pusher and Batch furnaces, generators, Induction Machine, isotropic, shotblast, shoot peening, maintenance support, responsible for creation and update Standard and Work Instruction, SFMEA, training, HTIS recipes, emergency procedure and checklist, Include new startup equipment and Shoop Floor troubleshooting, optimization and improvements on safety, quality, Velocity and cost on all processes, support on rework organization of parts, load order, press cycle and disposition. Usage of statistical resources to analyze dimensions to have conformance in parts and NPI (Six Sigma tools), setup for recipe on HTIS, include tooling set up and tooling knowledge and control, standard work and work instructions, engineering meetings follow, and process change notifications.
**What You Have**:
- Completed degree in Metallurgical or Materials Engineering or related degree.
- Knowledge of quality control, operations, and Manufacturing and/or Heat Treatment processes
- Minimum experience of 3 years in Metallurgical Laboratory tests and/or Thermal Treatments.
- Effective communication skills with other work groups.
- Fluent in Both English and Spanish is required with good oral and written communication skills for reading manuals and specifications.
**Additional Details**:
- Knowledge of electric arc welding processes.
- Knowledge of any Non-Destructive Testing method (UT, MT, PT, VT, etc.)
- This position is in Monter