Material & Process Engineer III
Moog - Torrance, CA
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work. The Material & Process Engineer III position is based in Torrance, California, and involves performing engineering tasks of moderate to high scope and complexity, focusing on applying the language and basic principles of Material & Process Engineering (M&PE). The role supports internal Moog global customer needs and aims to improve Moog product materials, analytical approaches, and special processing.
Responsibilities
- Monitor heat treatment operations to ensure compliance with internal procedures and customer requirements.
- Provide guidance to thermal processing shop personnel to meet requirements and specifications and maintain/create training and procedures on heat treatment and metallurgical related processes.
- Provide the technical expertise to disposition any production non-conformances related to the heat treat process.
- Develop and coordinate initiatives and activities to improve Moog product materials, analytical approaches, and special processing to meet the needs for global customers.
- Research and implement new heat treatment technologies for cost savings and process improvements.
- Development of technical training program for materials, processes, and analytical interpretation to assist the Operating Groups in meeting their objectives.
- Support long term, multi-site, process development and implementation of operating group projects. Propose, recommend and guide the implementation of process equipment solutions (typically less than $3M US) for operating groups.
- Assist with the recruitment, motivation, training, and development of staff to maintain an effective workforce capable of meeting M&PE objectives.
Requirements
- BS with 6 years related experience or MS with 4 years related experience (or equivalent) in Materials/Metallurgy, Industrial and Mechanical with extensive knowledge on steel heat treatment processes and equipment.
- Familiarity or experience with either chemical and heat treatment NADCAP compliance and with AMS 2750 pyrometry requirements and compliance.
- Strong fundamental knowledge of metallurgy and microstructures and familiar with material characterization and failure analysis techniques.
- Experience with vacuum furnaces, and vacuum carburizing processing plus machine controls and instrumentation.
- Capable of performing metallurgical testing.
- Experience interfacing with engineering, manufacturing, and production personnel.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with heat treatment
- Prior experience in the Aerospace field
Benefits
- Annual bonuses
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Open paid time off policy
- Region-specific benefits
