Asst. Manager - Heat treatment (A swedish owned company)

Role & responsibilities

• Optimize heat treatment cycles to achieve specified mechanical and metallurgical properties.
• Monitor and improve product yield by minimizing distortion, cracking, decarburization, oxidation, and rejections during heat treatment.
• Develop, implement, and periodically review Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Control Plans, Process Flow Charts, and Work Instructions for standardized heat treatment operations.
• Establish and monitor critical process parameters such as furnace temperature, soaking time, quenching media, cooling rates, and atmosphere control.
• Conduct material characterization including metallography, microstructure evaluation, hardness testing, tensile testing, impact testing, case depth measurement, and grain size analysis.
• Perform steel material analysis to verify chemical composition, heat treatment response, and compliance with customer specifications and international standards.
• Investigate product failures and heat treatment defects through metallurgical analysis and implement effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). • Monitor furnace performance, calibration, temperature uniformity surveys (TUS), and system accuracy tests (SAT) to ensure process reliability and compliance.
• Prepare technical reports, metallurgical test reports, process capability studies, customer documentation, and management MIS for performance review.
• Support new product development by recommending suitable material grades, heat treatment processes, and validating product performance through metallurgical testing.

Preferred candidate profile

• Industry experience: Experience in Steel Metallurgy, Heat Treatment, Material Characterization.
• Educational requirement: B.E./B.Tech in Materials Science & Engineering / Metallurgical Engineering.
• Required experience: 5 to 7 years.
• Heat Treatment Process Optimization