Metallurgist

Central Steel & Wire, part of the Ryerson family of companies, has an opportunity for a Metallurgist. As a Metallurist, you are responsible for ensuring the overall quality of materials sold and processes by Central Steel meet all customer specifications. You will support and promote plant-wide continuous improvement efforts by providing technical services and expertise with material properties and customer requirements.

The future will be made from metal. At Ryerson, you have the opportunity to grow in your career, work with teammates that feel like family, and help make our world a better place.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical assistance to customers by telephone, email, and on-site visits. This would include verbal presentations and interactions with customer’s engineering and plant personnel.
• Assist purchasing with drafting material specifications
• Provide technical support to Inside and Outside Sales groups as well as product knowledge training in small group meetings and one-on-one sessions
• Create all technical material requirements for the electronic grade control system at our Central Coil Processing facility.
• Perform in-house testing and coordinate all Independent Lab testing of samples submitted by customers when material complaints or requests for assistance arise
• Supervise and coordinate all clerical efforts with our electronic systems regarding the generation of Customer Test Reports. This would also include the electronic filing of and maintaining all producing mill test reports
• Supervise the coordination of responses to customer requests for compliance with several government and environmental regulations such as Nafta, DFARS, Ro-HS, REACH, LEED, etc.
• Assist and guide the plant warehouse supervision and Quality Assurance Department in the development and support of the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System
• All other duties as assigned or duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in metallurgical engineering, material science or equivalent preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of experience (preferred metal industries)
• Experience with interpretations of metal materials specifications (ASTM, SAE, AMS, ASME)
• Able to work as a member of a cohesive team
• Knowledge of inspection and control methods, techniques, and documentation
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong computer skills including QA applications, word processing, spreadsheets, and databases
• Working knowledge of SAP