Highlights
This role will provide technical support to production, customers, suppliers, and internal teams while developing and maintaining efficient processes that meet customer and industry requirements. We are seeking a Process Engineer to support manufacturing processes, metallurgical operations, and continuous improvement within a specialty metals manufacturing environment.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elgin, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $70,000–$80,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Title: Process Engineer
Location: Elgin, IL 60123
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Schedule: Full-Time, Onsite
Industry: Metals Manufacturing
Salary: $70k-$80k/yr.
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Schedule: Full-Time, Onsite
Industry: Metals Manufacturing
Salary: $70k-$80k/yr.
We are seeking a Process Engineer to support manufacturing processes, metallurgical operations, and continuous improvement within a specialty metals manufacturing environment. This role will provide technical support to production, customers, suppliers, and internal teams while developing and maintaining efficient processes that meet customer and industry requirements.
Job Duties:
- Establish, maintain, and improve manufacturing processes, standards, and procedures.
- Review customer requirements and specifications to determine manufacturing capabilities.
- Provide technical and metallurgical support to customers and internal teams.
- Support production by troubleshooting process issues and ensuring material meets requirements.
- Investigate nonconforming material, customer complaints, and root causes, implementing corrective actions.
- Support continuous improvement and process optimization initiatives.
- Work with Production and Maintenance to improve equipment utilization and material routing.
- Monitor and maintain pyrometry standards for production furnaces.
- Support capital projects and new product development initiatives.
- Develop and manage trial processes for new customer products.
- Perform metallographic analysis and statistical process monitoring as needed.
- Provide technical support to raw material and outside processing suppliers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy, Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Engineering/Science, or related field.
- Experience working in an AS9100 and NADCAP certified environment.
- Metals processing experience required.
- Experience working with Nickel, Titanium, and/or Cobalt materials required.
- Knowledge of thermal processing, cold working, and metal processing.
- Experience with process optimization and statistical methods.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.