Job Summary: The Recycling & Casting Project Leader is to lead the process development and best practice sharing work in his technology field including: identifying and leading implementation of best practices in the Constellium plants linked with furnaces and combustion technology, leading combustion and furnace reliability with plant experts, and provide technical support for improvement process in recycling (scrap cold preparation, scrap immersion,...) and melting technology deployment.
Responsibilities- Ensuring technology and competitive watch in their technology field.
- Organizing internal and external benchmarking in their technology field.
- Identifying and leading implementation of process improvement on prioritized high-value-at-stake Constellium projects.
- Defining and leading implementation of best practices / guidelines / standard & reference practices
- Defining internal and external resources needed for implementation
- Giving guidance on process in his field including needed capex
- Support refractory alternatives selection, test, and deployment.
- Support Energy and Refractory network
- Support the deployment and roadmap for casthouse energy.
- Build process KPIs and benchmarking system.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field required.
- Leadership Skills
- Ensure interfaces and efficient communication with internal and external partners, based on a wide knowledge of the organization
- Use good listening skills to truly hear and understand what others are saying
- Implement and maintain a sharing culture in his/her scope
- Foster teamwork
- Entrepreneurship skills
- Manage and track process over time, in a consistent and holistic manner to detect and capitalize relevant information
- Technical skills
- Good knowledge of Aluminum process and products and expertise level in:
- Furnace design, gas fire and induction furnace operation, combustion process
- Emission control and prevention
- Dross processing
- Liquid metal degassing and filtration
- Synthetic analysis and reporting
- English proficient/French preferred
A technology team has been created since 2012 to develop and implement Constellium-wide technologies to achieve best in class performances in our process steps and routes in all dimensions (throughput, productivity, recovery, lead time, capability, inventory, energy, reliability...) and lead industrialization of new products and processes.
Within this team the Recycling & Casting Project Leader reporting to the BPC Casting & Recycling Manager has the mandate to drive process improvement and best practice roll out within his technology field around recycling & casting that includes furnace technologies (induction, rotary tilting and reverberatory), sustainability (energy, environmental compliance), molten metal processing, combustion and refractory expertise.
