Héroux-Devtek Looking for Process Engineer at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

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Heroux-Devtek, the world’s 3rd largest producer of landing gear, serves the civil and military aerospace markets from production facilities in North America and Europe. The Company’s longevity, flexibility, and track record for the development and implementation of innovative production systems have distinguished it as a leader in the domain. With its most recent acquisitions, Heroux-Devtek is bolstering its status as one of the foremost landing gear, actuation and hydraulic system designers and manufacturers in the global aerospace industry.

Division info:

The Aerostructure Market of Héroux-Devtek focuses on a complete line of precision machined structural components and assemblies, from simple aluminum parts to large monolithic five-axis complex components.

Summary of position:

As a key figure in the support engineering group, this role has key inputs into our technical operations and provides critical support to the value streams and production resources.

The focus will be on sustained development and continual improvement of our special process procedures and techniques and our understanding of the metallurgical effects of our processes. The ultimate goal is to provide products with superior performance characteristics to our customers and enhance our market equity opportunities.

Main responsibilities:

Sustained development of internal processing techniques and procedures

• Specializing in Heat Treatment, Vacuum Brazing, Hardness Testing, and Chemical Processing process requirements
• Full Comprehension, review, approval of internal processing/supporting documentation/instruction
• Full Comprehension and continual review of industry and customer specification
• Continual improvement on techniques and technologies involved with special processing
• Continual improvement of Methods and Procedures
• Support the sustainment of NADCAP accreditation, in accordance with the specs and audit requirements

Act as a liaison between the Performance Review Institute, American Welding Society, Society of Automotive Engineers – Aerospace Group and other key organizations.

• Attendance at NADCAP committee meetings and AWS committee meetings

Play a key role in BPQ (Braze qualification process)

• Understand eutectics, grain growth, and other metallurgical effects of the processes
• Engage with tensile, metallography, and other NDT methods to determine the characteristics of processed alloys
• Work side by side with Manufacturing Engineering to establish repeatable methods with sound M&P logic
• Work side by side with Quality Engineering to ensure adherence to internal procedures and NADCAP requirements

Additional Job Duties

Continuous improvement, Six sigma and other project activity

5-S and cleaning/maintaining of work area cleanliness.

Adherence to all company policies, procedures and health and safety requirements.

Any other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED BACKGROUD:

3-10 years of experience in a M&P/ metallurgical role

University Degree in Metallurgy / Materials / Processes (Aluminum expertise preferred)

CORE COMPETENCIES/REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB:

Proactive quality first ethical attitude

Desire to engage in continual learning and improvement of technical processes

Focus on productivity, agility

You enjoy challenges, teamwork an a quality working environment that evolves continuously? Developing your competencies is a priority for you? Join Héroux-Devtek and “lets grow together”.