Product Engineer Team Leader - HSC

Howmet Aerospace, Howmet Aerospace (HES) is a world-class producer of aero engine and industrial gas turbine components, including airfoils, rings, disks and forgings. We excel in vacuum melted superalloys, machining, performance coatings and hot isostatic pressing for high performance parts that enable the next generation of quieter, more fuel-efficient aero engines and cleaner power generation. Howmet Engine Systems is a business unit of Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM). 

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Howmet Engine Systems is currently seeking an experienced Operations professional to join our Structural Engineering team in Hampton, Virginia. Are you an empowered Lead Team Partner with the drive to transform ideas into sustainable value?  We are seeking individuals who have a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a manufacturing environment, as well as the passion to put that experience to work to lead activities and support plant/location team to achieve manufacturing excellence.  Our organization is dedicated to rapid, profitable growth through operational excellence and career development.  If you are an energetic professional that wants to be a part of a dynamic team we encourage you to apply.  

Job Summary

As a Product Engineering Team Leader, you will be responsible for all dimensional characteristics and tooling pertaining to the investment casting process and our products.  This may involve both new development and production castings.  In this role you will be teamed up with a Process Engineer Team Leader who will be responsible for the metallurgical aspects of the process. The prime responsibility for this position is to engineer the highest yield and lowest overall cost product while meeting or exceeding all customer defined quality requirements.  In this position you will work in a team environment with other engineers as well as hands on with the manufacturing team so strong communication skills are required.  You will have a team of Product Engineers reporting to you that you will lead, guide and mentor to achieve the above stated goals.

Essential Functions and Job Responsibilities

• Compliance to Howmet’s Safety Regulations

• Collaborate with customers to align Blueprint to manufacturing capability

• Drive continuous improvement to optimize process and cost

• Lead manufacturing tooling design, construction, and implementation
• Create manufacturing routing and processing instructions
• Compilation of costs for quotation packages (Product, tooling and NRE)
• Develop and optimize processes for production and developmental castings
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize existing processes
• Provide technical support for customer, supply chain and vendor meetings and reviews.
• Must comply with all company attendance policies and guidelines; this includes, but is not limited to, regular attendance and some overtime
• Excellent communication and leadership skills 
• Lead cross-functional problem-solving and follow-up actions to achieve team objectives
• Other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities:

• Reads, analyzes, and interprets technical procedures, including complex blueprints and specifications.  Effectively write reports, business correspondence, and procedures. Presents information and responds to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and workforce teams.
• Ability to apply mathematical (statistical) operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Solves practical problems and deals with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in wr