HEAT TREATMENT MANAGER FOR FOUNDRY STEEL SHOTS MANUFACTURING

A Heat Treatment Manager leads the heat treatment department in manufacturing, steel, automotive, or aerospace plants, ensuring metals and components meet strict metallurgical and quality standards. Core Responsibilities Process Control: Oversee thermal cycles including annealing, normalizing, quenching, tempering, hardening, carburizing, and nitriding. Furnace & Equipment Management: Monitor temperature cycles, soaking times, furnace atmospheres, loading patterns, and pyrometry (such as TUS and SAT). Quality Assurance & Metallurgy: Inspect hardness (Rockwell, Vickers, micro-hardness), analyze microstructures, conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and CAPA, and minimize rejections. Compliance & Standards: Maintain adherence to industry and customer standards such as AMS, ASTM, AS9100, or Nadcap accreditations. Team Leadership & Safety: Supervise operators, technicians, and engineers, enforce safety SOPs and PPE guidelines, and manage shift-wise logs. Maintenance & Calibration: Coordinate preventive maintenance, calibration of sensors/instruments, and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) tracking.