Post-Casting Process Owner
Location: Near Jacksonville, Alabama (on-site)
Salary: $100,000-$150,000 annually
Schedule: Full time
Summary
Lead the post-casting processes that convert advanced aerospace investment castings into dimensionally compliant, shippable products. This hands-on engineering role owns process sequencing, equipment programming, standard work, technical controls, and continuous improvement across material removal, chemical core leaching, heat treatment, blending, and final casting-drawing conformance.
Essential Functions
Serve as the technical process owner for post-solidification operations from raw casting through casting-drawing conformance.
Define, optimize, and standardize shell knockout, high-pressure water blasting, abrasive water-jet cutting, and other primary material-removal processes.
Program and maintain standard work for gate, feeder, and runner trim-cut operations, including tooling and fixture controls that protect the parent alloy.
Own chemical core-leaching processes, including bath concentration, cycle time, equipment control, validation testing, and complete ceramic removal.
Optimize in-house vacuum heat-treatment cycles and maintain ramp-rate, soak-time, pyrometry, AMS2750, and Nadcap compliance.
Coordinate technical requirements, routing, and verification data for outsourced thermal processes, including solutioning, aging, and HIP.
Establish controlled methods for blending, belt sanding, blasting, and surface finishing to achieve dimensional and surface-finish requirements.
Use casting drawings and structured blue-light scan data to guide targeted finishing and restore out-of-profile castings to conformance.
Investigate post-cast defects and rework, lead root-cause analysis, and reduce mis-cuts, over-blending, incomplete leaching, and process bottlenecks.
Maintain fixed-process documentation, technical work instructions, chemical-handling controls, and safe operation of thermal and material-removal equipment.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in mechanical, chemical, metallurgical, materials, manufacturing engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
At least three years of hands-on manufacturing engineering experience in a heavy industrial or foundry environment.
Direct exposure to chemical leaching, high-pressure water systems, thermal processing, precision grinding, or blending.
Understanding of mechanical metal-removal methods, abrasive media selection, tooling, and fixture design.
Working knowledge of heat-treatment fundamentals and pyrometry standards such as AMS2750 or the Nadcap framework.
Familiarity with industrial chemical controls, autoclaves, and safe chemical-handling practices.
Ability to read complex casting drawings and interpret structured blue-light color maps or comparable dimensional data.
Hands-on, shop-floor approach with a strong focus on safety, throughput, repeatability, quality, and equipment uptime.
Must qualify as a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or permanent resident) for ITAR/EAR-controlled work.
Benefits
General benefits include health and dental coverage and paid time off. Specific plan details will be discussed during the hiring process.
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