Senior Engineer

Company

• Kennametal delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through our advanced materials sciences and application knowledge. Our commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value to our customers. Kennametal’s portfolio of well-respected brand names and broad global presence enable us to help customers of all sizes in virtually every geography drive success at every stage of their value chain. Strategically aligned across our two core businesses - Industrial and Infrastructure - our products and services touch nearly every manufacturing process. People around the globe can see and touch these results throughout many aspects of their day, from the light switch they turn on to the car they drive.

Tasks

• Supports or leads projects though ACE (stage gate process) for new product, technology, process or manufacturing technology development. Provides support to manufacturing to improve process capability, reduce scrap or implementation of new processes. Supports technology programs with universities, external research partners, customers, or suppliers.
• Technologies include powder handling and classification, cold isostatic pressing, hot isostatic pressing, vacuum induction melting, aluminothermic reactions, hydrogen furnaces, hydride-dehydride reactions, and related mix calculations.
• Other relevant skills are wear resistant materials, their binders, attachment, and characterization including cemented carbides, coatings, hardfacing, and copper manganese alloys.

Requirements

• Must be able to coordinate and execute longer-term team projects independently; gives technical direction to lower level engineers and A&T personnel in project work. Alternatively, candidate is highly skilled in the technical discipline important to Kennameta l, and uses those skills and extensive experience in providing technical support to others.
• Has the responsibility to accomplish project objectives and to stay within project budget limits. Above-average communication skills are required for project leadership. Typically, senior engineers have a Ph.D., plus two (2) years specializing in a material science discipline, or a M.S. degree and about four (4) years of relevant experience, or a B.S. degree with about seven (7) or more years. 
• Experience in cemented carbides is a plus. Technical writing and communication skills are required.