Careers

MELD Manufacturing is looking for a self-motivated and versatile machinist. In this position the machinist will produce high quality machine components, MELD tooling, and finished machine parts from MELD printed parts in a variety of steels, aluminums, and alloy materials such as titanium and tungsten.

Responsibilities:

• Setup and operate CNC controlled machines including lathe and mill
• Program CNC machines using CAM package
• Select tooling, fixturing, and machine parameters to produce quality parts in a wide variety of materials.
• Maintain cleanliness of work and shop areas
• Provide feedback to the engineering team on part design and manufacturing methods

Required:

• 10+ years machining experience
• 5+ years CNC experience
• Previous experience with CAM package
• Adaptable to part variety and dynamic environment
• Comfortable working as part of a team and as an individual contributor
• Detail-oriented
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to work with aggressive timelines

Desired:

• FeatureCAM experience
• HAAS control experience
• Experience with wire EDM
• Simple welding and fabrication

As our Chief Metallurgist, you will lead innovation supporting process and hardware development and quality supporting production.

Specific activities include:

• Perform metallurgical evaluation of our products, optimize product quality, conduct mechanical tests and internal audits, communicate with customers on quality and product development, and visit customers and vendors as necessary.
• Engage in innovating new technology ideas and reduce to practice through implementation of laboratory testing using state of the art protocols
• Provide technical expertise, execution and metallurgical solutions by analyzing production data for accuracy and consistency
• Develop material testing and specification standards and procedure
• Guide technical staff in materials issues, selection, and application.
• Evaluate product plans for feasibility from a materials standpoint.
• Partner with materials providers to guarantee suitable product in the supply chain.
• Research, evaluate, and approve vendor and customer processes from a materials standpoint.
• Lead in the design of products, and manufacturing processes, from a materials perspective.
• Represent the company at conferences and networking events
• Oversee activity of research partners
• Review and manage development timeframes and budgets

Requirements:

• Engineering Degree with a minimum of ten (10) years plus direct metallurgical experience
• Experience with a friction stir based process.
• Over 5 years in executive management or senior leadership role
• Excellent leadership, team building, and management skil
• Able to mentor, encourage, and lead effectively

As a MELD Machine Operator, you will be a part of the machine operations team.

Specific activities include:

• Operating MELD machines to make parts and samples
• Using simple hand tools e.g. wrenches, screw drivers, hand drills, etc.
• Maintaining work log of daily activities related to specific jobs
• Providing demos to customers and visitors on site
• Keeping the machine and workspace clean and organized
• Supporting your group with machine maintenance, purchasing, and inventory management

Requirements:

• CNC operation
• Experience with g-code
• Good written communication and documentation skills
• Efficient and effective time management

As Application Engineer, you will work directly with customers to develop and deliver technical specifications and pricing for projects, production manufacturing, and custom equipment.  You will guide customers in their adoption of MELD technology. This role necessitates a self-motivated, technology-oriented individual with a strong desire to help customers succeed. In addition to having excellent communication and organizational skills, being a good listener, and being detail-oriented, you must have a competitive spirit, be eager to learn new things, and be passionate about helping the MELD team and your customers win.

Specific activities include:

• Develop solutions appropriate for your customer’s needs
  • Design competitive and viable technical approaches for the need
  • Prepare technical specifications and detailed cost elements for the technical specification
  • Effectively communicate requirements, capabilities, and limitations to your customer and your internal engineering team
  • Prepare specifications for required components
• Be a champion for your customer
  • Identify enhanced product or service feature needs by soliciting feedback from customers
  • Communicate customer feedback to your management for continuous improvement
  • Review marketing materials for technical accuracy
  • Manage quotations, purchase orders, acknowledgements and updates in a timely manner
  • Work collaboratively with other team members to ensure all tasks and procedures related to ensuring customer success are completed on time.
• Be a champion for the MELD technology
  • Prepare and deliver presentations at technical conferences and meetings
  • Identify and suggest new products and applications to drive business growth
  • Monitor industry trends to recommend new product and service features
  • Track competitive environment to identify new products and technology and provide comparative analyses to the commercial and R&D teams

This position involves domestic and global travel.

As a Metallurgist (or MELD-allurgist) you will work to develop and implement standards for ensuring the quality of materials produced by the MELD process. Work with development engineers to propose solutions to the development of new materials. Create inspection criteria for materials produced by the MELD process. Compile and present data to management.

Specific activities include:

• Create and maintain quality control standards, including inspection criteria
• Work to develop new materials and material combinations using the MELD process
• Provide support to process development engineers in the creation of best practices
• Provide support to application engineers with customer specific opportunities

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Material Science, Mechanical, Welding, Metallurgical, or Chemical Engineering. Recent college graduates will be considered. Advanced degree is preferred.
• Must have experience with Aluminum, Steel, Titanium, and Nickel Alloys
• Must have experience with SEM, TEM, and other advanced characterization methods
• Experience with solid-state processes, such as MELD, Friction Stir Welding, Friction Welding, etc. a plus!
• Self-motivated and result oriented
• Efficient and effective time management
• Ability to work well within the team
• Proficiency of basic computer programs such as Microsoft Excel and Word required

You will be responsible for conducting and reporting on laboratory testing of metal samples.

Specific activities include:

• Prepare samples for testing, which may include polishing
• Perform accurate and timely testing by inserting coupons into test machines
• Ensure that all test procedures are completed in accordance with MELD test procedures
• Maintain the cleanliness of the lab on a daily basis
• Supply accurate electronic reports of all test procedures
• Ensure all tests are ran and provided to appropriate personnel within a timely manner
• Maintain test supply inventory
• A degree is not required. You must have experience in a lab testing role to qualify for this position. Experience with metallography is a bonus!