Careers

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.

Send résumé to hr@meldmanufacturing.com.

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:

• Good written communication and documentation skills
• Efficient and effective time management
• Experience operating industrial equipment is a plus but not required

Send résumé to hr@meldmanufacturing.com.

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

Send résumé to hr@meldmanufacturing.com.

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!

Send résumé to hr@meldmanufacturing.com.

As a Process Development Engineer, you will help develop the MELD™ process for specific applications and materials to ensure quality, cost, and production targets are met. You will also troubleshoot problems with processes and implement corrective actions while working closely with engineering and the metallurgy team on technical issues and problem solutions. Additionally, you will compile and present data to management related to both research and production activities.

Specific activities include:

• Create process flow and DOEs for new materials and applications
• Create and maintain necessary process documentation for standardized operation
• Work closely with metallurgists and applications engineers for quality control
• Design and Implement improvements to process. Identify improvement opportunities to hardware and software development teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Material Science, Mechanical, Welding, Metallurgical, or Chemical Engineering. Recent college graduates will be considered.
• 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

Send résumé to hr@meldmanufacturing.com.

As a Production Manager, you will lead the planning, coordination, and operations of manufacturing.  At MELD Manufacturing, this includes part production and machine production.  You’ll help us achieve efficiency and quality inside our company and in our supply chain.  We need your leadership in organization, scheduling, communication, supply chain optimization, safety, and quality as we dramatically scale.

Specific activities include:

• Manufacturing
  • Develop schedules
  • Oversee production
  • Estimate costs and maintain production budgets
  • Set quality standards
  • Ensure safety on the shop floor
  • Support continuous improvement
• Communication
  • Effectively communicate requirements, capabilities, and limitations to your internal and external customers and team
  • Help our growing team build trust in processes you introduce
  • Unify our teams that work different shifts
  • Identify opportunities for innovation
• Supply Chain Management
  • Manage material ordering and inventory
  • Develop best in class suppliers who we can depend on
• Be a champion for the MELD™ technology

You must have experience in a production scheduling role to qualify for this position. Experience with ISO standards implementation and black belt or similar certification are a bonus!

Send résumé to hr@meldmanufacturing.com.