Quality Engineer

Cleveland-Cliffs Steel has an immediate opportunity for a Quality Engineer at our Burns Harbor location. The Quality Engineer is responsible for supporting the daily quality activities including review of heat and slab production, grading of non-conforming material, maintaining high inventory velocity, steelmaking and casting process design. Longer time-framed analyses and reporting of performance data to management to identify waste/non-conforming material and/or solutions. The ideal candidate must strive to improve quality system compliance, reduction of waste/non-conforming material, and metallurgical product improvement to make the highest quality steel. In addition to metallurgical knowledge, statistical troubling shooting skills, be self-motivated, and thrive in a fast-paced work environment with complex operations.

Summary of Responsibilities:

• Comply with safety, quality, and environmental standards.

• As part of the Quality Team, work closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, and other technical resources to drive results and improvement in the quality metrics.

• Possess the ability to work effectively within a team environment, utilizing clear and effective communication skills.

• Communicate with downstream production areas to determine applicability of off chemistry heats and assigns appropriate steel grade.

• Analyze casting process outputs for proper grading of casting events.

• Identify, verify, and disposition transition slabs between different grades and caster stoppages.

• Evaluate held slabs and move them to the proper next process step.

• Prepare and present daily, weekly, and monthly Steel Producing performance metrics for facility management.

• Develop protocols for slabs being transferred to other plants.

• Update existing and write new Quality Assurance Standard Procedure Documents (SPDs).

• Review steelmaking processes to determine source cause of Downstream quality concerns.

• Maintain and update the Slab Quality Model to assure slabs are properly graded based on casting events.

• Enter and assign Quality process parameters in the Slab Quality Model for new grades.

• Evaluation of surface and internal quality on trials run by operations or Operating Technology.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgy, Material Science, or Chemical engineering.

• Knowledge of steel defect origins and metallurgical principles in steelmaking, plate, hot rolling, and finishing.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Must be familiar with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) and SQL.

• Interpersonal skills and the ability to operate effectively within a team-oriented, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some knowledge of steelmaking steps and routings.

• Demonstrated success in defining and resolving problems.

• Strong analytical skills.

Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. We offer an excellent total compensation package including top pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, retirement plan, education assistance, paid time off and more!