Plant Metallurgist - Belville

SUMMARY:
A vacancy exists in Bellville, Cape Town for an individual who has initiative and drive and can work under the pressure.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:
1. Advise on selection and procurement of strategic materials for boilers and pressure vessels
- Review national and international standards as far as design, manufacture and materials are concerned
- Regularly review stock items and levels
- Review strategic materials lists for actual manufacture
- Assist and review of strategic material purchase requisitions to Purchasing department
- Standardisation of material stock holding based on production requirements and in accordance with stock holding policy

2 Advise design officer on material strategies and selection
- Experience in the field of mechanical equipment and pressure parts
- In-depth knowledge of metallurgy and applications of relevant materials

3. Stay abreast of best steel mills and stockists
- Maintain contact with principal suppliers
- Travel overseas to inspect and release material orders as required
- Attend tube/pipe/plate exhibitions as required

4. Metallurgical inspections and investigations
- Frequent national and international travels to boiler sites, especially in Africa
- Metallurgical analyses and reports
- Competent in hardness testing (including material surface preparation)
- Competent in material replication (including material surface preparation)
- Competent in replica assessment and interpretation
- Competent with microscope to evaluate heat damage based on steel micro-structure
- Boiler inspections and inspection reports
- Failure analyses and failure analysis reports
- Meetings and written communications
- Skilled in clear and professional verbal and written communication in English
- Skilled in public speaking

5. Quality aspects
- Give advice on QC procedures for various activities
- Assist foundry with operations and QC control procedures
- Assist with heat treatment procedures as required for pressure part manufacturing

6. General Duties
- Provide metallurgical assistance as and when required to all business units within company
- Give metallurgical lectures to customers as part of the company boiler training course
- Writing, publishing, and presenting technical papers. (Beneficial to have list of published technical papers in the field of Metallurgy)

QUALIFICATIONS
- BSc or BEng degree in Metallurgical engineering or BSc or BEng degree in mechanical engineering plus master’s degree in metallurgical engineering
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 5 years of experience of working on boilers and industrial plants
SPECIAL INTERESTS, UNDERSTANDING AND SKILLS
- Industrial boilers including shell and tube and watertube design
- Combustion in boilers and heat distribution across components
- Boiler circulation
- Boiler and pressure vessel manufacturing and life assessment
- Boiler water treatment
- Corrosion mechanisms and chemistry
- Metallurgy and Alloy Steel Applications
- Failure Mechanics and Analyses

Should you not receive a response within 10 working days, please consider your application as unsuccessful