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Quality Manager and Metallurgist

4/22/2026

The Quality Manager and Metallurgist will lead the quality department and implement manufacturing quality systems, including training and continuous improvement. They are responsible for overseeing heat treatment and coating processes while ensuring compliance with industry standards like ISO, NADCAP, and IATF.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

5,001-10,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

About The Company

Aalberts is a stock listed Dutch company which engineers mission-critical technologies for ground-breaking industries and everyday life. With over 16.000 employees in over 140 locations Aalberts is organized in five business segments. The segment Surface Technologies is the biggest of all five Aalberts segments offering technical services in the field of heat treatment, surface treatment and specialized machining. With a turnover of 650 Mio. € and approx. 6.000 employees worldwide Aalberts surface technologies operates from 80 locations in Europe, USA and China. Our headquarter is located in Kerpen, NRW, Germany. For career opportunities please check out https://jobs.aalberts-st.com

About the Role

Description

The Quality Manager and Metallurgist is responsible for implementing and controlling all manufacturing quality systems to include employee training, analyzing, controlling and minimizing rejections, handling and following up on customer complaints, continuous improvement, and specifying processing parameters. Lead Quality department including Lab Techs and Quality Engineers. Assists in developing and analyzing high volume heat treatment and phosphate coating processes for the treatment of steel and aluminum bar, castings and forgings, which entails applying the principles of deformation processes, thermodynamics of materials, kinetics and diffusion and material selection. Be the auditee for the plant in ISO, NADCAP and IATF audits.

Requirements

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS / ABILITIES:

· Good knowledge of the automotive industry and systems such as IS09001/IATF16949 and CQI-9, CQI-12, NADCAP.

· Ability to plan, determine, formulate, establish and manage complete quality assurance systems.

· Must maintain high quality standards, have a pleasant disposition and use tact in dealing with employees and customers.

· Must be able to supervise, communicate, use computer related quality programs and have good writing skills.

· Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point) and AS400 preferred.

· Must be able to us higher mathematics involving engineering principles

QUALIFICATIONS:

· Requires a degree in Metallurgy or related field

· A minimum of five years of manufacturing experience or equivalent

· Extensive knowledge of heat treating principles including time, temperature, transformation relations, different Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) steels, hardness and microstructural analysis and quality control using SPC (Statistical Process Control) techniques.

This Aalberts facility is ITAR, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, certified. This means all employees are required to be US citizens or green card holders. Here is a link about ITAR and the requirements if you wish to learn more: https://securiti.ai/blog/itar-requirements-for-employee/

Key Skills

MetallurgyQuality ManagementHeat TreatmentISO 9001IATF 16949NADCAPStatistical Process ControlSPCCQI-9CQI-12Material SelectionMicrostructural AnalysisAS400MS Office SuiteEngineering PrinciplesManufacturing Processes