Key Responsibilities

Metallurgical and Technical Leadership

- Serve as the subject matter expert for stainless steel, nickel alloy, titanium alloy, and other specialty tubular products used in aerospace, defense, energy, industrial, and engineered applications.
- Provide metallurgical guidance to manufacturing, quality, engineering, and commercial teams.
- Evaluate material selection, processing techniques, and performance characteristics to support new and existing product applications, including aerospace-grade seamless and welded tubing programs.
- Develop technical standards and best practices related to metallurgy and materials engineering.
- Support alloy and process roadmap development for ATG's pivot into higher-value aerospace tubing, including titanium, nickel, stainless, and high-performance alloy product families.
- Oversee the technical feasibility review for new products, and customer specific requirements prior to quotation.
- Maintain and control technical documentation for new alloy and specialty product development.

Product Quality & Failure Analysis

- Lead structured root cause investigations involving customer complaints, product failures, manufacturing defects, and quality issues using disciplined problem-solving methods such as 8D, 5 Why, and Fishbone analysis.
- Conduct metallographic examinations, mechanical testing reviews, microstructure analysis, and failure investigations.
- Develop corrective and preventive actions to improve product reliability and manufacturing performance.
- Provide technical reports and recommendations to management and customers.

Manufacturing Support

- Partner with Mill Operations, Quality, and Engineering teams to improve manufacturing processes.




- Evaluate the impact of welding, forming, drawing, pilgering, annealing, pickling, bright annealing, sizing, straightening, and finishing processes on product quality, dimensional control, microstructure, and aerospace performance requirements.
- Support process optimization initiatives to improve yield, efficiency, and product consistency.
- Participate in Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement projects.
- Provide metallurgical input on seamless tube production routes, including purchased hollows, extrusion, piercing, pilgering, drawing, heat treatment, and final inspection requirements.
- Provide metallurgical input on welded and welded-drawn tube production routes, including strip selection, weld integrity, bead conditioning, cold reduction, heat treatment, and qualification pathways for aerospace applications.
- Support new product development initiatives and qualification programs for aerospace, defense, and specialty alloy tubing applications.
- Collaborate with sales teams to provide technical support for customer applications and specifications.
- Work closely with procurement team to develop and qualify new/potentila vendors
- Assist in the review of customer specifications, drawings, material requirements, testing requirements, quality requirements, acceptance criteria,



and technical feasibility for current business opportunities.
- Participate in customer audits, qualification reviews, and technical presentations.
- Assist in developing advanced tubing solutions and specialty applications.
- Support customer and OEM qualification activities for seamless and welded aerospace tubing, including technical data packages, process capability evidence, material traceability, and metallurgical validation.

Product Development & Customer Support

Testing & Compliance

- Oversee and interpret mechanical, corrosion, and metallurgical testing programs.
- Ensure compliance with applicable ASTM, ASME, SAE, AMS, MIL-SPEC, CSA, ISO, AS9100, NADCAP-related, and customer specifications where applicable.
- Review and approve technical documentation, material certifications, and testing protocols.
- Review customer and industry specifications during quotation, contract review, and launch phases to confirm material capability, processing requirements, testing scope, documentation needs, and technical risks.
- Support aerospace-grade inspection and verification requirements, including ultrasonic testing, eddy current testing, hydrostatic testing, dimensional inspection, mechanical testing, corrosion testing, and metallographic evaluation.
- Support internal and external quality audits.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

- Monitor advancements in metallurgy, material science, welding technology, seamless tube manufacturing, welded-drawn tube processing, aerospace qualification practices, and advanced manufacturing processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, sustainability,

📌 Metallurgy Technical Feasibility Manager (Markham)
🏢 Samuel, Son
📍 Markham