Aluminum Dynamics, LLC (ADL) needs to strengthen its position as a preferred materials supplier for OEMs and improve through-cycle profitability by effectively managing customer relationships and technical requirements in the automotive and common alloy/industrial sectors.
Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of aluminum flat-rolled circle grid analysis.
- Experience in melting, casting, rolling, coating, and/or quality management of aluminum sheet products.
- Technical experience resolving issues and solving problems with ADL automotive customers and field service representatives.
- Experience collaboratively supporting sales/operations personnel and automotive OEMs.
- Experience with forming, bonding, welding, strain analysis, FLD analysis, circle grid analysis, and statistical evaluations.
- Ability to perform part investigations as needed.
- Experience with PPAP processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead customer material qualifications and pre-source requirements in collaboration with operations, quality, and sales teams.
- Review customer inquiries and RFQs from a technical perspective, verifying property parameters, material specifications, and performing part investigations as needed.
- Provide technical support to customer manufacturing facilities, including material evaluations such as forming, bonding, welding, strain analysis, FLD analysis, circle grid analysis, and statistical evaluations.
- Assist ADL Field Service in addressing customer complaints, claims, corrective actions, and operational troubleshooting for quality issues.
- Support corrective actions and prepare metallurgical reports for customer issues.
- Certify customer parts at various production stages, including soft tool, hard tool, home-line production, and series production.
- Facilitate communication between ADL’s automotive sales team and customer OEM tool shops, Tier 1 stampers/assemblers, and OEM stamping plants for trial inventory management, quality issue resolution, and non-conforming material disposition.
Other
- Proven experience in automotive aluminum sheet supply.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- High energy, team-oriented, and relationship-driven.
- Ability to travel frequently, up to 30-40%.
