Build Engineer, Castings

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Interpret and define product requirements from customer specifications, drawings, and contract requirements, and translate them into casting requirements, quality levels, and inspection needs.
• Reverse engineer castings and cast assemblies from legacy drawings, incomplete technical data, or physical parts to establish design intent, critical zones, and a buildable sequence.
• Review models and drawings for castability, including wall thickness, section changes, draft, parting lines, datum structure, machining stock, shrinkage and porosity risk, and NDT access, and drive changes before…
• Hand a well-defined casting problem to Capability Engineering and the foundry's casting design and simulation team, and review gating, riser, and solidification results against the product requirements.
• Define casting quality levels by zone and weld repair limits with Design and Quality.
• Own the end-to-end casting route, from pattern through pour, heat treatment, cleaning, NDT, weld repair, and dimensional inspection, to the handoff to machining.
• Place datums and machining stock so the first machining setup works the first time.
• Define the high-level process for each operation (alloy and condition, quality levels, heat treatment, NDT method and acceptance criteria, and cycle time against rate) and hand it to Capability Engineering complete and…

Job requirements

• 5+ years of experience in build, manufacturing, or casting engineering with direct ownership of large castings from requirements through production.
• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical, Materials, Mechanical, or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience interpreting and defining product requirements from customer specifications, drawings, and contract quality clauses, and translating them into build requirements.
• Working knowledge of large steel castings (sand molding, heat treatment, weld repair) and casting defects, deep enough to drive DFM and set quality levels.
• Experience reverse engineering castings or cast assemblies from incomplete technical data, legacy drawings, or physical parts.
• Understanding of NDT methods for castings (RT, UT, MT, and PT) and how acceptance criteria flow from product requirements.
• Experience structuring BOMs, work orders, and work instructions in PLM, ERP, or MES systems, including engineering change and configuration management.
• Strong GD&T and 3D CAD skills.