Quality Engineer- Precious Metals Handling & Testing

Hartland, Wisconsin

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Quality Engineer- Precious Metals Handling & Testing

Permanent

About Heraeus Electro-Nite

How do steel makers save energy and become more sustainable? How do foundries become more efficient and optimize their processes? Heraeus Electro-Nite (HEN) provides solutions for the molten metal industry. We lead the market with our innovations since the 1950s. As a global company with 25 locations and approximately 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to the sustainable growth of our teams and sites.
Heraeus Electro-Nite, headquartered in Houthalen (Belgium), is part of the Heraeus Group. The Technology Group delivers world-class quality in the areas of Metals & Recycling, Healthcare, Semiconductor & Electronics and Industrials. As one of the top 10 family-owned companies in Germany, Heraeus employs around 15,200 employees in 40 countries. 

Your role and responsibilities:

As Quality Engineer, you’ll support platinum laboratory operations and furnace‑room thermal processing. In this role, you’ll strengthen process capability, material traceability, and analytical excellence for high‑value precious‑metal operations, and ensure compliance with standards and customer requirements.

Develop, implement, and maintain process controls, inspection strategies, and acceptance criteria for melting, heat treatment, alloying, and precious‑metal recovery operations.
Apply SPC and capability analysis to monitor trends, assess stability, and drive improvements.
Lead PFMEA, Control Plans, and quality risk assessments to ensure sustained mitigation.
Provide analytical oversight for platinum lab operations, including method development, validation, and measurement‑uncertainty evaluation.
Partner with Engineering to qualify, validate, and optimize furnace processes; lead investigations into furnace excursions or metallurgical anomalies.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, and data‑driven methodologies to reduce variation, scrap, and precious‑metal losses.
Lead or support CAPA activities, root‑cause investigations, and audit readiness efforts for lab and furnace operations.

What is require for this role: