Metallurgy Manager

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We're Hiring: Metallurgy Manager

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to delivering high-quality materials, engineering solutions, and industrial products across diverse markets. Our teams combine metallurgy, materials science, engineering, manufacturing, quality, operations, procurement, and research expertise to improve material performance, reliability, efficiency, and lifecycle value.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Metallurgy Manager to lead metallurgical strategy, materials engineering, testing, failure analysis, quality assurance, technical standards, and continuous improvement across manufacturing, engineering, and operational activities.

The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership on material selection, alloy development, heat treatment, corrosion, welding, mechanical performance, metallurgical testing, failure investigations, and material qualification while ensuring compliance with applicable industry standards and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and implement metallurgical strategies aligned with business, engineering, manufacturing, and product objectives.
- Lead metallurgical engineering activities across material selection, qualification, processing, testing, production, and quality control.
- Provide technical guidance on ferrous and non-ferrous metals, alloys, coatings, and engineered materials.
- Evaluate material requirements for new products, equipment, components, structures, and industrial applications.
- Establish material specifications, acceptance criteria, technical standards, and metallurgical procedures.
- Lead material selection based on mechanical performance, corrosion resistance, temperature, pressure, wear, fatigue, and operating environment.
- Review material certificates, heat records, traceability documentation, and supplier technical documentation.
- Develop and manage metallurgical testing programs for raw materials, components, welds, and finished products.
- Oversee mechanical, chemical, metallographic, corrosion, hardness, toughness, fatigue, and other specialized testing.
- Manage metallographic examination, microscopy, microstructure evaluation, and phase analysis.
- Evaluate heat-treatment processes including annealing, normalizing, quenching, tempering, solution treatment, aging, and stress relief.
- Monitor heat-treatment parameters and assess their impact on material properties and product performance.
- Support welding engineering through weld procedure qualification, weldability assessment, heat-affected-zone evaluation, and post-weld heat treatment requirements.
- Provide metallurgical support for welding, fabrication, machining, forming, casting, forging, and additive manufacturing processes.
- Lead material failure investigations involving fracture, fatigue, corrosion, cracking, wear, deformation, overheating, and manufacturing defects.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and recommend corrective and preventive actions for material-related failures.
- Evaluate fracture surfaces, microstructures, inclusions, defects, corrosion mechanisms, and other evidence during investigations.
- Develop corrosion-management strategies for equipment and materials exposed to aggressive operating environments.




- Assess corrosion mechanisms including general corrosion, pitting, crevice corrosion, galvanic corrosion, erosion-corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, and hydrogen-related damage.
- Support selection of corrosion-resistant alloys, coatings, linings, inhibitors, and other protection systems.
- Evaluate material degradation, remaining life, fitness for service, and asset integrity requirements.
- Support inspection, non-destructive testing, and condition-monitoring programs from a metallurgical perspective.
- Review material and component designs for manufacturability, durability, reliability, and lifecycle performance.
- Lead material qualification and approval programs for new suppliers, alloys, processes, and components.
- Establish supplier qualification requirements and technical evaluation criteria.
- Review supplier manufacturing processes, quality systems, testing capabilities, and metallurgical controls.
- Support procurement teams in evaluating technically compliant material suppliers and specifications.
- Investigate material non-conformances, customer complaints, production defects, and recurring quality issues.
- Develop corrective actions and verify their effectiveness through testing and performance monitoring.
- Establish metallurgical quality-control procedures and inspection plans.
- Maintain material databases, specifications, test results, failure records, and technical documentation.
- Ensure material traceability throughout procurement, manufacturing, testing, storage, and delivery.
- Support research and development activities involving new alloys, advanced materials, coatings, and manufacturing technologies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies such as additive manufacturing, advanced high-strength materials, digital metallurgy, computational materials engineering, and automated inspection.
- Develop metallurgical models, testing methodologies, and data-analysis approaches where appropriate.
- Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, procurement, HSE, and research teams.
- Provide technical support for major projects, equipment upgrades, plant expansions, and product-development initiatives.
- Ensure metallurgical activities comply with applicable industry codes, standards, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
- Lead technical reviews, audits, investigations, and metallurgical assessments.
- Manage external laboratories, testing facilities, consultants, specialist engineers, and technical service providers.
- Define technical scopes, deliverables, quality requirements, and performance expectations for metallurgical vendors.
- Manage metallurgical budgets, testing costs, laboratory resources, equipment investments, and improvement programs.
- Identify opportunities to reduce material costs, scrap, rework, failures, testing time, and production losses.
- Promote continuous improvement, technical knowledge sharing, standardization, and engineering best practices.




- Develop the technical capability of metallurgical engineers, technicians, inspectors, and laboratory personnel.
- Provide management with regular reports covering material performance, quality, failures, testing, risks, costs, projects, and improvement opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators
- Material quality compliance
- Material specification compliance
- Material qualification cycle time
- Material test accuracy
- Laboratory turnaround time
- Metallurgical testing completion
- Material non-conformance rate
- Supplier material defect rate
- Customer material-related complaints
- Scrap and rework rate
- Material failure frequency
- Repeat failure rate
- Failure investigation cycle time
- Corrective action closure
- Root-cause identification effectiveness
- Heat-treatment compliance
- Heat-treatment defect rate
- Mechanical property compliance
- Hardness and toughness compliance
- Weld quality performance
- Weld-related material failures
- Corrosion rate
- Corrosion-related failure frequency
- Material traceability compliance
- Supplier technical performance
- Laboratory quality and reliability
- Inspection and testing compliance
- Cost per test or analysis
- Material cost savings
- Scrap reduction
- Rework reduction
- Product reliability improvement
- Asset integrity improvement
- Technical audit performance
- Regulatory and standards compliance
- Research and development delivery
- New material qualification success
- Continuous-improvement savings
- Engineering response time
- Training and competency completion

Ideal Candidate The successful candidate should have strong experience in metallurgy, materials engineering, materials science, manufacturing metallurgy, corrosion engineering, welding metallurgy, or industrial materials management , preferably within oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining, metals, manufacturing, power generation, construction, or heavy engineering.

The candidate should demonstrate

- Strong knowledge of physical metallurgy, materials science, and alloy behavior.
- Experience with ferrous and non-ferrous materials and industrial alloys.
- Strong understanding of heat treatment, welding metallurgy, casting, forging, forming, and machining processes.
- Experience with metallurgical testing, material qualification, and laboratory operations.
- Strong knowledge of mechanical, chemical, metallographic, and corrosion testing.
- Experience conducting material failure analysis and root-cause investigations.
- Understanding of corrosion mechanisms and corrosion-control technologies.
- Knowledge of material standards, specifications, codes, and quality requirements.
- Experience with supplier qualification, material certificates, traceability, and technical audits.
- Familiarity with non-destructive testing and inspection technologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience managing laboratories, testing equipment, technical vendors, and specialist consultants.
- Strong project-management and budget-management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, maintenance, and operations teams.
- Strong technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary and international teams.
- Strong commitment to safety, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- A practical and data-driven approach to material selection and engineering decision-making.

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