Project Lead "DC-Casting and Cast Products"(m/f/d)

We think about the future 

– also yours.

Challenges that will make you grow

• Participation in R&D teams with focus on DC-casting and cast product properties (shell zone, phase formation, floating crystals, …)
• Advice operations on impact on processing and cast products defects, coming from casting practices or alloy composition with particular focus on increasing recycling content for current alloys
• Support development of casting recipes for industrial alloys cast in the Speira plants (especially recycling friendly alloys)
• Identification and extension of cast products tolerance to trace elements concentration
• Perform numerical studies of DC-casting and cast house products
• Improve our simulation tools (include element segregation) and apply to the industrial process
• Support selection of casting technology for the plants
• Link the casting improvements with other optimizations needed in the whole process from liquid metal to finish slab

Qualifications that will get you ahead

• Degree in metallurgy (M.Sc. or PhD)
• Experience in numeric (e.g. CFD, electromagnetics, multi-physics)
• Cast house knowledge and understanding on different steps involved in the process
• Understand of quality requirements of alloys, melting and with specific focus in casting
• Practical experience as well as theoretical knowledge on Aluminium DC-casting
• You have project management skills
• Good written and spoken German and English, other foreign languages are advantageous
• High motivation, flexibility, teamwork and communication skills
• Driving license class B mandatory
• Experience in alloy development, and effect of recycling elements on alloy performance (castability, subsequent processing) and basic understanding of alloys (particularly Aluminium) are valued

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We expressly emphasize that all people - regardless of gender/gender identity, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability or equality, age, and sexual orientation - are equally welcome at our company.

Applications from severely disabled persons and persons with equal disabilities will be considered if they are equally qualified.

Our Benefits

• Attractive compensation package
• Excellent further training opportunities
• Respectful and collegial corporate culture
• Sports & and health promotion (e.g. Urban Sports)
• Work-life balance
• Canteen
• Company pension plan and pension plan according to collective agreement
• Corporate Benefits portal with many discounts
• Subsidized Jobticket
• Access to the Handelshof in Düsseldorf and HH-Harburg
• Job Bike

About us

Speira is a leading European aluminium rolling and recycling company, comprising a total of eleven recycling and production sites in Germany and Norway plus own research and development. Speira recycles up to 650,000 tons of aluminium per year and produces around one million tons of advanced rolled products.
The plants include the Alunorf joint venture, the world’s largest aluminium rolling mill, and Grevenbroich, the world’s largest refining plant in the world. With approximately 5,400 employees, Speira is proud to supply some of the best-known industrial companies in the global sectors automotive, packaging, printing, engineering, building and construction. For more information about Speira, please visit speira.com.

Are you interested? Then apply now!

Contact:  Eva Vosdellen 

Do you have any questions? We look forward to your call: +49 2181 477 3008