AGY is a world leader in high performance materials used in a range of markets including Electronics, Thermoplastics, Industrial, Aerospace, Recreation / Consumer and Defense with a focus on making our customers’ products lighter, faster and stronger.
High performance materials in the form of glass fiber yarns and reinforcements provide our customers with six vital enhanced properties: strength, impact resistance, stiffness, temperature resistance, fatigue resistance and electromagnetic transparency.
With a product portfolio developed for extreme performance utilizing a set of unique manufacturing platforms AGY provides tailored materials solutions to end-use customers for the most demanding applications worldwide.
AGY’s Research and Development Team is in need of an engineer interested in designing precious metal (Platinum & Rhodium alloys) parts and the supporting equipment used for melting and fiberizing glass.
Qualifications/Requirements
Mechanical Engineer (prefer M.
S.
) with advanced courses or specializing in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics
Design precious metal glass melting, containing, conditioning, and fiber forming parts via design tools
Design supporting hardware and equipment for the glass melting/fiberizing parts
Optimize parts for various glass chemistries, glass properties and forming properties
Design parts to maximize productivity, minimize alloy intensity and metal operating loss
Evaluate and enhance designs using FEA software (Comsol)
Evaluate (hands-on) your new designs in production environment via designed experiments
Analyze and document production data comparing your new design to current designs
Work with other engineers on glass yarn quality issues
Understand (and adjust to optimize) the related processes that impact Productivity (e.
g.
glass properties, batch delivery, glass quality, HVAC, fiber quenching, size application, contact points, winding)
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