Materials Rotational Engineer - May 2025 Graduate

  • Saukville
  • Charter Manufacturing
Charter Manufacturing is a fourth-generation family-owned business where our will to grow drives us to do it better. Join the team and become part of our family!

Charter Steel is hiring May 2025 graduates to our Materials Engineering Rotational Program!

The Materials Engineering Rotational program provides the opportunity for a recent Materials Engineering/Metallurgical Engineering graduate to join Charter Steel on a full-time basis and rotate between different departments, accelerating their professional growth and development! The program offers the opportunity to work within the following concentrated areas of Charter Steel's business: Melt Shop, Rolling Mill, Processing Plant and Technical Services.

Candidates must be willing to relocate to any of the following Charter Steel locations:

  • Saukville, WI

  • Fostoria, OH

  • Cleveland, OH

What you'll need:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Materials Engineering.
  • Related internship or work experience.
  • High level of initiative for excellence, results, and process improvement.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrated abilities in planning and communication of ideas and concepts.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to work with individuals at all levels of the business.
  • Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
  • Demonstrated passion and intellectual curiosity within the steel industry and Materials field of study.
  • Willingness to travel as needed.

Preferred experience:

  • Experience in a manufacturing environment.

What you'll do:

  • Learn the operations of the plant and how metallurgical theories and practices are incorporated into those operations to improve the process.
  • Understand the effect of process changes on product performance.
  • Collect and communicate product quality data.
  • Perform Root Cause Analysis of process-related defects and effects on final products.
  • Assist in trouble-shooting and resolving customer complaints with failure analysis and metallographic interpretations.
  • Contribute to process improvements based on detailed analysis of quality parameters data and collaboration with outside technical resources and organizations.
  • Participate in Six Sigma, Orange Belt, and problem solving teams.
  • Answer inquiries from other departments and monitor production for problems or issues.
  • Conduct customer and internal tours based on product and process needs.

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