Senior Engineer - Heat & Surface Treatment
Hagerstown, MD, US, 21742
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
Position Summary
The Senior Engineer – Heat & Surface Treatment serves as Hagerstown’s technical specialist for heat treatment and surface technologies. This role drives process innovation, capability, quality, and reliability across heat treatment, induction hardening, shot peening, coatings, and surface finishing. The position provides technical leadership for complex manufacturing challenges and partners with Operations, Metallurgy, Quality, Maintenance, suppliers, and Volvo’s global technical network to advance sustainable, world-class manufacturing solutions.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Serve as Hagerstown’s technical specialist for heat treatment and surface technologies.
• Lead improvements in heat treatment, induction hardening, shot peening, coating, and surface finishing.
• Drive process innovation, capability, quality, and reliability toward world-class performance.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and failure analysis using metallurgical and data-driven methods.
• Develop and implement state-of-the-art manufacturing solutions and process technologies.
• Provide technical leadership for new products, equipment investments, and process changes.
• Partner with Operations, Metallurgy, Quality, Maintenance, suppliers, and Volvo’s global technical network to deliver results.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that improve machining performance, including advanced analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.
Qualifications
Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or a related field. A degree in Mechanical Engineering may be considered with strong heat-treatment and metallurgy experience.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in heat treatment, metallurgy, or surface engineering.
• Strong knowledge of ferrous metallurgy and industrial heat-treatment processes.
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve complex manufacturing and metallurgical problems.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Advanced knowledge of ferrous metallurgy, heat-treatment processes, and surface-engineering technologies.
• Understanding of manufacturing process capability, quality, reliability, and failure-analysis methods.
• Knowledge of emerging manufacturing technologies, including advanced process controls, automation, analytics, and Industry 4.0 concepts.
• Metallurgical and data-driven troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor complex technical information to the audience.
• Collaboration and stakeholder-management skills across manufacturing, technical, supplier, and global teams.
• Technical leadership skills for new products, equipment investments, and process changes.
• Ability to take ownership, work independently, and involve others when appropriate.
• Ability to combine technical depth, data, and production input to make sound decisions.
• Ability to welcome different perspectives, respond constructively to feedback, and adapt to new ways of working.
• Ability to challenge existing methods, share knowledge, and drive continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with advanced process controls, automation, analytics, or Industry 4.0 technologies.
Experience implementing innovative manufacturing or process technologies in an industrial environment.
Key Competencies
• Accountability
• Collaboration
• Continuous Improvement
• Innovation
• Results Orientation
• Adaptability
• Technical Leadership
Team and Reporting Relationships
This position reports to the Machining Engineering Manager and joins a collaborative team of machining engineers supporting Hagerstown manufacturing. The role works closely with local Metallurgy and manufacturing teams, as well as Volvo’s global Heat and Surface Treatment network.
Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Trucks Technology & Industrial Division hire team players who are ready to create real customer impact. Our decentralized teams work close to our customers, with speed and autonomy, to build what they truly need.
Join us to collaborate on innovative, sustainable technologies that redefine how we design, build, and deliver value. Bring your curiosity, your expertise, and your collaborative energy, and together, we’ll turn bold ideas into tangible solutions for our customers and contribute to a more sustainable tomorrow.
Nearest Major Market: Hagerstown