Quality Control Mechanical

RIZWAN ASHRAF

Metallurgical & Materials science Engineer

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Contact Number 732-***-****

Permanent resident (USA green card)

17R PARK WOOD DRIVE SOUTH AMBOY, NJ, 08879

Experience

FRIGZ International, Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan

August 2007 – December 2011

FRIGZ international makes different steel, nickel, copper, Aluminum, cobalt alloys and fabricates these alloys in the form of sheets, plates, bars, rods, wires, strips etc. FRIGZ fabricates different alloys for automotive, medical, defense and for many other sectors. FRIGZ international has joint venture with German and Japanese companies.

Quality control manager August 2010-December 2011

• Maintained quality control of product.

• Established/maintained SOP’s for quality assurance, cost reduction and process improvement.

• Customer satisfaction about quality issues and initiated corrective actions in order to solve customer complaints.

• Inspected/evaluated product performance.

• Established/maintain quality standard according to ISO, ASTM and customer’s requirements.

• Daily review of process variable for quality control.

• Provided metallurgical assistance to production department and customers.

• Performed all metallurgical, mechanical, non-destructive and chemical testing to ensure the product quality and customers satisfaction.

• Maintained the Met lab standards, equipment and procedure according to ISO standards.

• Evaluated microstructural analysis and studied the effect of microstructure on physical, mechanical properties by using metallurgical microscope and SEM.

• Evaluated physical characteristics, chemical properties, mechanical properties etc.

• Participated in new materials development.

• Evaluated microstructural analysis and studied the effects of microstructure on physical, mechanical properties by using metallurgical microscope and SEM.

• Performed metallography.

• Evaluated the solidification process of different alloys.

Production manager March 2009-August 2010

• Controlled steel melting process.

• Controlled continuous casting, die casting and ingot casting operations.

• Developed efficient manufacturing methods.

• Performed/controlled hot rolling and cold rolling.

• Maintained forging operations (hot and cold forging operations).

• Established/maintained thermo mechanical processing.

• Performed heat treatment such as like annealing, normalizing, hardening, carburizing, quenching, tempering, flame hardening etc.

• Performed finishing operations.

• Maintained metallurgical composition control of steel, nickel, copper, cobalt and aluminum alloys.

• Maintained process control for casting in order to produce sound casting.

• Daily review of process variables for smooth running of production line.

• Participated in continuous process improvement.

Trainee engineer (part time) August 2007-March 2009

• Practiced different melting techniques like VIM, VAR, ESR

• Evaluated the effects of rolling mill exit temperature on mechanical properties and grain size of nickel based alloys.

• Evaluated the effects of cold rolling on microstructure and mechanical properties.

• Evaluated the strain hardening effect.

• Established/maintained rolling parameters like rolling temperature, roll diameter, roll speed, angle on contact, neutral point, rolling load etc.

• Evaluated the effects of heat treatment on different alloys.

• Evaluated the working of different rolling mills like two high mill, four high mill, cluster mill, planetary mill etc.

• Evaluated hot forging and cold forging process.

• Evaluated wire drawing operations.

Pakistan Railways Workshops, Lahore, Pakistan, July 2008-August 2008

Pakistan railways workshops is the manufacturing, fabricating and repairing facility of Pakistan railways, this is a government organization, which manufacture railways engines, railway lines and fabricate materials for it. Pakistan railways workshops have larger melting, rolling, forging, casting, welding and many other departments, these departments manufacture and fabricate different alloys. Pakistan Railways has largest fabrication shop in South Asia.

Industrial internship

Worked with my trainee supervisor in melting shop and practiced different melting techniques.

• Evaluated hot and cold rolling process.

• Evaluated forging operations and finishing process.

• Performed ingot casting practice of different alloys.

• Performed die casting and continuous casing practice.

• Evaluated the root cause of casting defects like porosity, pinholes, inclusions, short casting.

• Evaluated the solidification process of different alloys.

• Performed microstructural analysis.

Additional work experience

TIPS, Sialkot, Pakistan

January 2004-August 2007

TIPS, is a high school in Sialkot, one of larger school in Sialkot.

High school teacher of physics, chemistry and mathematics

EDUCATION

University of engineering and technology Lahore, Pakistan

B.SC in metallurgical and materials engineering, October 2009

GICS, Sialkot, Pakistan

F.SC in pre-engineering, June 2005

Professional affiliations

• American society of mechanical engineers

• American society of testing and materials

• Pakistan foundry and casting association

• Sialkot material testing laboratory

• Pakistan council of scientific and industrials research

LANGUAGE &COMPUTER SKILLS

• Excellent ENGLISH Language skills writing, listening and speaking.

• software SOLID EDGE, Mat lab, Auto cad

• Windows 7, XP, vista, 2000, 98 etc.

• Adobe Acrobat Reader, Writer

• MS office(word, excel, power point, paint)

Additional languages

Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi

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