Kurt Leopoldt Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Area

• Responsible for new product development, including quotes, cost-estimates, and support of hundreds of different part configurations across a variety of alloys. Front-to-back understanding of investment casting process.
• Responsible for timeline and weekly report out to specific customers regarding FA and production parts.
• Developed custom VBA Excel add-in for engineering, planning, and sales to pull and summarize common manufacturing and part-specific data twice as quickly as previous methods.
• Facilitated quarterly customer-focused Casting School which includes technical presentations and coordinating tours for over 50 customers annually (2017-2020).
• Assistant facility compliance officer tasked with supporting manufacturing and interfacing with customers to meet U.S. export requirements on all product (2020-present).

Vancouver, Washington (US Branch)

• Main resource for technical questions related to corrosion resistant alloys, especially super-duplex stainless steels. Coordinated material testing trials for the company and customers. Selected Contributions:
• Attained ISO 9001:2008 certification in July 2013 after overhauling quality system.
• Additionally responsible for shipping, receiving, production, and scheduling as of Sept. 2013.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Supervised and scheduled material testing laboratory while also supporting process development for newly installed vacuum carburizing furnace. Metallurgical resource for customer inquiries.Selected Contributions:
• Led root cause analysis of mechanical test property failures for a large aerospace customer relating to heat treatment of forgings.
• Developed processes for improving accuracy of endothermic and vacuum carburizing heat treatments.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Provided engineering support for production of titanium aerospace components. Streamlined part routing and gating in order to improve quality and reduce span.Selected Contributions:
• Created scheduling system for parts cast in three vacuum arc furnaces in the foundry.

Jonesboro, Arkansas Area

• Focused on multiple projects working in the hot mill, including assessing capability of vanadium-rich HSLA steels.Selected Contributions:
• Organized list of caster transitions to maximize mill productivity when switching steel grades.