Senior Metallurgist

Manufacturing company requires a Senior Metallurgist Engineer for a contract role in Peterborough. You will provide materials engineering support across multiple UK facilities, providing opportunity to investigate a wide range of different materials in multiple applications. Your five years’ experience in metallurgy should be from automotive, aerospace, engineering etc. As a technical position you will also develop relationships across the UK business. General overview

• Resolving issues regarding the design or manufacturing. Ensuring design acceptance and manufacturing readiness.
• Participating in the adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement.
• Planning and improving testing procedures and operations to make the test more reliable, efficient, and cost-effective.
• Monitoring results, machine and process capabilities and performance reliability.

• Experience of non-metallics testing
• Deep experience of general metallurgy
• Experience of fluids testing / chemistry knowledge
• Experience of working in an ISO17025 accredited laboratory
• Materials Science/Metallurgy degree and/or substantive practical working experience within a materials laboratory environment
• Metallurgical / materials evaluation of new products, processes and or systems
• Engaging communicator; Able to convey technical assessments and results to both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Providing technical guidance on product and process maintenance
• Ability to Identify metallurgical / materials manufacturing defects and make process improvement recommendations