Metallurgist / Materials Engineer
Peterborough
£34 - £37 FCSA Umbrella (Inside IR35)
5 days per week on site in Peterborough
A Materials Engineer has become available with one of the world's leading manufacturers of Machinery & bespoke systems.
As a metallurgical / materials engineer within the business, you will partner with and provide technical guidance to other teams. You will have the ability to gather relevant information, compare & contrast data, identify relationships, and predict and identify failures. Decisions may affect the work group or project team, suppliers, multiple units, and both internal and external customers. These decisions have significant impact on warranty, total cost of non-quality, customer perception, costs, sales, and the leveraging of technology.
You will support manufacturing facilities UK/Europe wide, being involved in investigating a wide range of different materials in multiple applications.
Responsibilities:
1. Resolve issues regarding design or manufacturing, ensuring design acceptance and manufacturing readiness.
2. Participate in the adoption of new technologies and processes to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction, and quality improvement.
3. Plan and improve testing procedures and operations to make the tests more reliable, efficient, and cost-effective.
4. Monitor results, machine and process capabilities, and performance reliability.
This position will be accountable for contributing to the identification, analysis, and resolution of needs in the Materials Engineering field. The candidate will be seen as a highly proficient engineer within their field. This Materials Engineer position performs complex analysis work, identifies and resolves problems. The major focus of the job is on technical delivery. Incumbents may work more directly with different units, suppliers, and customers. This requires the ability to communicate technical information in a concise and accurate manner.
Decisions may significantly impact product performance, durability, quality, reliability, and serviceability; negotiations with suppliers; leveraging new technologies; warranty; total cost of non-quality; costs; sales; and customer perception.
The role is expected to initially be at least a 12-month contract position, but likely to become a long-term, ongoing, rolling contract based in Peterborough. The role is deemed inside IR35 FCSA Umbrella rate £34.00 to £37.00 (DOE). PAYE also available (£22 - £26 ph).
Minimum Requirements:
1. Demonstrated ability to work independently in the field of Materials Engineering.
2. Expertise in a number of the following fields:
1. Metallic Materials Processing - Heat Treatment, Casting, Forging, etc.
2. Non-Metallic Materials Processing - Injection moulding, Friction welding, Blow Forming, Elastomer Processing, etc.
3. Failure analysis for Metallic and/or Non-metallic materials.
4. Laboratory or comparable industry experience.
5. Mechanical Testing.
6. Chemical Analysis.
7. Corrosion Testing.
This is an onsite position, 5 days per week in Peterborough. Please apply for further details.
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