R&D Metals Applications Engineer

Are you a talented research & development professional eager to work at the cutting edge of combustion and metal-making technology? If so, you might be the right person for this position! Lunova Group seeks a highly skilled and inventive R&D Metals Applications Engineer for our client, a top provider of industrial and specialty gases used worldwide in virtually every branch of industry, commerce, science, and research. This position offers the opportunity to study and implement new technologies from inception through industrial scaling and to be recognized as a key technical contributor for a team developing and commercializing novel combustion and metal-making technologies. Your valuable expertise will impact steel-making worldwide.

Why Join the Team?

Our client is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, serving a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals. Their industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Our client’s mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies, and services makes their customers more successful and helps to sustain and protect our planet.

About the Role:

The R&D Metals Applications Engineer will conduct research and development activities with a high degree of autonomy in our client’s combustion lab and at customer industrial facilities. They will propose new technologies and solutions that lead to new development programs; plan and lead R&D projects from inception to completion; design, test, and demonstrate new technologies; and evaluate experimental data. By making recommendations to our client’s management and presenting results to customers in technical meetings, they will direct the future of the R&D agenda and position our client to remain at the head of the field.

R&D Metals Applications Engineer Responsibilities:

• Evaluate ideas on technical and commercial merit and in the context of the industrial gas business and propose new technologies and solutions that lead to new development programs.
• Inform decisions and strategies for existing development programs and for enhancing the technical strength of the department.
• Work within and across organizational and company boundaries to plan, lead, and coordinate R&D project development activities from program inception to completion and acceptance.
• Design and conduct testing and/or demonstration of new technologies in combustion lab and at customer industrial facilities. Evaluate experimental data and develop scientific and engineering understanding.
• Will be recognized internally as a key technical contributor to one or more fields of expertise.
• Research and understand the intellectual property landscape and identify opportunities around key areas of expertise, new technologies and processes. Prepare invention disclosures and supporting research for intellectual property protection.
• Work under minimal supervision with guidance only in the most complex situations.
• Write reports and making recommendations to management as to future directions of development programs. Present results to customers and at internal/external technical meetings.
• Support field demonstrations and commercialization of metals and combustion technologies worldwide.

R&D Metals Applications Engineer Requirements:

Minimum:

• Master’s Degree or PhD in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or Metallurgical Engineering (or other similar discipline) with at least 2 years of relevant industrial experience working in pyrometallurgical and/or primary metal-making industries.
• Proven record of successfully developing and commercially deploying novel technologies with a demonstrated ability to lead and execute R&D projects in an industrial environment.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of process design, unit operations, mass & energy balances, heat transfer, combustion, and reaction engineering.
• Creativity, and excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in complex situations.
• Results-oriented mindset.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Preferred:

• PhD in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• Working experience with METSIM/UNISIM process simulation software.
• Experience working in the industrial gases industry.
• Industrial experience in steel- or iron-making research and development.
• Experience focused on blast furnace/direct iron reduction ironmaking processes.