Senior Metallurgist - Job Profile

Academic Qualifications

Degree, HND or HNC (or equivalent) in Metallurgy or Material Science.

Experience

At least 5 but preferably 10 years spent carrying out component failure investigation as the major part of duties. This should also include a majority of the following:

Familiarity with the following failure conditions

Fatigue (low and high cycle), stress corrosion and mechanical overload

General, pitting, crevice, deposit, galvanic and intergranular corrosion

Corrosion arising from Bacterial activity.

Carbon dioxide corrosion.

Hydrogen sulphide corrosion.

Metal embrittlement by hydrogen, liquid metal or very low temperature.

Overheating, Sulphidation, High temperature oxidation and creep

Erosion and cavitation.

An understanding of design, material selection shortcomings and environmental conditions associated with the above failure conditions.

Hands on experience of laboratory procedures for metallography (preparation and etching) including the use of portable equipment.

Knowledge of metallographic procedures such as grain size and phase count determinations.

Use of laboratory equipment such as optical and scanning electron microscopes

Use of all or most of the following testing equipment

Vickers Hardness machine

Rockwell hardness machine

Brinell hardness machine

Portable hardness test equipment

Charpy Impact testing

Tensile testing (including hot tensiles)

Use of photographic equipment for normal and macro-photography

Knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of the following techniques

Spark emission spectroscopy

X-ray fluorescence analysis

Energy Dispersive analysis

X-ray diffraction analysis

Fracture toughness testing

Dealing with clients (internal and preferably external to the Company). This will include telephone, fax or e-mail and face to face contact and the preparation of scope of work proposals and presentations and/or reports on work carried out.

Experience of industrial processes is required preferably in more than one industry.

Experience of one or more of the following processes are considered useful, together with knowledge of the material problems associated with each:-

Heat treatment – through hardening, case hardening (carburising, nitriding), surface hardening (induction or flame), annealing (full and sub-critical), precipitation hardening, dispersion hardening.

Steel making and control.

Foundry control (various alloys).

Forging stamping and pressing.

Plating (electro- or electro less).

Welding and brazing (ferrous and non-ferrous)

Surface coatings (paint, glass flake, etc.).

Machining (cutting, thread rolling).

Familiarity with carbon, low alloy and stainless steels (including high manganese and duplex stainless steel).

Familiarity with steels and some of the following materials in both wrought, cast or sintered form as appropriate:-

Brasses Bronzes

Aluminium alloys Titanium alloys

Nickel alloys Cobalt alloys

Models High temperature alloys

Tungsten carbide Iron (cast, wrought & malleable)

Other requirements

Familiarity with WORD, Excel, Outlook, image processing software and internet use.

Must have a current driving license and passport.

Proven ability to work alone and as part of a team. Experience as a team leader would be considered useful.

Advanced computer literacy would also be useful as well as some knowledge of computer systems and simple programming techniques.