Metallurgist, Senior Metallurgist

You will be an accomplished metallurgist with proven history in one or more of the following industries: Power Plant industry i.e., Nuclear, Fossil Fired & Combined Cycle, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Aerospace or Marine.

In addition, these abilities are of great interest:

- Ferrous metallurgy experience in high temperature degradation mechanisms, including creep, and corrosion in biomass / energy from waste boilers.
- A power plant background. Alternatively, experience of damage / degradation mechanisms and life assessment associated with the oil & gas, petro-chem.

**Duties and responsibilities will include**:

- Leading and delivering metallurgical failure examinations (includes laboratory work and formal reporting). This may include site visits to carry out investigations and inspections.
- Scheduling and prioritisation of failures arriving at TUV Rheinland UK.
- Mentoring and development of less experienced failure investigators.
- Producing formal technical reports and other project deliverables on time and to budget.
- Creating proposals and tender return documents and developing new business.
- Developing relationships with clients.
- Managing larger, project-based investigations.
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of standards, legislation and good practice.

The role may occasionally involve short periods of travel, both within the UK and abroad, to meet project requirements.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of a degree in metallurgy, materials science, materials engineering or related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years’ industrial **Failure Analysis **Ideally this would be related to the power industry (although other large industrial sectors such as petro-chem, oil & gas, aerospace may be considered depending on experience).

**Rewards**:

- A competitive package of salary and benefits is offered for permanent staff, including profit share, private medical insurance, and contributions into a pension scheme. Flexible home-working arrangements, but with minimum of three days in the office / week.

**To Apply**:
Please supply us an updated CV which includes a brief overview of the range of failed components and failure mechanisms you have worked on or have experience with.