Materials Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Lorton, VA

2d•$99,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Become a part of our warfighter technology team delivering breakthrough technologies for our customers by providing innovative solutions that address critical mission challenges. As a long-term defense partner, Booz Allen delivers advanced technology that furthers essential priorities of the joint force, allies, and global partners. In this role, you will do that by working in a dynamic team that is responsible for developing, integrating, testing, and transitioning unique soft material technologies that result in emerging fieldable solutions for our defense customers. As a Materials Engineer on our team, you’ll apply materials science and engineering principles to develop, process, and test materials to support internal initiatives and government customers by executing product development efforts across internal and external teams. You’ll perform custom formulations, develop soft materials, generate test samples, coordinate with suppliers and manufacturers, and support materials projects that address critical mission outcomes. You’ll wear multiple hats such as a formulator, engineer, applied scientist, applicator, and technical expert, ensuring that materials solutions are aligned to mission priorities and progress in technology readiness and manufacturability. Your contributions will help drive technological solutions that support critical mission challenges. This role will require focus on technology maturation, transition, and integration within the defense industry, and technical project management. Specifically, the focus is around material science and chemical technologies. You will work on unusually complex problems and provide highly innovative solutions by collaborating with engineers, scientists, and mission experts. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience developing, testing, or evaluating coatings, adhesives, paints, or polymers to generate products for defense applications
3+ years of experience in product development, sustainment, manufacturing, or marketing
Knowledge of technology, manufacturing, and integration readiness levels, or the launch, maintenance, or sustainment of coating products
Ability to perform technology development within a laboratory setting for generating concepts, demonstrations, and validation activities
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in a Material Science, Chemistry, Physics, or Engineering field

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting the DoD with both contractual and technical requirements testing and evaluation, market research, technology scouting, material integration, procurement of development items, financial tracking, and schedule development
Experience managing multiple projects that are composed of multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, business professionals, vendors, and sub-contractors
Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, Kanban, or other project management styles
Master’s degree in Materials Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or a related field preferred
Doctorate degree in Materials Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or a related field a plus

Responsibilities

Develop, process, and test materials to support internal initiatives and government customers by executing product development efforts across internal and external teams.
Perform custom formulations and develop soft materials.
Generate test samples.
Coordinate with suppliers and manufacturers.
Support materials projects that address critical mission outcomes.
Ensure that materials solutions are aligned to mission priorities and progress in technology readiness and manufacturability.
Focus on technology maturation, transition, and integration within the defense industry.
Provide technical project management.
Work on unusually complex problems and provide highly innovative solutions by collaborating with engineers, scientists, and mission experts.