Metallurgical Engineer

SURVICE Engineering Company•Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

162d•$85,000 - $100,000•Onsite

About The Position

SURVICE Engineering is currently seeking a Metallurgical Engineer to support our Aberdeen Research Operation. You will accelerate your career and become an integral team member within the defense community.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgical or Materials Sciences
2+ years of relevant experience
Basic knowledge of materials and manufacturing technologies
Experience in mechanical testing
Knowledge and/or experience in structural alloy development
Knowledge and/or experience with machining
U.S. citizenship required

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and experience with structural alloy development
Knowledge and/or training in welding
Demonstrated experience with developing structure-processing-property relationships
Demonstrated expertise in structural alloy characterization and analysis
Author/co-author of publication(s) pertaining to structural alloy development
Lead presenter on conference presentation

Responsibilities

Develop novel alloys and post-processing to improve performance of conventionally produced cast, wrought, and welded structural metals.
Characterize novel materials and processes such that the performance improvements can be quantified for future Army systems integration.
Develop optimal heat treatment and alloying strategies to enhance the performance of structural metals across a range of Army protection and lethality applications.
Develop, demonstrate, prototype and evaluate new, improved or novel structural materials to enable technologies that can be applied with unique processing strategies.
Characterize the resulting material using metallography and electron microscopy to assess the microstructure of the alloy and thermal characterization and mechanical testing to assess the properties of the alloy.
Learn and develop expertise in machining (grinding, milling and grit blasting), casting, forging, rolling, welding, heat treatment, fixture and machine fabrication, materials characterization (polishing and microscopy), mechanical testing (tensile, hardness, and impact).
Document processing, characterization, and testing through written reports including graphical and statistical analysis.
Contextualize results with historic data from digital and hard-copy resources to determine trends and guide further investigation; utilization of machine learning models as well as standard trend fitting will be used to assess alloy and processing improvements.