Metallurgist, Senior Metallurgist - Derby, United Kingdom - Risktec Solutions Ltd

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Metallurgist, Senior Metallurgist - Metallurgical Failure Analysis
TUV Rheinland UK is seeking an experienced metallurgist (permanent role) to take up a senior position in its expanding Asset Integrity Management team based in Derby, UK. The successful candidate will play a key role in leading and delivering solutions for our clients. Most the team's activities are focussed on the Conventional Power and Clean Energy sectors (primarily CCGT, Biomass and Energy from Waste plants).
Job Description:
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.

• As a Metallurgist / Senior Metallurgist looking to progress in their career, we are primarily looking for candidates who can perform metallurgical failure investigations on a wide range of components, and recommend specific corrective actions / strategies to avert further failures. As well as an extensive technical knowledge, the role requires that the successful candidate must also possess excellent communication and report writing skills.

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.