Materials Engineer

Materials Engineer The Opportunity: 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. You Have 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 If You Have 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 Clearance Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required. 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