Metallurgical Engineer

Why SURVICE? Come join the SURVICE Engineering mission to protect, enhance, and enable those who defend the United States. Since 1981, we have supported the DoD community, as well as Homeland Security, advanced technologies, environmental, and commercial markets. Our employees have backgrounds in engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, acquisition, technical writing, training, and other technical and administrative fields. And many of our personnel have DoD and/or operational military experience. We offer a challenging and rewarding career with a leading organization. Position Metallurgical Engineer Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland Security Clearance: Active Clearance or Eligible to Obtain – U.S. citizenship required Salary: $85,000 – $100,000 Depending on Experience and Education Travel: 5% Benefits: SURVICE Engineering offers a total rewards package to include competitive salaries, comprehensive insurance options, paid time off, 401k, flexible spending, tuition reimbursement. Position Summary 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. Primary Duties and Responsibilities Develop novel alloys and post-processing to improve performance of conventionally produced cast, wrought, and welded structural metals. In particular, the researcher will characterize novel materials and processes such that the performance improvements can be quantified for future Army systems integration. The researcher would help develop optimal heat treatment and alloying strategies to enhance the performance of structural metals across a range of Army protection and lethality applications. Knowledge and proper application of metals characterization and testing methods is critical to develop the structure-property-processing relationships that inform Army systems level materials selection. The developed alloys and processing technologies are intended to optimize weight, performance, and/or durability, and where possible, optimize manufacturing and processing technologies that minimize cost and maximize functionality. Develop, demonstrate, prototype and evaluate new, improved or novel structural materials to enable technologies that can be applied with unique processing strategies. The researcher would then 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. Knowing both, the researcher will then modify future materials to further improve upon the alloy. The researcher would be expected to learn (if not already familiar with) 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). Support tasks are complex and require a strong multidisciplinary scientific, physics, and engineering background. The researcher will document processing, characterization, and testing through written reports including graphical and statistical analysis. Further contextualization of results with historic data from digital and hard-copy resources will be required 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. Minimum Qualifications of Metallurgical Engineer 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 Preferred/Optional: 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 About Us SURVICE Engineering is a nationally recognized, single-source engineering service provider for Government and Industry organizations involved in all phases of the systems engineering process. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and they are proud to have supported the development, testing, analysis, and modeling and simulation (M&S) of many of the major U.S. air, land, and sea combat systems in the field today. They have also contributed their expertise to other vital national defense programs and technologies that involve survivability, cybersecurity, information technology/management, software engineering, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and metrology/reverse engineering. SURVICE Engineering is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor #J-18808-Ljbffr