Digital Printing Development Scientist

BlueScope; Port Kembla; Presencial; AUD 110 000 - 140 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

BlueScope is seeking a Digital Printing Development Specialist for the Product Innovation & Technology team. This hands-on role advances digital printing for BlueScope’s painted products, combining coating knowledge with lab experiments, technology evaluation and manufacturing trials to turn ideas into practical product systems.

You will build expertise in Digital Printing, inks and related technologies while collaborating with engineers and product specialists to shape the future of BlueScope’s

Qualificações

• A tertiary qualification in engineering, chemistry, materials science, polymer science or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience in painted or coated product development, including practical understanding of coating systems and their performance.
• Demonstrated capability in experimental design and laboratory development work.

Responsabilidades

• investigate future Digital Printing opportunities across finishes, effects, surface textures and longer-term solid-colour printing
• apply painted product knowledge to understand how substrates, pretreatments, primers, basecoats, inks and clearcoats interact within a Digital Printing system
• monitor emerging digital printing equipment, printhead and ink technologies and assess their potential application and compatibility with painted product systems
• design and undertake laboratory experiments, developing hypotheses, experimental plans and test methods
• analyse technical results and translate findings into practical recommendations and next steps
• take laboratory concepts through to executable manufacturing line trials and provide technical input when results differ from expectations
• work closely with painted product specialists to develop and assess Digital Printing concepts as complete painted product systems

Conhecimentos

Painted product development

Coating systems knowledge

Laboratory experimentation

Experimental design

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Digital Printing

Ink technologies

Formação académica

Tertiary qualification in engineering, chemistry, materials science, polymer science or similar

Descrição da oferta de emprego

BlueScope is seeking a Digital Printing Development Specialist for the Product Innovation & Technology team. This hands-on role advances digital printing for BlueScope’s painted products, combining coating knowledge with lab experiments, technology evaluation and manufacturing trials to turn ideas into practical product systems.

You will build expertise in Digital Printing, inks and related technologies while collaborating with engineers and product specialists to shape the future of BlueScope’s