Digital Printing R&D Specialist – Coatings

BlueScope Steel Limited; New South Wales; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueScope Steel Limited invites applications for a Digital Printing Development Specialist within our Product Innovation & Technology team. This hands-on role combines painting knowledge with lab work, technology evaluation and manufacturing trials to turn digital printing concepts into practical painted product systems.

You will design experiments, analyze results and collaborate with coatings and manufacturing teams to advance our digital printing capability across finishes and textures for

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, chemistry, materials science, polymer science or similar.
• Experience in painted or coated product development.
• Knowledge of substrates, pretreatments, primers, topcoats/basecoats interactions.
• Experience in technical product, process or materials development.
• Demonstrated capability in experimental design and laboratory development work.
• Ability to analyse technical results and recommend practical steps.
• Strong collaboration across technical and operational teams.
• Curiosity to build expertise in Digital Printing, inks and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Investigate future Digital Printing opportunities across finishes, textures and long-term solid-colour printing.
• Apply painted product knowledge to understand interactions within a Digital Printing system.
• Monitor emerging digital printing equipment, printhead and ink technologies and assess applications.
• Design and undertake laboratory experiments with hypotheses and test methods.
• Analyse results and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Take laboratory concepts through to manufacturing line trials and provide input when results differ.
• Collaborate with painted product specialists to develop Digital Printing concepts as complete painted product systems.

Skills

Painted products knowledge

Lab experimentation

Experimental design

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Digital Printing

Problem solving

Education

Engineering/Chemistry degree

Tools

Laboratory equipment

Job description

BlueScope Steel Limited invites applications for a Digital Printing Development Specialist within our Product Innovation & Technology team. This hands-on role combines painting knowledge with lab work, technology evaluation and manufacturing trials to turn digital printing concepts into practical painted product systems.

You will design experiments, analyze results and collaborate with coatings and manufacturing teams to advance our digital printing capability across finishes and textures for