Senior Materials Engineer

FLIR; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company in Chelmsford is seeking a Materials Engineer to support product delivery and quality through failure analysis and technical investigations. The role requires experience in material analysis and the ability to problem solve in a laboratory environment. Ideal candidates will be knowledgeable in SEM operation and high temperature joining techniques. This position offers a collaborative work atmosphere working with experienced engineers and technicians.

Qualifications

• Experience in material analysis through inspection methods.
• Understanding of high temperature joining techniques.
• Ability to interpret SEM and EDX data.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed material and assembly failure analysis.
• Support technical investigations across teams.
• Produce technical reports for various internal customers.
• Manage lab equipment related to material testing.
• Collaborate with lab functions for thorough analysis.
• Act as a materials engineering point of contact.

Skills

Material analysis

Failure analysis techniques

Technical report writing

Team collaboration

Problem-solving

Tools

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Optical microscopy

Grinding and polishing equipment

Job description

Overview

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Business Overview:

Teledyne e2v is a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical, science, aerospace, defence and industrial applications.

Our products are everywhere, hospitals, planes, ships and even outer space, but you will only see them if you know where to look.

Working with us will enable you to develop and gain experience in the ideas that are behind some of the most advanced technologies in the world. You will also get a chance to work alongside highly experienced engineers, technicians and scientists.

Our products do many things including saving people’s lives by finding and treating cancer, helping map our planet and the universe and freezing the atom down to 0° Kelvin.

With a long and enviable history of technical and scientific innovation, Teledyne e2v is always working at the forefront of technology.

The Role

As a materials engineer you will provide support to the business using your knowledge and area expertise to ensure fit and suitable manufacturing processes and parts. Using a combination of failure analysis investigation techniques, you will help solve technical issues to ensure product delivery and quality.

A key aspect of this individual is someone that can operate in task driven, laboratory environment working with a team of specialist technicians and engineers. You will be required to understand unfamiliar processes to identify and develop technical manufacturing solutions. The ability to problem solve and demonstrate adaptability is essential.

This role would suit an individual who is interested in working in a multi-disciplinary laboratory environment who thrives on understanding and solving technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Perform material and assembly failure analysis in a detailed, systematic, thorough manor
• Support the broader business via manufacturing, engineering and quality teams in technical investigations.
• Produce technical reports for a variety of internal customers both technical and non-technical customers
• Manage lab equipment - grinding and polishing equipment, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscope
• Work in a collaborate manor using other functions of the lab to ensure robust and well-rounded analysis
• Act as a point of contact as a materials engineer to provide on hand technical advice
• Engage and support risk assessments for technical processes and equipment

Essential experience

• Material analysis through conventional techniques and inspection methods such as micro section and light microscopy.
• Operation and interpretation of SEM and EDX techniques and data.
• Good understanding of the fundamentals of high temperature joining techniques including brazing and welding.

Examples of Experience

• Experience with assembly and failure mode of vacuum electronic assemblies.
• Experience with the metallurgy of copper, nickel-copper alloys, steels and braze alloys
• Processing of components for the assembly of vacuum electronics.
• Adhesive selection and properties analysis
• Assess, interpret and review technical drawings to confirm design intent and manufacturing suitability.
• Mechanical destructive testing
• Experience with non-destructive techniques, suitabilities and uses

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.