Senior Metallurgist

TUV Rheinland Solutions Ltd; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus

Company pension

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

EV salary sacrifice

Cycle to work

Job summary

TÜV Rheinland Solutions Ltd in Derby, UK, seeks an experienced Metallurgist to take a senior role in the Asset Integrity Management team based in our new Laboratory in Derby.

The successful candidate will lead metallurgical failure examinations, deliver formal reports, and develop client relationships, with occasional travel within the UK and abroad. A degree in metallurgy and 5+ years in failure analysis are required.

Qualifications

• Degree in metallurgy, materials science or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years’ industrial failure analysis experience in power industry or related sectors.
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading metallurgical failure examinations and reporting, including site visits as needed.
• Scheduling and prioritising failures arriving at TÜV Rheinland UK.
• Mentoring and developing less experienced investigators.
• Producing formal technical reports and project deliverables on time and to budget.
• Creating proposals and tender documents and developing new business.
• Developing relationships with clients and managing large investigations.
• Staying up-to-date with standards, legislation and best practice.

Skills

Ferrous metallurgy

Failure analysis

Root cause investigation

Communication

Report writing

Education

Degree in metallurgy or related field

Job description

About Us

TÜV Rheinland Solutions is an established and specialist risk management consulting, inspection and training company, and is part of the TÜV Rheinland Group. We help clients to manage health, safety, security, environmental (HSSE) and business risk in sectors where the impact of loss is high.

Our people are high calibre and motivated professionals, with a clear focus on meeting clients’ expectations. Our principal office is in Warrington, with other UK Offices in Aberdeen, Bristol, Derby, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Great Yarmouth, London and Stockton. We also have international offices in key locations in Europe, Middle East, South East Asia and North America. Our activities are supported by a comprehensive network of TÜV Rheinland offices and local representatives in other regions around the world. We are privileged to have many of the world’s best companies as clients in many sectors, including oil, gas and chemical, nuclear and defence, transport and renewables. We have delivered over 13,000 projects to over 1,800 clients in over 80 countries. Further information is available at (url removed)/

We are seeking an experienced Metallurgist (permanent role) to take up a senior position in its expanding Asset Integrity Management team based in our new Laboratory in Derby, UK.

The successful candidate will play a key role in leading and delivering solutions for our clients.

Most of the team’s activities are focussed on the Conventional Power and Clean Energy sectors (primarily CCGT, Biomass and Energy from Waste plants).

Responsibilities:

• Leading and delivering metallurgical failure examinations (includes laboratory work and formal reporting). This may include site visits to carry out investigations and inspections.
• Scheduling and prioritisation of failures arriving at TUV Rheinland UK.
• Mentoring and development of less experienced failure investigators.
• Producing formal technical reports and other project deliverables on time and to budget.
• Creating proposals and tender return documents and developing new business.
• Developing relationships with clients.
• Managing larger, project-based investigations.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of standards, legislation and good practice.
• The role may periodically involve short periods of travel, both within the UK and abroad, to meet project requirements.

Experience:

• Ferrous metallurgy, failure analysis and root cause investigation – experience in high temperature degradation mechanisms, including creep, and corrosion in biomass / energy from waste boilers would be a particular advantage.
• Worked within a power plant background. Alternatively, experience of damage / degradation mechanisms and life assessment associated with the oil & gas, petro-chem industries may be considered suitable.
• In addition, you must have excellent, communication and report writing skills.

Requirements:

• Minimum of a degree in metallurgy, materials science, materials engineering or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ industrial failure analysis experience related to the power industry (although other large industrial sectors such as petro-chem and oil & gas may be considered depending on experience).

What We Offer?

A competitive package of salary and benefits is offered for permanent staff this includes the following.

• Car allowance (dependent on grade).
• Bonus.
• Company pension contributions.
• Flexible and hybrid working.
• Private medical insurance.
• Sustainable benefits such as salary sacrifice for electric vehicles and cycle to work schemes.

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