Aerospace Lab Technician - Friction & Wear Testing

8974 DuPont Specialty Products USA, LLC; Valley View (OH); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont's Vespel® lab in Valley View, Ohio seeks a Lab Technician to support the Aerospace Dry Wear & Friction COE. You will perform mechanical, thermal, and wear testing under TS&D guidance and help ensure timely results for material and application development.

Ideal candidates hold an associate degree in a technical field, demonstrate strong reading of technical documents, and work effectively in a fast-paced lab environment. Proficiency with MS Office and safety culture is expected.

Qualifications

• Associates degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to read and interpret technical documents, customer specifications and test reports.
• Bias for action, integrity, strong interpersonal skills, solid time management skills, ability to work with minimal supervision, and superior communication skills are required competencies.
• Experience in a lab environment with MTS Load Frames (Static and Dynamic TestSuite™ Software), Perkin Elemer TMA, TGA, DMA.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PP, Microsoft Work, and Sharepoint).
• Experience in a lab environment with safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to DuPont Core Values, Respect for People, Highest Ethical Behavior and Protecting the Plant with a high degree of focus on Safety and Heath
• Perform lab tasks with guidance from TS&D in the following areas: Conduct application specific, mechanical, thermal, and friction & wear tests
• Report data and store per internal guidance
• Adhere to Test Methods and Industry test standards
• Support R&D on material development testing
• Support TS&D and Operations on failure analysis and material characterization
• Work with local machine shop(s) for test fixtures and samples
• Lead and coordinate external testing requests
• Perform part performance analysis on specialized test equipment (Aerospace Specific)
• Support TS&D with product evaluations, data generation programs, laboratory designed functional testing in support of business objectives
• Continuously improve COE capabilities, lead new capability proposal process, workflow processes, and safety culture
• Prepare data with guidance from TS&D, for product literature, sales tools and case stories for new and existing products
• Prepare customer and internal Test Reports as necessary and be able to understand and discuss results as dictated by business needs

Skills

Laboratory testing

Reading technical documents

Organization & time management

Communication skills

Education

Associate degree in a technical field

Tools

MTS Load Frames

PerkinElmer TMA

TGA

DMA

Job description

DuPont's Vespel® lab in Valley View, Ohio seeks a Lab Technician to support the Aerospace Dry Wear & Friction COE. You will perform mechanical, thermal, and wear testing under TS&D guidance and help ensure timely results for material and application development.

Ideal candidates hold an associate degree in a technical field, demonstrate strong reading of technical documents, and work effectively in a fast-paced lab environment. Proficiency with MS Office and safety culture is expected.