What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Laboratory Manager position at PRI Global?
Materials Laboratory Manager
Newark, CA (onsite)
Contract
Qualifications:
- Min. 5 years of experience as a materials or materials test engineer
- Experience in the development and characterization of new materials and/or processes.
- Familiarity with integrated computational material engineering (ICME) workflows or systems design.
- Understanding of process-structure-property relationships in metallic materials.
- In-depth understanding of material property evaluations using a first principles approach.
- Expertise in uniaxial tensile testing, 3 pt bend testing, compression testing, microhardness testing, cross sectioning, mounting/polishing, and optical microscopy.
- Competence in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) including Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), microstructure analysis, and practical fractography.
- Knowledge of Differential Mechanical Analysis (DMA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), fatigue testing.
- Knowledge of environmental testing such as humidity, UV exposure, and corrosion is a plus.
- Knowledge of spot weld characterization is a plus.
Education:
- BS in Materials/Metallurgical Engineering or other relevant fields.
Preferred:
- MS/PhD in/Materials/ Metallurgical Engineering.
- Experience with leading a team of materials/materials test engineers.
