R&D ENGINEER in Holytown

Mersen is a global expert in electrical specialties and advanced materials for high-tech industries. Present in 32 countries with 50 industrial sites and 24 R&D centres, Mersen develops custom solutions and supplies key products to meet the new technological challenges that will shape tomorrow's world. For more than 130 years, Mersen has been constantly innovating to support and satisfy its customers' needs with the same high standards. Be it in wind power, solar power, electronics, electric vehicles, aeronautics, space or countless other sectors, wherever technology is progressing, you will always find a bit of Mersen.

Key responsibilities include:

• Participating in defining a relevant voice of customer to identify pertinent and impactful developments, working with the marketing, sales, and production teams.
• Leveraging personal, existing internal knowledge, and external resources to effectively progress ideas and projects.
• Conceiving, developing and perfecting new products and processes.
• Developing existing products and processes.
• Performing laboratory and pilot-scale trials to confirm hypotheses and address any initial complications.
• Organizing and driving scaled up/production trials for products and processes under development, to perfect manufacturing procedures.
• Contributing to the production of written manufacturing procedures in relation to new products and ensure successful production through monitoring and assistance.
• Leveraging laboratory equipment to enhance understanding of the material properties of our products.
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental procedures within the scope of their mission, with the help of management.
• Contributing to the taking out of patents, and publication of academic literature.
• Providing technical support to internal stakeholders.
• Running technical missions at the clients' facilities when required.
• Maintaining our understanding of our critical competitors’ features, to drive our competitiveness.

Who are we looking for? We are looking for a self-driven, teamwork-oriented individual that is passionate about innovation. Key attributes include:

• A drive for results - being able to achieve and exceed project goals successfully, making the right decisions, being bottom-line oriented, while steadfastly pushing themself and others for results.
• Project management skills - knows how to implement the principles, techniques, and tools used in planning, control, monitoring, and review of projects.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of projects with interdependencies, mobilising the necessary resources for the project purpose.
• Efficient communicator – clear and concise report writing and presentation.
• Agility to adjust the materials to fit the audience, strongly getting the message across.
• Teamwork – will be a part of a varied technical team, the candidate must be confident and capable when working with others.
• Independence – the candidate must be able to effectively progress self-driven idea generation (literature/market review) and scoping projects.
• Curiosity and a keen interest in learning – required to quickly become well-versed in our products and processes, in addition to effectively adapting to shifting market needs and new markets.

Education: A master’s degree in engineering or science, or equivalent extensive experience.

Professional experience: at least 3 years required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. The job titles do not mean the male variant but stand for the gender-neutral designation of the profession according to Wikipedia. People are welcome regardless of gender, origin, sexual orientation, and religion.