Materials Science Job Description
Materials science
provides guidance to faculty, staff and students regarding all aspects of lab utilization including training and use of complex and highly specialized equipment and lab protocols.
Materials Science Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective materials science job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included materials science job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Advanced architectures for phase-change-based thermal management
Manage experienced professionals and oversee the work of areas, functionalities, and locations and have some budgetary responsibilities
Meeting privately with undergraduate students to review academic progress
Reviewing and maintaining all undergraduate student records (grades, declaration of majors/minors, academic actions, graduation certifications)
Assisting with the development of the advising program to address specific needs
Evaluate material deformation behavior and rheology characteristics
Identify material and process interactions during development by applying materials science and process knowledge to enable robust scale-up and commercialization
Develop process understanding of unit operations and identify critical process parameters
Collaborate within cross-functional CMC team(s) to define and execute development strategies that enable the successful launch of our drug products
Write technical reports and deliver presentations to technical, CMC and project groups
Materials Science Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Materials Science
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: WAQTC, AWS, III, NDT, ASNT
Education for Materials Science
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the materials science job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Technical, Graduate, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Education
Skills for Materials Science
Desired skills for materials science include:
Lab procedures and capable of keeping accurate lab records
Testing and characterization equipment
Manufacturing processes
Office procedures
Effective strategies for working with diverse faculty
Staff and students
Advanced technology and diagnostics operational optimization experience of analytical equipment
Analytical techniques
Specifically electron/ion microscopes and various energy dispersive spectrometers
Advanced
Desired experience for materials science includes:
Sophomore or Junior pursing a degree in Materials Science or Metallurgical Engineering
Anna, OH (45 minutes north of Dayton, OH)
Marysville, OH (45 minutes northwest of Columbus, OH)
East Liberty, OH (55 minutes northwest of Columbus, OH)
Russells Point, OH (30 minutes northwest of Marysville, OH)
Greensburg, IN
Materials Science Examples
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Materials Science Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of materials science. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for materials science
- Participate in setting and communicating department strategy to support company vision
- Identify new technologies
- Mentor managers within the department, and provide coaching to leaders within project teams from other departments
- Establish credibility and effectively influence executives and peers across the organization through clear and concise written and oral communications
- Energy usage in manufacturing and in-service energy saving, in transport and construction applications
- Communicating effectively, via verbal and written means, with management, coworkers, and suppliers
- Specific proposals and offerings to company objectives by working with business unit product management and commercial product sales teams
- Conduct regular key account reviews and business updates to key stakeholders within the customer company and within the Molecular Spectroscopy business unit
- Owns Strategic Account Headquarter Relationships to identify new business opportunities and supports geographic account activities
- Territory Development – Identify potential client targets and develop relationships in the assigned territory to grow the region and increase awareness of the materials science capabilities
Qualifications for materials science
- Extensive experience in linkages between thermodynamic database and phase-field methods
- Experience in developing and applying phase field methods in a system with hierarchical and/or porous structures
- Candidates must have received a PhD in computational physics, computational materials science, materials science, or closely related area within the past three years from an accredited college or university
- Candidates should be able to routinely work with a measure of autonomy and a willingness to participate in a collaborative team environment
- Candidates should have developed an ability to design and perform independent scientific research, which may be demonstrated by a strong publication record
- PhD in any domain related to mechanical/aero/bio engineering, electronics, materials science or applied physics
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Materials Science Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a materials science. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for materials science
- Commercial Process Management – manage contractual processes including Confidentiality agreements, Preferred provider / Master Services agreements / pricing agreements
- Development of service opportunities & growth – partner with service providers to deliver strategic full service offering and programs
- Reporting – provide account status reports as required on a local or global basis as appropriate – integrate Sales Force.com as part of daily work to ensure accurate reporting
- Continuous improvement – identify opportunities for standardized work, and improvement of quality and service with client group
- Serves as expert in the use and operation of all laboratory equipment within the North America (NA) Packaging network
- Trains new employees and interns in the proper and safe use of facilities
- Conducts validation testing to predict package and component performance, durability, consumer function & reliability
- Qualifies all capital tooling prior to production use
- Analyzes data and delivers results that provide direction to Packaging Engineers
- Creates technical drawings (CAD) that maintain internal standards and support specifications
Qualifications for materials science
- Strong analytical skills and a flair for innovation
- Ability to work independently while also contributing to team-oriented projects
- Deep understanding of applicable physics and ability to translate that knowledge into industrial impact
- Graduate level coursework on physical and mechanical metallurgy of metallic alloys
- Knowledge in materials characterization technique
- The jobholder must have an equivalent of a Doctorate in Chemistry with at least 5 years experience working in a scientific function in polymer and materials science
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Materials Science Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a materials science. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for materials science
- Participates in the development of a three year plan for laboratory needs
- Interacts cross-functionally across all levels of McCormick
- Participates in project planning activities
- Ensures often demanding deadlines and customer expectations are met
- Diligently maintain a record of customer visits and interactions using the CRM platform salesforce.com completed by the end of each week
- Perform experiments in the areas of polymorphism and salt screening in pharmaceutical systems
- Display understanding of mechanisms behind the formation and interconversion of amorphous and crystalline forms in pharmaceutical systems
- Develop utilization of a range of solid-state characterization techniques (XRPD, DSC, TGA, TGA-IR, optical microscopy) to analyze and understand solid-state behavior
- Updating the existing STREAMM code as required to support additional features for an updated code release
- Programming unit tests of the functionality that was added after the last release
Qualifications for materials science
- A Bachelors and a Master’s Degree in Materials Science, Polymer Science or Metallurgy is required
- The job holder must be an experienced manager of resources and systems for delivery of innovation
- The job holder must be a skilled and experienced user of a variety of IT tools and techniques in order to ensure efficient design, analytical and communication processes
- Bachelor’s Degree required chemistry, physics, material science, or related fields
- Excellent interpersonal, collaborative and communications skills
- Minimum of 5 years of success in sales
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of materials science. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for materials science
- Meeting with technical staff to review progress and discuss relevant scientific and technical matters related to STREAMM applications in ongoing materials research programs
- Failure analysis and resolution through timely analyses and reports relating to failure analysis and material properties
- Materials lab professionally managed, with the future of materials testing at HYG fully and clearly articulated
- Raw and finished components qualified per HYG codes & standards for new design
- Global community kept abreast of strategic opportunities in material sourcing
- New materials qualified for HYG
- Manufacturing per HYG specifications and standards
- Participation in supplier audits as requested to ensure quality
- Emerging technologies in materials monitored and resulting opportunities championed
- HYG products approved for sale in markets where UL approval is desired
Qualifications for materials science
- At least a sophomore who is currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in a science-based discipline, such as chemistry, chemical engineering, or materials science and engineering
- Experience with managing a complex sales process including experience selling highly technical instruments through multiple channels to government, academic, industrial and research institutions involved in material science research
- Based in North America with ability to travel 50%+ of time
- Experience in the application physical sciences understanding, solid state chemistry, particle interactions or knowledge of aqueous/non-aqueous systems
- A Level Chemistry or other proof of understanding Food technology
- Well organised and precise
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Materials Science Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a materials science. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for materials science
- Multi Level Presentations are a series of powerpoints used by sales to present sector specific solutions to their customers
- Work with Sales teams globally to organise customer facing opportunities to present and validate the material
- Liaise with Sector Solution Managers for information on products / solutions within the Sector and provide guidance for them in terms of how these solution should be best presented to customers and sales
- Assist with encouraging the use of solutions based selling methods rather than technical product information using your previous experience and success to demonstrate the efficacy of this approach
- Work with the network of Materials Science sales people worldwide in order to share best practices and increase confidence in solution based selling methods
- Upload and tag Materials Science Sector material on the Global content database (currently Widen)
- Organisation of regional workshops where applicable
- Customer facing validation tours at customer sites for Level 3 (MLP) material
- Setting up and overseeing ZEISS Academy Microscopy training, working with the TDG (Training Development Group)
- Support Global sales projects by providing MLP presentation and workshop support where requested and encouraging success story sharing between the global sales teams
Qualifications for materials science
- Experience working collaboratively with others to successfully complete projects or tasks
- Creative problem solving and solution skills
- Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects
- Strong math and analytical skills to evaluate complex and sometimes ambiguous situations
- Manufacturing plant environment experience
- Familiarity with corrugated, carton, label and/or flexible/laminate materials