Corrosion Engineer, Intermediate

About the role

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)’s Materials Science and Disposition group is seeking a qualified Corrosion Scientist/Engineer to grow the laboratory’s portfolio in the areas of materials sciences, materials corrosion, and materials performance evaluation in nuclear waste environments.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the performance of materials via mechanical testing, fracture toughness testing, corrosion testing, or other performance-based testing as needed using national standards.
• Present results of research to appropriate scientific and business audiences and may participate in commercialization of results.
• Characterize parts and materials from existing facilities and metal additive manufacturing processes using optical microscopy/metallographic techniques, SEM, EDS, EBSD, TEM, or other relevant methods.
• Create groups outside the immediate team to tackle scientific problems.
• Ability to work with multi-discipline teams to solve these problems will be crucial to the candidate and SRNL’s success.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: BS with +6+ yrs experience; MS 5+yrs experience; PhD + 2+ yrs experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain appropriate level government security clearance which requires a US citizenship status.
• Preferred Qualifications: MS + 5-10 yrs; PhD + 3-5 yrs.
• Should demonstrate extensive understanding and expertise for various materials in variety of systems.
• Candidates with well established publications in refereed journal and conference proceedings will be given preference.