Chief Metallurgist

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Hiring Remotely in Warrenville, IL, USA
In-Office or Remote
Expert/Leader
Energy • Utilities • Renewable Energy
The Role
Leads metallurgy and materials engineering activities for pipeline and infrastructure clients. Responsibilities include failure analysis, fitness-for-service evaluations, integrity management, welding and material specifications, non-destructive inspection requirements, technical standards, project leadership, client engagement, proposals, and multidisciplinary collaboration. The role requires extensive metallurgy experience, management background, professional registration, and strong technical communication and relationship-building skills.
Summary Generated by Built In

ENTRUST Solutions Group, a Leidos company is seeking a Chief Metallurgist to join our team. In this role, you’ll serve as a trusted technical leader and subject matter expert, helping clients and project teams solve complex materials, integrity, and reliability challenges. You’ll lead and support failure analysis investigations, fitness-for-service evaluations, integrity management initiatives, and the development of welding and joining procedures, material specifications, and non-destructive inspection requirements. You’ll also play an important role in maintaining technical standards, operating and maintenance procedures, and integrity management practices that support safe, reliable operations.

This is a highly collaborative role that combines hands-on technical expertise, client partnership, and project leadership. You’ll work directly with clients to define project scope, deliverables, and schedules, while serving as a technical lead or key member of multidisciplinary project teams. You’ll help ensure projects meet quality and profitability expectations, contribute technical expertise to proposals and RFP/RFQ/RFI responses, and collaborate across business units to connect the right people and resources to each challenge. Just as importantly, you’ll build lasting client relationships and help strengthen a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.

This role is designated as remote, giving you the flexibility to primarily work from home while staying actively connected to your team and projects. We value collaboration and responsiveness, so we ask our remote team members to be available when in person presence is needed—such as for client meetings, site visits, team events, or training sessions. 

Required Qualifications:

  • Engineering or other appropriate technical degree, professional registration is required.
  • 10-15 years of material science and metallurgy experience in a natural gas or liquid pipeline operating company or engineering consulting firm. Five years of this experience must have been in a management role.
  • Collaborative approach to problem solving.
  • Exceptional communication skills especially at the technical level.
  • The ability to build relationships with staff and customers.
  • Strong industry contacts.
  • Unquestioned business and personal integrity.

What We Offer: 

  • A supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and encourages innovation. 
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development. 
  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and flexible work schedules. 
  • Benefits offered include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) plan with company match. Also offered are tuition reimbursement, voluntary life, disability, critical illness, accident and hospitalization plans. HSA or FSA medical accounts and FSA dependent care and transportation/parking accounts are also available. These benefits are subject to employee contribution amounts generally set annually. Full-time employees are eligible to earn PTO hours. May be eligible for discretionary bonus as determined by the company.

Why Join Us?

At ENTRUST Solutions Group, a Leidos company, we are driven by a commitment to innovation, technical excellence, and delivering the critical infrastructure that powers and connects communities. Together with Leidos, we are building a scaled, end-to-end energy and infrastructure organization focused on modernizing the grid, improving reliability, and helping utilities and network providers meet rising demand. 

As an ENR top ranked firm, our team of more than 5,000 professionals brings deep technical expertise and advanced technology across electric, gas, and telecommunications infrastructure. We solve complex challenges for clients across North America and expanding markets, helping them strengthen reliability, expand capacity, and adapt to evolving infrastructure needs. 

We foster a culture where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are expected, and where people are empowered to challenge convention, think boldly, and make an impact. Whether you are looking to grow your expertise, lead transformative projects, or help shape the future of infrastructure, you will find opportunities to thrive here.  

Explore More Opportunities: Not quite the right fit? Check out all our openings at ENTRUST Solutions Group Careers.  

To learn more about ENTRUST Benefits and Culture, please visit our company LinkedIn page and follow us at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/entrustsolutionsgroup 

ENTRUST Solutions Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. 

ENTRUST Solutions Group does not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with ENTRUST Solutions Group.

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Skills Required

  • Engineering or other appropriate technical degree
  • Professional registration
  • 10-15 years of materials science and metallurgy experience in a natural gas or liquid pipeline operating company or engineering consulting firm
  • At least five years of experience in a management role
  • Collaborative approach to problem solving
  • Exceptional technical communication skills
  • Ability to build relationships with staff and customers
  • Strong industry contacts
  • Unquestioned business and personal integrity

ENTRUST Solutions Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ENTRUST Solutions Group and has not been reviewed or approved by ENTRUST Solutions Group.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is described as generous with carryover, complemented by paid holidays and flexible work weeks. Role-dependent remote options and occasional shortened Fridays further expand time flexibility.
  • Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, with no‑cost preventive care and mental‑health resources highlighted. Optional protections like accident and critical‑illness coverage broaden the safety net.
  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) program with company matching is emphasized. Additional financial tools such as HSA and FSA contribute to longer‑term security.

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The Company
HQ: Warrenville, IL
2,840 Employees

What We Do

ENTRUST Solutions Group, an ENR Top 100 company, provides comprehensive and dependable engineering, consulting, and automation services to pipeline companies, gas and electric utilities, and industrial customers. With first-hand experience operating and maintaining energy infrastructure, our engineering professionals provide expertise in Pipeline Engineering, Integrity Services, Automation Integration, Electrical Design, Fiber & Broadband Communications, Industrial Solutions, and Process Safety Management. ENTRUST provides innovative engineering solutions to meet our clients’ needs, while consistently maintaining the highest level of ethics and integrity. Our success is achieved through the valued contributions of our talented and diverse employees with more than 3300 professionals across 42 offices.

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