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Element has an opportunity for a Failure Analyst / Metallurgical Engineer who will be primarily responsible for the failure analysis inspections, operations, reporting and consultation services.
Element Detroit Wixom is a full-service metallurgical and materials testing laboratory supporting the automotive, aerospace, defense, and industrial sectors. Founded in 1987, the laboratory provides extensive expertise in mechanical testing, fatigue testing, metallurgical evaluations, chemical analysis, corrosion testing, and advanced failure analysis, helping manufacturers validate material performance and resolve complex engineering challenges.
If you are not currently authorized to work in the US without sponsorship, Element Materials Technology will not consider your job application. Any candidate must be lawfully eligible to work in the US as a US Citizen or Permanent Resident of the United States.
Responsibilities
- Supervision, conducting and reporting of failure analysis
- Operate metallurgical equipment including SEM/EDS
- Project management of client communication, quotations, follow up, reporting, and invoicing
- Presentation of technical work in different platforms, both written and oral in a confident manner
- Exhibit pragmatic and innovative with respect to both conduct of the investigation and providing solutions for the client
- Review technical documents and to construct a suitable scope of work
- Estimate the work effort required and to help in the commercial breakdown of the work
- Supervise routine metallographic examinations and review / compose standard reporting comments
- Experience and recognized qualification in Metallurgy
- Experience in conducting and reporting of root cause failure analysis
- Experience in working with SEM / EDS (Scanning Electron Microscopy / Energy Dispersive analysis)
- Experience working in an ISI 17025 laboratory environment
- Proven supervisory skills
- Strong communication / presentation skills
- The ability to assess and respond to client requirements in an appropriate manner
- Ability to operate and function within a team, drawing on other expertise where required
- Flexibility and adaptability to different workloads and roles within the company
At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.
All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.
Skills Required
- Experience and recognized qualification in metallurgy
- Experience conducting and reporting root cause failure analysis
- Experience working with SEM/EDS
- Experience working in an ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory environment
- Proven supervisory skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Ability to assess and respond appropriately to client requirements
- Ability to work effectively within a team and draw on other expertise
- Flexibility and adaptability to different workloads and roles
Element Materials Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, floating holidays, and paid volunteer time are highlighted, with flexibility to use time off in many teams. This breadth of options adds practical value beyond base pay.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Employee Assistance Program support, recognition programs, and “Smarter Working” flexibility are featured as part of the package. These offerings support day-to-day wellbeing and work–life fit.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in certain roles and markets, with location-based variation enabling stronger packages for some. This creates opportunities to land better-aligned offers when role and site match well.
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What We Do
The Element Materials Technology Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection, and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials, and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s c.9,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists, work across a global network of over 270+ locations, support customers from early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals, and into production ensuring their products are safe and sustainable, and achieve market access. In 2021, Element set out its new, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets and committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow Element’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection and certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research and data.
