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Element has an opportunity for a Metallurgist whose primary responsibility is to support the Metallurgy Lab Manager in running day to day laboratory affairs along with site and field testing.
Element Cambridge is a full-service materials testing laboratory offering advanced capabilities in corrosion testing, chemical analysis, mechanical testing, stress rupture, metallurgical analysis, and failure investigation. Through extensive laboratory expertise and hands-on industry experience, the Cambridge team helps manufacturers meet stringent regulatory, quality, and product performance requirements across diverse end markets.
If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, Element Materials Technology will not consider your job application. Any candidate must be lawfully eligible to work in Canada as a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada.
Salary: $55,000 to $65,000 CAD
Responsibilities
- Ensure work compliance to ISO 17025 requirements
- Perform metallurgical failure analysis on failed metallic (ferrous and non-ferrous) components, generating failure investigation reports with technical findings
- Carry out the mechanical tests for material properties evaluation and weld procedure specification qualification as per various international standards (ASME, API, AWS and BS)
The tests include
- tensile test
- Impact test
- Nick-Break test
- Bend Test
- Macro examination
- CTOD and others
- Carry out the corrosion tests as per NACE standards and other project specification to determine the susceptibility of material to corrosion in various service conditions
- Perform metallographic examinations on various materials to be determine grain size, cleanliness, volume percentage of phases and general microstructure evaluation
- Coordinate with the clients & third party witness as to the testing details
- Manage technicians to carry out work as per the planning schedule
- Be willing to assist in other activities from time to time that may be requested by the department manager to assist in the execution Element Technology annual targets and budget
- Bachelor degree in Metallurgy or related discipline
- Minumum 7 years experience working in a laboratory in the field of metallurgy testing
- Minimum 5 years experience required in mechanical tests and failure analysis
- Excellent technical report writing skills
- Good maths skills
- Knowledge and experience of safe operation of metallurgical testing equipment and operating in lab and / or industrial environment
- Excellent organisational and team leading skills
- Exceptional communication skills
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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
- Bachelor's degree in Metallurgy or a related discipline
- Minimum 7 years of experience working in a metallurgy testing laboratory
- Minimum 5 years of experience performing mechanical tests and failure analysis
- Excellent technical report writing skills
- Good mathematics skills
- Knowledge and experience operating metallurgical testing equipment safely in laboratory or industrial environments
- Excellent organizational and team leadership skills
- Exceptional communication skills
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.
