Senior Metallurgical & Materials Specialist at Caterpillar in Peterborough

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Career Area: Engineering Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it. Job Title: Senior Metallurgical & Materials Specialist Salary: £66,000 + (depending on experience) Location: Peterborough, UK Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank holidays Up to 18% Bonus Monthly Car Cash Allowance - £600 Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution Up to 10% Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution. Optional flexible benefits including access to family health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase. Employee Referral Scheme About IPSD/AMT IPSD is a global division with engines and gensets that are sustainably manufactured, marketed, sold, and supported under multiple brands. Manufacturing facilities span the globe including Brazil, China, India, UK, and the US. We provide a broad range of products and services to dealers, distributors, and end customers in over 100 countries. AMT is a global division within Integrated Drivetrain and Electrical Solutions supporting many of the Caterpillar business units across multiple brands. Present in 5 continents aligning with Caterpillars manufacturing footprint providing a broad range of metallurgical support and services to internal and external customers. The Opportunity Full-time opportunity for a skilled Metallurgical/Materials Engineer to join our team in Peterborough. In this role, you will provide materials engineering support to all of Caterpillar’s UK/Europe facilities, which drives involvement in investigating a wide range of differing materials within multiple applications Whilst this is a technical role, you will also be required to build collaborative partnerships across the Caterpillar UK facilities to provide feedback and insights to both internal and external audiences. What you will do: As a Metallurgical / Materials Engineer within Caterpillar you will: Partner with and provide technical guidance to other teams. Integrate components and materials, aligning with compliance and specification requirements. Gather relevant information, compare, and contrast data; identify relationships to support and assist in prediction and identification of failures. Provide results and assessment back into the business; potentially being an impactful output that may affect the work group or project team, suppliers, multiple units, and both internal and external customers. This insight will have significant impact on warranty, total cost of non-quality, customer perception, costs, sales, and the leveraging of technology. What You Have Candidates will have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles: Materials Science/Metallurgy degree and/or substantive practical working experience within a materials laboratory environment Metallurgical / materials evaluation of new products, processes, or systems Engaging communicator; able to convey technical assessments and results to both technical and non-technical colleagues Providing technical guidance on product and process maintenance Ability to identify metallurgical / materials manufacturing defects and make process improvement recommendations Candidates may have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles: Experience of working in an ISO17025 Accredited Laboratory Significant experience of cast foundry processes Experience of steel making processes Product Testing: Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execut