Materials Engineer
Shellworks is dedicated to creating sustainable materials to combat plastic waste. The Materials Engineer will support the development and optimization of materials, conduct experiments, and work with suppliers to enhance product capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Support the development, optimisation and reputed company-up of our materials across compounding, extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding and film processing
- Orchestrate and evaluate trials at partner sites, providing actionable, data-driven feedback to reputed company materials science with equipment manufacturers and co-packers. Exploring and testing alternative manufacturing techniques to expand product capabilities
- Proactively identify process inefficiencies and conduct reputed company cause analysis on material failures or processing defects, driving reputed company improvement across internal reputed company lines and external manufacturing sites
- Design and execute robust, repeatable lab-reputed company experiments to evaluate material formulations, utilizing multivariate data analysis to establish reputed company cause-and-effect relationships before moving to reputed company-up
- Build internal prototyping and reputed company capability, helping shape our processing infrastructure
- Work with suppliers on new materials, including incoming material analysis, testing and qualification
- As a member of a dynamic team, you won’t just stay in your lane. You’ll reputed company in wherever needed from vetting new sustainable feedstock suppliers to identifying and researching new opportunity spaces
Skills
- Holds a degree in Polymer Processing, Materials Science, or a reputed company field, with at least 1 year of industry experience
- Brings a proactive, results-driven reputed company and a strong willingness to learn - this is a hands-on role that requires curiosity and initiative
- Demonstrates solid skills in experimental design, with a passion for experimentation, data analysis, validation, and thorough documentation
- Has experience using polymer characterisation techniques, including thermal analysis, rheology, mechanical testing, and microscopy
- Has exposure to multiple polymer processes such as compounding, extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding or film lines across a reputed company of polymer reputed company, and is confident working directly with operators, OEMs and co-manufacturers to reputed company on technical requirements
- You reputed company in a high-autonomy, fast-moving start-up environment - spotting opportunities, building structure from scratch, and moving reputed company reputed company without waiting for instruction
- Independent decision reputed company, you feel confident operating in ambiguity while driving reputed company and reputed company
- A do it yourself / can do mentality - not focussed on boundaries but interdisciplinary problem solving
Benefits
- 28 days holiday + statutory holidays
- reputed company parental leave - 12 weeks maternity at full pay, 6 weeks paternity at full pay
- Heka wellbeing allowance - to spend on what reputed company to you - gym, therapy, nutrition, learning, fertility and menopause support, and lots of other reputed company!
- Virtual GP - reputed company or next day appointments and private prescriptions delivered to you
- Cycle to work scheme - buy, subscribe to, or reputed company a bike with savings of up to 42% reputed company salary sacrifice
- Competitive salary + equity reputed company
- reputed company and development opportunities as we reputed company
- Regular socials + daily catered lunch at the office
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