Senior Materials Scientist

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

The Technical Ceramics business of Morgan Advanced Materials engineers high performance functional and structural ceramic materials, components and sub-assemblies to address customer-specific technical challenges.

Key Figures:Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), 8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange;
Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Morgan Advanced Materials is a world leader in advanced materials development and production. We produce a wide range of specialist, high specification materials that have extraordinary attributes and properties. Despite the complexity of our technologies, our focus is simple - we supply innovative, differentiated products made from advanced materials which enable our customers' products to perform more efficiently, more reliably and for longer.

Material science is pivotal to our Company's success as it is a key constituent to developing our distinctive competencies that differentiate our business from the competition.

The Structural Ceramics Global Centre of Excellenceservesour global customers by developing new, differentiated materials technologies for structural ceramics applications. The Centre of Excellenceleadsin innovating new formulations and processes, servesas a hub for academic collaboration on structural ceramics with keyuniversity faculties worldwideand actsas a focal point for R&D with raw material suppliers. It allows

Morgan to focus on both idea generation and execution in one integrated facility, with the ultimate aimof maximising the performance of our customers' applications and processes.

This Senior Materials Scientist role extends that of the Materials Scientist in taking individual lead on strategic projects for the business, providing a source of technologyexpertisewithin theCoEand across the widerbusinessand in leading,guiding and mentoring Materials Scientists within the group.

The individual will have demonstrable technical skill and an ability to applytheircore skills across a wide range of technical challenges, being able to swiftly learn new technical areas and working beyond pastdiscreteexperiences.

Principal Objectives

• Lead strategic development programmes to enhance material,processor product performance

• Lead the definition,planning and executionofthetechnology development programmes to achieve success.

• Act as a source of Materials Science and technologyexpertiseacross theCoEand the wider Morgan Global Business Units

• Represent theCoEat a GBU level in technology relevant activities and on a wider basis represent Morgan in external interactions

• Supervise, guide and mentor Materials Scientists

• To design, organise and carry out materialanalysis,development,production and processing trials at laboratory,pilotand production scales.

• Interaction with global raw materialsorequipment suppliers and research facilities to coordinate support for theR&D program, and to organise external testing programs to benchmark and developcapabilities.

• Define, plan, direct and supervise theday to day activities of technicians supporting projects

• Toassess, analyse and interpret development results, adapting and iterating project activities to achieve the desired outcomes within an optimised timescale.

• Ensure high standards of operational management including measurement control and data recording.
  
  Where necessary to develop new or improveddevelopment ortesting methods.

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