Research Engineer

ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel producer. We use the most innovative technologies to create the steels tomorrow’s world will be made of. Every day over 125,000 of our talented people, located in over 60 countries, push the boundaries of digitalization, and use advanced technologies to create a stronger, faster, and smarter world. To help make this possible, they know they can depend on the support and training that a company of our scope and scale can provide.

Comprising 1,650 researchers spread across 14 Research Centres around the world, our Global R&D team aims to continuously improve the quality of steel and its manufacturing processes. This involves investigating and developing disruptive technologies, reducing the carbon footprint of steel, and optimizing costs while maintaining uncompromising quality. The team's strong multicultural diversity, with over 30 nationalities, offers international experience and makes it possible to meet global needs.

R&D Maizières Process lab is dedicated to supporting ArcelorMittal’s production plants competitiveness, quality and sustainability by the development or improvement of innovative processes or processing routes (from cokemaking to metallic coating).

Your role

As Research engineer in the Steelmaking department of ArcelorMittal R&D, you will lead studies and give support to our plants worldwide in order to tackle the challenges created by the new decarbonized processes or health and safety rules evolution (metallurgy, productivity, quality,...) and propose evolution and optimization of the production practices.

You will:

• Provide a specific focus and develop experience on the evaluation of materials and alternative materials to be used in future production routes.
• Develop our portfolio on casting powders optimization and develop the knowledge to be able to support our plants in the choice of powders.
• Take the lead on continuous casting refractories activities (road map animation, technical assistance for plants, benchmarks).
• Participate in R&D projects for the development of new or optimized processes in ArcelorMittal industrial plants. This will include the evaluation of new breakthrough technologies for the steelmaking industry, the deployment of new industrial tools to ensure that steel grades produced on new routes display the same quality and properties as those produced until now. 
• Work closely with ArcelorMittal industrial plants with frequent business trips to provide expertise for technical assistance (e.g. solve quality or process issues).
• Design, organize and analyze process trials from lab to industrial scale, including 6t pilot scale in Maizières facilities.
• Interact with the whole ArcelorMittal community: Global R&D specialists and technicians, plant experts, corporate teams, etc. and develop collaborative research with external partners (academic laboratories, technical centres, suppliers).

Your profile

• You hold a Master’s degree or a PhD.
• You have a solid scientific background in material science, thermodynamic, thermochemistry, process engineering, material characterization.
• A first experience in the field of high temperature processes and evaluation/characterization of steelmaking materials, chemical engineering, sintering would be appreciated.
• You are fluent in French and in English.
• You have the ability to define and structure research problems, data analysis and experimental validation.
• You have the ability to write technical reports or research papers.
• You have good social skills to work in project teams within a multi-cultural environment and different factories.
• You are able to present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You are willing to go on-site, conduct thorough analysis, take a step back to gain perspective, and propose and implement improvement action plans.
• You are open to travel worldwide.

According to ArcelorMittal Global R&D values:

• You agree to comply with health and safety rules.
• You are respectful, transparent, honest, and empathetic in your relationships. You honor your word and your commitments to others.
• You agree to behave consistently with the highest level of integrity.
• You strive to question your practices. with high expectations of yourself and others, you strive for a high level of quality and reliability in everything you do.
• You recognize that diversity, varied skills, and fresh ideas make a group exponentially better in the pursuit of a common goal.
• You know that learning changes minds and lives, so you are committed to learning throughout your professional career and continually achieving the skills required and essential to your success.
• You are open to ideas that challenge conventions and stimulate innovation.

Join us and you will see that your work will help create renewable energy, impact major industries and boost economies. At ArcelorMittal, we'll help you create your world.

Attractive remuneration with stimulating career prospects in which eminent scientists and engineers evolve in a multicultural environment.

ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries. Our material is part of the fabric of life. What we produce makes a difference – to individuals, communities, businesses and society. At ArcelorMittal, the safety, health, and wellbeing of our employees are our top priorities. We believe that every accident is avoidable, and it is essential for every employee, from the shop floor to the management committee, to hold this belief. 
Our purpose is to produce ever smarter steels that have a positive benefit for people and planet. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.  Within this context, you will be working for Maizières Process research centre located in Maizières-lès-Metz (France) which main mission is to contribute to ArcelorMittal’s production lines competitiveness and sustainability by the development or improvement of innovative processes or processing routes (from Ironmaking to metallic coating). The objectives of the laboratory are answering the needs of our operations (mineral processing, steel upstream operations, steel downstream operations, product quality, transversal issues). We are able to offer new technologies, standard solutions, technical assistances and knowledge building.