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Research Engineer in Mechanical engineering for Electrical steel Processes

ArcelorMittal
Francefull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Apr 2025

About the role

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.

You will be based at the Maizières Process research center, in a multicultural cluster of 35 researchers organized into three teams, working on the development and deployment of process solutions for ArcelorMittal.

You will join the Electrical & Packaging Lines Processes team, which works on innovative solutions to improve the quality of hot and cold-rolled products before delivery to the customer, and to support the development of new steel grades for different applications. Business trips are part of the R&D team's mission to visit different partners or ArcelorMittal facilities around the world and experience different working cultures.

Your role

You will be responsible for developing knowledge of the mechanical and electrical processes involved in the manufacture of electrical steel (including the cold rolling process), making extensive use of the R&D laboratory's pilots and models. Indeed, you will contribute to the improvement of R&D tools for a better representation of real industrial processes, ultimately to adapt and transfer the solutions developed to all ArcelorMittal electrical steel plants. You will be actively involved in ArcelorMittal's digital transformation, which strongly contributes to a better sustainability and reliability of ArcelorMittal's production lines.

Immediately, you will be involved in the following activities:

  • Lead industrialization of new process technologies for electrical steelmaking
  • Lead laboratory trials and contribute to R&D models development to optimize ArcelorMittal's process for improved electrical steel processes
  • Lead technical assistance to improve process conditions in existing ArcelorMittal lines (capacity, reliability, durability) based on laboratory and industrial tests, the use of R&D models and process analyses for different ArcelorMittal sites, in a global scope
  • Support new product developments

Your profile

  • You hold a Masters' degree in Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering. A PhD would be considered as an advantage.
  • Experience in Mecanical and electrical engineering would be a plus.
  • You demonstrate knowledge in Solid Mechanics and Electrical engineering.
  • Basics on process engineering.
  • You have good programming skills (Python, C++, Fortran …).
  • You have experience in metallurgy or forming processes.
  • You are advanced level in English and French
  • Advanced communication and excellent social skills when working on a project with a multi-cultural environment are mandatory.
  • You are willing to travel worldwide.
  • You are curious, results oriented and innovative.

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.

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