Job Description

Skilled Materials Scientist or Engineer

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Ideal move for a Professional Materials Scientist or Engineer seeking a well paid long term contract.

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Very interesting place to work...

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Career defining move for an experienced Materials Scientist or Engineer.

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Your next employer...

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The Aerospace and Maritime Divisions, located at DSTO Melbourne (Fishermans Bend),

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The challenge...

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To provide engineering support to a program of work which will develop an integrated instrumentation system for characterisation of structural performance on a composite marine propeller.

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The results will be used to develop an embedded sensing capability in a composite marine propeller.

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The role...

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You will be responsible for:

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- Assisting in the integration of electrical and optical strain measurement instrumentation with legacy analogue load application control systems on a full-scale structural test.
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- Contributing to the development and enhancement of COTS FBG sensing instrumentation to meet requirements of the experimental test program.
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- Undertaking measurements using different instrumentation systems, collate and analyse the data and report on the findings.
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- Assisting in the design and optimisation of the FBG sensing arrays to meet the system requirements.
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- Contributing to project management documentation, technical risk assessments and FMECAs as required.
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The tasks will require expertise or abilities in the following areas:

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- Knowledge in photonics and in the electro-optic instrumentation associated with the interrogation of optical fibre sensors.
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- Experience with the preparation and handling of optical fibres including cleaving, fusion splicing and fibre termination.
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- Proven ability to collect, analyse data and comment on its significance.
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- At least 3 years demonstrated programming experience with languages including MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW, C++.
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- Familiarity with COMSOL and Solidworks desirable.
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- Experience with developing methods to synchronise multiple data acquisition systems.
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- Proven ability to work within a broad multidisciplinary team.
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- Preparedness to present orally on the progress of work program and to contribute to discussion on program directions.
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- Appreciation of WHS issues.
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Job Reference: 170866

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📌 Professional Materials Scientist or Engineer (Victoria)
🏢 MACRO Recruitment
📍 Victoria