Materials Science Jobs

Hexcel · Cambridge

Responsible for supporting maintenance across a composites manufacturing site, including fault finding, repairs, root cause corrective actions and planned preventative maintenance schedules. Responds to mechanical and electrical breakdowns, troubleshoots PLC and drive issues, and liaises with suppliers and contractors. Also trains production staff in basic maintenance and machine set-up.

Hexcel · Leicester

Owns the planned preventative maintenance programme for a pilot plant producing advanced composite materials, developing schedules and strategies to maximise equipment reliability. Provides hands-on fault diagnosis and repair support, leads root cause investigations, manages contractors and spare parts inventory, and champions site safety compliance. Works closely with R&D specialists in a research-driven manufacturing environment.

Orbital Materials, Inc. · London

Designs, builds and operates the core backend systems powering CurieOS, an AI operating system for materials science and hardware engineering. Work spans APIs, data pipelines, graph databases, event-driven architectures and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, observability and clean abstractions. Collaborates closely with ML researchers and domain scientists, and helps shape platform architecture as the team grows.

PhysicsX · Singapore

Lead the deployment of ML models and engineering surrogates—deep learning on CAE/CFD/FEA data, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and optimization—into customer production environments. Own scoping, architecture, and success metrics for data/ML systems built with Python, PyTorch, Pandas, fastAPI, Scipy, and Kubeflow across cloud and on-prem. Mentor engineers and data scientists while travelling 3-4 weeks per quarter to customer sites worldwide.

ITM Power · Sheffield

Working within the stack design and verification team, you will develop and execute verification and validation plans for full-scale PEM electrolyser stacks and clamping skid frame systems. The role covers mechanical, hydraulic and thermal test programmes, prototype assembly and commissioning, plus data analysis using MATLAB or Python and reporting to internal engineering teams.

ITM Power · Sheffield

Leads the Product Conformity team managing stack and product certifications, technical construction files and regulatory documentation for global markets. Coordinates internal and external testing, hosts certification bodies, and performs final inspection of electrolyser products before dispatch as the voice of the customer. Works cross-functionally with engineering, quality, procurement, HSE and manufacturing to embed compliance across the product lifecycle.

Sourced Recruitment Limited · Cheltenham · £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Lead research and development projects for a specialist manufacturer of advanced refractory products used in investment casting, precious metals and powder metallurgy. The role blends technical leadership, product development and project management, involving laboratory data analysis, materials characterisation and presenting findings to customers and industry audiences.

PhysicsX · New York, United States · US$150,000 – US$250,000 pa

Builds and deploys customer-facing applications that put physics AI models into production, working directly with customers, data scientists and ML engineers. Involves rapid prototyping, backend development of FastAPI microservices in Python, and cloud deployment with Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS/Azure. Requires travel to customer sites for 3-4 weeks per quarter.

Johnson Matthey · Royston

Drive operational excellence across multiple UK manufacturing sites, partnering with regional operations leaders to build and deliver an improvement roadmap. Lead Lean Six Sigma programmes targeting safety, quality, productivity and cost, and manage a team of Operational Excellence specialists. Site-based with up to 50% regional travel.

Johnson Matthey · Enfield

Supports safe, reliable smelting operations through process engineering, leading improvement initiatives in process safety, automation and throughput. Develops process models, runs lab, pilot and plant-scale trials, and uses plant data and statistical analysis to reduce variability and resolve constraints. Collaborates with Operations, Engineering, EHS, Supply Chain and R&D teams.

Huntsman Corporation · Cambridge

Delivers CAPEX and site improvement projects from planning through implementation at a chemical manufacturing facility, ensuring work meets EHS, process safety and regulatory standards. Supports preventive maintenance, reliability and continuous improvement using LEAN tools such as VSM, SMED and Kaizen, while maintaining site drawings and technical documentation. Works closely with the Process Safety & Engineering Manager and wider engineering, maintenance and project teams.

Airbus · Bristol

A four-year apprenticeship in the Structures Test Team at Airbus's AIRTeC facility, supporting test campaigns on aircraft structures. Apprentices rotate through mechanical, electrical and instrumentation work — machining, assembly, sensor installation, metrology and data acquisition — with an option to specialise in calibration and metrology. Year one combines study at Weston College with two days a week on site.

Theo James Recruitment · Shildon · £47,000 – £59,000 pa

Hands-on formulation role developing, testing and optimising chemical formulations for advanced materials and surface technologies, then scaling them from lab batches through pilot trials to full production. Involves lab experimentation, physical and performance testing, root cause analysis and close work with production and engineering teams on scale-up, raw material selection and new product introduction.

Safran · Staverton Bridge

Ensures supplier capability, compliance and performance across a global aerospace supply chain, conducting product, process and system audits and supporting NPI and part transfers. Drives improvement using APQP, PFMEA, PPAP and Lean, working with raw material suppliers of titanium, high-strength steels and aerospace aluminium. Regular UK and international travel is required.

Ceres Power · Redhill

Lead the company-wide Quality Management System across R&D, laboratories, pilot and volume manufacturing, supply chain and commercial partner activities. Focus on chemical and advanced materials processing, supplier quality, process capability and product release, supporting NPI, technology transfer and manufacturing scale-up while building a multi-disciplinary quality team.