Job Description

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 join the Process Longs department of the Maizières Longs research centre, a team of 10 researchers developing and deploying advanced process solutions for Long Carbon steel plants worldwide. The team combines process metallurgy, advanced instrumentation, data analysis, and numerical simulation, with a strong focus on continuous casting and hot forming processes.

Your role

The objective of the position is to strengthen the research centre expertise in continuous casting process instrumentation and modelling, with direct industrial impact. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to the digitalization of Long Carbon steel plants, through the development and integration of sensors and process models for continuous casting.
• Supporting the decarbonization of steelmaking routes by adapting continuous casting strategies to new metallurgical routes.
• Providing technical support to production plants to solve quality, productivity, and robustness issues, and contributing to the development of new products through process instrumentation, data analysis, and simulation.
• Developing and consolidating knowledge in continuous casting, through internal projects and external collaborations (suppliers, universities, research partners).
• Managing medium - and long - term R&D projects (>12 months) in your scope.

This position requires close collaboration with production plants and other R&D centres, a clear sense of priorities to effectively address urgent issues. You will work in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, requiring effective communication and interpersonal skills. The role also involves international travel to support Long Carbon plants worldwide.

Your profile

• You hold a Master's degree or a PhD in Materials Science.
• You have experience in temperature measurement, sensor integration, data analysis and simulation.
• Working experience in a steel plant, in particular in secondary metallurgy and/or on a continuous caster would be an asset.
• You are fluent in English.
• You are a team player with good communication skills, rigour and autonomy.
• You have the willingness to learn constantly with curiosity.

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.