Chemelex is a global leader in electric thermal and sensing solutions, protecting the world’s critical processes, places and people. With over 50 years of innovation and a commitment to excellence, we develop solutions that ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in diverse environments – from industrial plants and data centers to people’s homes. We deliver future-ready technologies, advanced engineering capabilities and local expertise backed by global standards. Our offering includes a leading portfolio from our trusted brands: Raychem, Tracer, Nuheat and Pyrotenax.

The Product Engineering group seeks a Senior Materials Engineer (Metals) to drive operational excellence and reliable performance for Chemelex’s mineral insulated (MI) and self-regulating cables and related product lines, including metallic sheathing, conductors, and braid wire systems.

This is an operations-based role focused on product performance, manufacturing optimization, and continuous improvement of metal-based components. The role emphasizes applied metallurgical engineering at scale ensuring that materials and processes consistently deliver high-quality, reliable products for demanding operating environments.

Key Responsibilities

Material and Product Engineering

• Select and qualify metals and alloys for use in self-regulating and MI cable products, considering thermal conductivity, corrosion resistance, mechanical strength, and compatibility with assemblies and applications.
• Define and maintain material specifications and processing parameters for sheathing, conductors, braid wire, and other metallic components.
• Evaluate how manufacturing processes influence microstructure and long-term performance under thermal cycling and harsh service conditions.

Manufacturing and Process Ownership

• Own and optimize metallurgical processes used in the production of MI cable, including metal tube forming, conductor processing, and cable assembly operations.
• Support manufacturing of metallic sheathing (e.g., copper, stainless steel, nickel alloys), ensuring process consistency, dimensional control, and material integrity.
• Specify, implement, and qualify advanced forming, drawing, annealing, and joining processes.
• Act as technical authority in metallurgical engineering decisions for cables and components.
• Support supplier qualification and material changes for metallic components and wire products.

Process Improvement and Scale

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance yield, throughput, and cost efficiency in metal processing operations.
• Apply Lean principles, DOE, and SPC to reduce process variability in tube reduction, wire drawing, and braiding operations.
• Support scale-up and industrialization of new products, ensuring robust transition from NPI to full production.

You have:
Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field with focus on metallic components and alloys
• 8+ years of experience in development and manufacturing environments, ideally involving wire, cable, tubing, or metal forming processes

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in metal processing techniques, including: tube forming and reduction; wire drawing and other forming processes; heat treatment and annealing; welding, brazing, and other joining solutions
• Deep understanding of structure–property–process relationships in metals used for electrical and thermal applications
• Experience with failure mechanisms, including: thermal fatigue and cycling, corrosion (including high-temperature and environmental exposure), mechanical damage during processing
• Proficiency in root cause analysis, DOE, and statistical process control (SPC)
• Familiarity with electrical heating systems, MI cable construction, or similar products is desirable

At Chemelex:
We protect places of progress through electric excellence.

Pioneering plants, sprawling data centers, busy transport hubs, and your own home. These are the places that bring progress to the world, and the places that we protect with time-tested technologies, advanced engineering, and a suite of services. Because here, excellence is everything.

Our Dimensions of Excellence reflect the core values of Chemelex. Together, they inspire our decisions and guide our actions – defining excellence in our work for colleagues, customers and communities.

• Experts with empathy
• Explorer mindset
• Example for others
• Exceptional impact

​We are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.