Now Hiring - R&D Metals Applications Engineer in Tonawanda, NY

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2022 sales of ~$33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet. The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. For more information about the company, please visit our website at [please apply online]

• Evaluate ideas on technical and commercial merit and in the context of the industrial gas business and propose new technologies and solutions that lead to new development programs.
• Inform decisions and strategies for existing development programs and for enhancing the technical strength of the department.
• Work within and across organizational and company boundaries to plan, lead and coordinate R&D project development activities from program inception to completion and acceptance.
• Design and conduct testing and/or demonstration of new technologies in Praxair combustion lab and at customer industrial facilities. Evaluate experimental data and develop scientific and engineering understanding.
• Will be recognized internally as a key technical contributor to one or more fields of expertise.
• Research and understand the intellectual property landscape and identify opportunities around key areas of expertise, new technologies and processes. Prepare invention disclosures and supporting research for intellectual property protection.
• Work under minimal supervision with guidance only in the most complex situations.
• Write reports and making recommendations to management as to future directions of development programs. Present results to customers and at internal/external technical meetings.
• Support field demonstrations and commercialization of metals and combustion technologies worldwide

• Master’s Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial or Metallurgical Engineering (or other similar discipline) with more than 5 years of relevant industrial experience working in pyro-metallurgical and/or primary metal-making industries OR a PhD Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial or Metallurgical Engineering (or other similar discipline) with more than 3 years of relevant industrial experience working in pyro-metallurgical and/or primary metal-making industries
• Experience focused on blast furnace/direct reduced iron ironmaking processes
• Proven record of successfully developing and commercially deploying novel technologies.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of process design, unit operations, mass & energy balances, heat transfer, combustion and reaction engineering is essential. Working experience with METSIM/UNISIM process simulation software an asset.
• Creativity with excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
• An independent and results oriented disposition with the demonstrated ability to successfully execute R&D projects in an industrial environment.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (domestic and international)

• Ph.D. Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience working in the Industrial Gases and in primary metal-making industries.
• Industrial experience in Steel or Iron-making research and development.

Primary Location New York-Tonawanda

Schedule Full-time

Job R&D

Unposting Date Ongoing