materials engineer are you a materials engineer looking to join a rapidly expanding hitech organisation in southampton in this key role you will be the main point of reference for materials issues within engineering and manufacturing other responsibilities will include working on the improvement of polymeric materials used in the production of a range of different optical products definition of test methods and validation criteria for the characterisation of materials maintaining and organising material information and relative compatibilities development and documentation of improved processes and methods improvement of manufacturing yield product capability and reduction in cost liaising with external organisations to provide a full spectrum of analytical methods to support material development and validation for this role you will need to have practical experience of polymer applications 5 years ideally with uv cure and thermoset resins experience of working on optical fibres or semiconductor packaging would be beneficial knowledge of polymer test methods ideally experience of life testing including temperature humidity and material compatibility salary for the role is dependent on experience and will range kk with some excellent benefits this job was originally posted as wwwtotaljobscomjobseekingmaterialsengineerjob