Title:  Propellant Chemistry Scientist

Job Title: Scientist, Materials Process Engineering

Job ID: 24983

Job Location: Orange, VA 22960

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Propellant Chemistry Scientist, performs assignments requiring an application of advanced principles, theories and concepts in the propulsion field with a working knowledge of other related disciplines (thermal, structural, ballistics). This individual is responsible for leading (technical), organizing (cost and schedule), and implementing tasks independently and providing chemical guidance as well as specifying chemical testing, evaluation of data, and preparing and presenting reports of results are typical of the job function.

Essential Functions:

30% - Evaluate and implement tractable solutions to technical problems in production or during development involving the utilization of chemistry and chemical analysis techniques.

30% - Technically responsible for planning (technical), organizing (cost and schedule), and conducting technical projects covering a broad range of technical topics under the guidance of a Technical Manager.

20% - Develop, plan, and promote projects independently for the implementation of novel technical approaches and cutting edge technologies as derived from customer desires to advance solid propulsion capability. This includes attendance of technical conferences and symposiums where the successful candidate will represent Aerojet Rocketdyne on a technical excellence level.

10% - Consolidate results, prepare findings for reports and present results.

10% - Mentor early and mid-career engineers in propellant chemistry principles and processes

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant Propellant Chemistry and Materials Process Engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Mastery level knowledge of chemical principles, thermodynamics, polymer chemistry, structure/property relationships, kinetics, and data analysis.
• Experience with energetic materials, statistical analysis, programming and experimental set-up and data acquisition is a plus.