Coatings Engineer

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Position Overview:

As a Coatings Engineer at Mercury Marine, you will be responsible for providing engineering support to a Senior Coatings Engineer to maintain and improve marine paints and coatings for metallic and polymeric parts and processes for current products and new product introductions. This will require performing standard and non-standard lab-based testing and analyzing the results to inform engineering decisions. This is a laboratory position involving 75% testing set-up and execution, 25% report writing and meetings.

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Essential Functions:

• Provide materials characterization for engineering inquiries of painted and coated parts including but not limited to: coating adhesion, coating thickness, chemical resistance, UV durability, corrosion protection, water and humidity resistance, color, and gloss.· Perform production qualification work for externally sourced components.
• Through consultation with stakeholders, determine the extent of testing required, level of urgency, and the most cost and time effective manner to achieve the stated goals.
• Record results, conclusions, and recommendations in clear, concise and timely reports.
• As needed, present the results of your work to cross-functional internal stakeholders, and to representatives of the external supply chain.
• Support the adoption of new materials and processes through technical data collection and contribute to the risk/reward analysis needed to make those decisions.
• Operation, calibration and basic maintenance of relevant materials laboratory equipment.
• Provide guidance to design engineering, manufacturing, sourcing quality, and purchasing through analysis of process development samples to assess production readiness.
• Support sourcing initiatives such as qualification of new vendors, processes and materials.
• Support new product coating and processing recommendations for both metallic and polymeric substrates.
• Occasional travel to Brunswick and supplier facilities required as needed (