Research Engineer in Ironmaking Digitalization

ArcelorMittal is the world's largest steel producer. We use the most innovative technologies to create the steels tomorrow's world will be made of. Every day over 125,000 of our talented people, located in over 60 countries, push the boundaries of digitalization, and use advanced technologies to create a stronger, faster, and smarter world. To help make this possible, they know they can depend on the support and training that a company of our scope and scale can provide.

Comprising 1,650 researchers spread across 14 Research Centres around the world, our Global R&D team aims to continuously improve the quality of steel and its manufacturing processes. This involves investigating and developing disruptive technologies, reducing the carbon footprint of steel, and optimizing costs while maintaining uncompromising quality. The team's strong multicultural diversity, with over 30 nationalities, offers international experience and makes it possible to meet global needs.

Within this context, you will be working for Maizières Process research centre located in Maizières-lès-Metz (France) which main mission is to contribute to ArcelorMittal's production lines competitiveness and sustainability by the development or improvement of innovative processes or processing routes (from Ironmaking to metallic coating). The objectives of the laboratory are answering the needs of our operations (mineral processing, steel upstream operations, steel downstream operations, product quality, transversal issues). We are able to offer new technologies, standard solutions, technical assistances and knowledge building.

As the world's leading steel producer, ArcelorMittal has a responsibility to be at the forefront of a transition in steel that achieves the goals of the Paris Agreement. Steel industry accounts for some 7-9% of global carbon emissions today. Iron ore reduction is where the vast majority of carbon emissions come from in the steel industry. The carbon challenge in the coming decades is therefore in the transformation of the way in which we turn iron ore into steel. ArcelorMittal has a strategy to reduce its carbon footprint based on the decarbonisation of the existing blast furnaces and by the erection of new direct reduction plants.

Your role
As a Research Engineer in the Primary department of the ArcelorMittal Maizières Process Lab, you will lead R&D projects focused on ironmaking process optimization and decarbonization.

Leveraging your expertise in ironmaking processes and strong scientific background in physical & statistical modeling, your key responsibilities will include:

Main Objectives

•    Develop and propose new models aligned with plant needs (e.g., CFD, DEM, Machine Learning).

•    Adapt and improve existing models, and train end-users to maximize operational efficiency, extend campaign life, and reduce CO₂ emissions.

•    Define and manage R&D projects supporting ArcelorMittal's industrial facilities in achieving technical, economic, and decarbonization goals.

•    Suggest innovative operating conditions for Blast Furnace and DRI processes to reduce carbon footprint (Electrification, H2, Biomass, CCSU…)

Your Activities

•    Lead and contribute to R&D initiatives.

•    Provide ironmaking and modeling expertise to internal stakeholders.

•    Conduct trials at ArcelorMittal plants.

•    Develop both first-principles and data-driven models.

•    Communicate and disseminate results to internal and external audiences.

•    Design new industrial test protocols.

•    Build laboratory test rigs to physically model ironmaking phenomena

Your profile

• You hold a Master's degree or a PHD in relevant disciplines: Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering,  Mechanical Engineering.
• You have experience in numerical modeling (CFD, DEM), machine learning, data science, and programming (Python, C++, etc.).
• You have a solid knowledge of heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
• Familiarity with primary steelmaking processes is a strong asset.
• You are fluent in English.
• You have project management skills.
• You have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Adaptability, cross-cultural competence and teamwork are required.
• You are able to travel worldwide.

According to ArcelorMittal Global R&D values:

• You agree to comply with health and safety rules.
• You are respectful, transparent, honest, and empathetic in your relationships. You honor your word and your commitments to others.
• You agree to behave consistently with the highest level of integrity.
• You strive to question your practices. with high expectations of yourself and others, you strive for a high level of quality and reliability in everything you do.
• You recognize that diversity, varied skills, and fresh ideas make a group exponentially better in the pursuit of a common goal.
• You know that learning changes minds and lives, so you are committed to learning throughout your professional career and continually achieving the skills required and essential to your success.
• You are open to ideas that challenge conventions and stimulate innovation.

Join us and you will see that your work will help create renewable energy, impact major industries and boost economies. At ArcelorMittal, we'll help you create your world.

Attractive remuneration with stimulating career prospects in which eminent scientists and engineers evolve in a multicultural environment.