[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Steel Dynamics jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Steel Dynamics · Columbus, MS # Lab Metallurgist Columbus, MS, US Full-time Listed on Steel Dynamics’s official careers site. Posted June 1, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Steel Dynamics’s careers site →](https://careers-aluminumdynamics.icims.com/jobs/7543/lab-metallurgist/job?in_iframe=1) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Steel Dynamics](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/) / Lab Metallurgist ## Job description Subsidiary Aluminum Dynamics Overview The Lab Metallurgist is responsible for ensuring the safe, quality, and reliable operation of the metallurgical lab. The lab contains equipment to perform mechanical testing (tensile testing and hardness), along with equipment to perform metallurgical analysis (sample prep, optical microscope, and SEM). This position would oversee procedures and scheduling of equipment and testing, supervise lab technicians, and communicate with department metallurgists and process operations. ### Responsibilities - Promote and maintain safe and efficient work environment - Select the appropriate analysis technique for a given material and interpret the resulting data, coordinating with process and product metallurgists to determine next steps of investigations - Generate failure analysis reports to be shared with the production team as well as customers - Maintain calibration, verification and operation of lab equipment, including laboratory equipment in use on the production floor as well as laboratory calibration standards Metallographic sample preparation, inspection and characterization of aluminum material from casting to finished project, including material finished to a customer use product. Data collection including recording and analyzing test results, maintaining accurate records, and reporting deviations or non-conformities Support ISO/IEC 17025, as well as additional customer testing compliance requirements - Coordinate testing workflow to ensure prompt sample turnaround times while ensuring testing accuracy and standard compliance - Coordinate with department metallurgists in performing testing for trials and additional testing as required for product and process improvement or development Other duties may be assigned as needed ### Qualifications Required - 4 year degree in Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering or Materials Science. (Additional - 4 year degrees in other majors may be allowable depending on curriculum Experience with reading, understanding and conveying technical specifications Highly effective verbal and written communication as well as interpersonal skills with a history of technical report writing Organizational and time management skills – ability and desire to successfully manage multiple time dependent projects Computer literacy including Office Suite and basic database query - Ability and desire to work well in a team oriented, fast paced learning and startup environment Preferred Preference will be given to candidates who have both an applicable - 4 year degree and 3 years of hands on experience or Maters Degree. Candidates with wrought aluminum inspection and characterization experience, particularly in end use cases like can, automotive or industrial applications are preferred. Testing in more than one area of aluminum material testing as listed above in requirements. Prior startup experience Steel Dynamics, Inc., and all affiliated entities are equal opportunity employers. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Jun 1, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Jul 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 139 days - Location: Columbus, MS, US - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Steel Dynamics’s careers site →](https://careers-aluminumdynamics.icims.com/jobs/7543/lab-metallurgist/job?in_iframe=1) ## More jobs at Steel Dynamics ### [Construction Utility](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/jobs/d31fa92196e62698db28/) Columbus, MS, US ### [Dispatcher](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/jobs/21d6be59bb5b7a368981/) Columbus, MS, US ### [Melt Shop Floater- Columbus FRG](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/jobs/053522146d2463df233b/) Columbus, MS, US ### [Metallurgist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/jobs/fc92390cb0fe5a7951f9/) Columbus, MS, US ### [Metallurgy Internship](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/steel-dynamics/jobs/d3954033b8c66d151f1c/) Columbus, MS, US ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Director, Lab Operations (Lab)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/davita/jobs/87130d0695bbcc376573/) DaVita · Deland, FL ### [Lab Analyst I - PFAS Lab](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/sgs/jobs/67c22ebf040a60edb638/) SGS · South Brunswick Township, NJ, United States ### [Metallurgist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/howmet-aerospace/jobs/2d724c94c0a0b421f7b2/) Howmet Aerospace · Fontana, CA, United States ### [Metallurgist](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/howmet-aerospace/jobs/4ad6786c175132e85a17/) Howmet Aerospace · Rochester, NY, United States ### [Lab Tech](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/general-dynamics/jobs/3150dfef9c11a9ffe9b7/) General Dynamics · Bath, ME, US [Jobs in Columbus, MS](/locations/us/ms/columbus/)[Jobs in Mississippi](/locations/us-ms/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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