Team Leader of Blast Furnace & DRI

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 at the Maizières Process Research Centre, located in Maizières-lès-Metz, France. Our mission is to enhance the competitiveness of ArcelorMittal’s production lines through the development and continuous improvement of innovative processes and processing routes.

As part of the Primary Department, our objective is to address the needs of our operations, including mineral processing, upstream and downstream steelmaking activities, product quality, and transversal support entities. We achieve this by delivering value-added solutions through the development of new technologies, the implementation of standard solutions, support by technical assistance, while strengthening our technical knowledge and expertise.

Your role

As Team Leader of the Blast Furnace & DRI Section within the Primary Department, you will lead a team of 14 researchers and engineers dedicated to supporting the evolution of ironmaking technologies and the transition toward low-carbon steelmaking. 

You will ensure the application of the highest standards of safety in our laboratory and plant activities. Research excellence, innovation and project management are key components of the mission as well as ensuring alignment with business and decarbonization objectives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Promote exemplarity and ensure the highest standards of safety.
• Ensure Team’s full compliance with the requirements of the Quality Management System.
• Lead and manage the section with an entrepreneurial mindset and aligning activities with the guidelines defined by the Head of the Primary Department.
• Define short- and medium-term resource needs, including personnel, competencies, and infrastructure, to support the section's ambitions and project portfolio.
• Develop the team's capabilities by promoting both technical expertise and leadership skills, while creating an engaging environment that encourages learning, collaboration, and innovation.
• Contribute actively to the company's decarbonization strategy, supporting the development and implementation of new technological solutions.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external networks with industrial sites, research partners, universities, and technology providers to enhance innovation and knowledge sharing.

Your profile

• You hold a Master's degree related to the field of Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Chemistry and/or Metallurgy.
• You have skills in blast furnace/metallurgy.
• You have significant industrial experience and team management experience. Experience in R&D applied to industrial context is a plus.
• You have simulation skills (DEM and/or CFD).
• You are fluent in French and in English.
• You have the capability to work in a multicultural environment.
• You are a team player, with ability for networking and interaction with R&D and plants people.
• You are able to propose new solutions, innovative and results oriented.

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.

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.