Posting Title
Researcher – Battery R&D and Critical Minerals Research .
Location
CO - Golden .
Position Type
Limited Term (Fixed Term) .
Hours Per Week
40 .
Working at NLR
NLR is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.
Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NLR stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.
At NLR, you'll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.
Job Description
NLR's Battery Materials Group develops materials for battery applications and other critical mineral and material technologies. We are seeking a Researcher to support multiple projects focused on these topics. This Researcher should be a seasoned, experienced professional with the ability to develop advanced concepts, techniques, and standards for specialized, state-of-the-art technologies and concepts.
In this role, the successful candidate will be expected to develop skills in proposal development, leading projects, mentoring junior researchers, providing intellectual leadership, achieving external visibility, representing the laboratory to external partners and leading publications and/or other research products. The candidate will exhibit effective communication, interpersonal, project management and customer relations skills. They will be expected to develop solutions for an extensive and diverse range of complex problems that require the frequent use of creativity and where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. They will also be expected to lead technical decision-making and direction at the project level. The successful candidate will be called upon to work independently with occasional guidance from senior staff to develop technical direction to multiple teams for organizational or business unit initiatives and/or new technology product line strategies, coordinate and monitor the work of others under their direct supervision. They should have the ability to develop into a role model for effective and creative research leadership within a center or directorate.
The successful candidate will be well-versed in the following:
developing and executing experiments and experimental matrices
synthesizing, processing, recycling, and/or coating materials
performing materials characterization; fabricating electrodes from slurries
fabricating electrochemical cells
performing electrochemical testing
analyzing complex electrochemical and materials characterization data from experiments
writing programs to expedite experimental data analysis
and independently writing papers and reports.
The successful candidate should be interested in working on a wide variety of projects for a wide variety of sponsors including industrial projects and national security and defense projects, where publishing may be limited.
The initial appointment is for 1 year with extension possible, provided mutual satisfaction and availability of funds.
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Basic Qualifications
Relevant PhD . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of…