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Research Scientist Job in Cleveland, Ohio US

Research Scientist

Lincoln Electric - Cleveland, OH

Posted: 11/12/2025 - Expires: 12/12/2025

Job ID: 292873919

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Job Description

Lincoln Electric is the world leader in the engineering, design, and manufacturing of advanced arc welding solutions, automated joining, assembly and cutting systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipment, and has a leading global position in brazing and soldering alloys. Lincoln is recognized as the Welding Expert™ for its leading materials science, software development, automation engineering, and application expertise, which advance customers' fabrication capabilities to help them build a better world. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is a $4.2B publicly traded company (NASDAQ:LECO) with over 12,000 employees around the world, with operations in 71 manufacturing and automation system integration locations across 21 countries and maintains a worldwide network of distributors and sales offices serving customers in over 160 countries.

Location: Euclid - 22801
Employment Status: Salary Full-Time
Function: Research & Development
Req ID: 27300

Purpose

To design, develop and evaluate welding machines and associated processes; to conduct applied research into new areas of welding machine design and/or on new welding processes.

Job Duties and Responsibilities


* Utilizes and applies experience in a broad range of fields to understand weld machine development process and interactions between machine design and weld process development/optimization; collaborates with team members and members of the department, providing the benefit of this understanding to enhance the execution of projects
* Develops new welding machines, software, welding processes and/or test methodologies in accordance with company policies/procedures and in consideration of:
* Market needs, requiring direct interface with customers, sales and marketing
* Industry codes, standards, and specifications, and
* Manufacturing process capabilities, requiring direct interface with manufacturing and methods personnel
* Establishes standards and methodologies for and conducts evaluations of product performance
* Develops/refines test methods, as applicable, to support new product development, product evaluations, and competitive benchmarking
* Facilitates development of manufacturing process capabilities to support introduction of new products
* Works with minimal direct supervision, conferring with superiors as needed; has appreciable latitude for independent action or decision
* May provide task oriented direction to Technicians, Technologists and/or Engineers Level I/II/III in the execution of development projects
* Structures projects for and provides supervision and mentoring to Engineering Interns
* Maintains records of all work in process and documents interim/final results in the applicable format; these include Project Definitions, Milestone Plans, ES Reports, Technical Reports, Project Tracking Progress Reports and presentations at meetings, seminars, and conferences

Basic Requirements


* Baccalaureate degree in Engineering (or equivalent). Degree in Welding Engineering preferred.
* Minimum 8 years engineering experience.
* Processes and applies a broad knowledge of engineering and scientific principles, practices and procedures, within the field of specialization, to the completion of difficult assignments.
* Computer literate with working knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access and MS PowerPoint, as a minimum.
* Possesses and applies both practical and fundamental understanding of various arc welding processes.
* Experience with Robotic Programming.
* Experience with numerical modeling tools including Python is a plus.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Wor

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Job Summary

Employment Type:
Full Time Employee
Job type:
Regular Employment
Skill Based Partner:
No
Education Level:
High school graduate
Work Days:
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
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Display Recommended WorkKeys®Recommended WorkKeys®:
Applied Math: 5
Graphic Literacy: 6

Workplace Documentation: 5