Factory R&D Silicone elastomers and outdoor electrical insulation

Job description

The opportunity With continuous and sustainable growth of our business we take the opportunity to strengthen our expertise and capacity with a new position with focus on High Consistency silicone Rubber and outdoor electrical insulation. The scope includes deep insight into formulation of silicone elastomers for high voltage applications, rheology and processing properties as well as performance and durability subject to electrical and environmental stresses. Considering the importance of this material in our production and for the safe long-term function of the high volt-age apparatuses our insulators constitute a key part of you will rapidly become a key resource both internally to support R&D, procurement and production, and in external interactions with OEM customers and global transmis-sion system operators. You will be part of Hitachi Energys competence center for fiber-reinforced polymer composites and silicone elas-tomers in Piteå. We are a team with world-class expertise and experience in realization, verification, and produc-tion of polymer composite products. The main products are structural and electrically insulating components used in high voltage transformers and swi...