Digital Printing Development Specialist

About the role

BlueScope's Product Innovation & Technology (PI&T) team is looking for a Digital Printing Development Specialist in Port Kembla. This is a hands-on technical development role focused on advancing digital printing for BlueScope's painted products, combining painted product knowledge with laboratory experimentation, technology evaluation and manufacturing trials.

Key responsibilities

• Investigate future digital printing opportunities across finishes, effects, surface textures and longer-term solid-colour printing.
• Apply painted product knowledge to understand how substrates, pretreatments, primers, basecoats, inks and clearcoats interact within a digital printing system.
• Monitor emerging digital printing equipment, printhead and ink technologies and assess their potential application and compatibility with painted product systems.
• Design and run laboratory experiments, developing hypotheses, experimental plans and test methods.
• Analyse technical results and turn findings into practical recommendations and next steps.
• Take laboratory concepts through to manufacturing line trials and give technical input when results differ from expectations.
• Work closely with painted product specialists to develop and assess digital printing concepts as complete painted product systems.

Required profile

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, chemistry, materials science, polymer science or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience in painted or coated product development, including practical understanding of coating systems and their performance.
• Knowledge of how substrates, pretreatments, primers, topcoats or basecoats and other coating layers interact and influence product performance.
• Experience in technical product, process or materials development.
• Demonstrated capability in experimental design and laboratory development work.
• Ability to analyse technical results, draw evidence-based conclusions and recommend practical next steps.
• Strong collaboration skills and willingness to build expertise in digital printing, inks and related technologies.

What we offer

• Opportunities to learn and grow with a lifelong learning culture.
• A positive, inclusive work environment with a focus on safety and wellbeing.
• Work-life flexibility through the B-flex program.

Applications close on Tuesday, 10 November.