Job Overview
- Cooperation with central departments and external partners for implementation of new raw materials and production technologies;
- Support PUR and SCM on technical discussions regarding alternate raw materials;
- Foster material savings, phase-out of harzardous materials, cost improvement projects and activities according to product requirements and customer focus;
- Support the effective product and know how transfers, technology for manufacturing processes and troubleshooting between facilities;
- Develop competent technical resources to meet the goals of the business;
- Keep contact with central departments on research topics;
- Cooperation with external partners (suppliers, universities, institutes);
- Compound development for external customers
- Evolutionary compound development and improvement of existing compounds to extend portfolio for new customer requirements or new markets using known validated technologies or processes
- Test of new raw materials in case of shortages, stop of production, price issues, strategy (with technology), ESH, etc.
- Issue testing plans and technical datasheets for external customers
- Contact and collaborate with supplier (fabric, cord, polymers, rubber chemicals, etc.) to support product localization, quality, material property deviation and sampling processes;
- Cooperate with PUR and SCM on checking availability and capability of raw material sources;
- Implement new alternative material supplier and support supplier audit;
- Organize laboratory testing on alternative materials;
- Evaluate and interpret results;
- Support to protect and create intellectual property for the group;
- Evaluation and approval of product and material properties during industrialization in accordance with product requirements;
- Foster material introduction at the facilities according to regional strategy;
- Support competitor samples and situation analysis;
- Ensure environmentally friendly handling of materials, avoid the use and introduction of hazardous materials;
- Fulfill legal and customer requirements in collaboration with Corporate Health and Safety;▪ Support on project/product complaints and investigations;
- Supplier Audits, Supplier Approval;
- Support compound release
- Support industrialization of compounds to serial status
- Ensure handover of all requirements to OPS (incl. Testing plans and recipes) for external compounding
- Ensure quality of customer compounds
- Cooperate with customer regarding compound and raw material changes
- Direct interface to external customers for the development and validation of new products for known current market.
- Evaluate customer RfQ and propose compounds
- Realization of external customer recipes
- External customer visits
- Benchmarking
- Trouble shooting for processing problems at the external customer
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