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Job Summary

This role is a 6 month contract assignment (with potential extension) working with plastics, resins and adhesives.

An excellent opportunity to work within a product development setting while gaining unique experience to help further your career. While leveraging your knowledge in the field of polymers, you will work within a team environment and contribute directly to product engineering while working closely with a senior engineer. Specific and in-depth knowledge in Polypropylene and PP compounds is required.

Main Objectives & Deliverables:

• Define the optimal raw materials for the projects (OEMs), define the recommendations & risk assessment.
• Ensure success of new materials & glues implementation in the plants, anticipation of the validation plan (plates, parts) according customer requirements
• Solves material & adhesive problems during the project and mass production
• Capitalization through Lesson Learnt and Best Practices
• Solve Deep Red Points on materials & adhesives issues
• Raw material specification sheet and material validation plan
• Material network (North America, Europe ….)

Activities will include:

• Analyze the OEM Material specifications for our products
• Define the technical criteria to choose the raw material & adhesives, based on:

1. customer requirements

2. typology of parts to reach the functional performances required

3. purchasing strategy

4. plant constraints and technical feedback

• Propose a risk assessment and validation plan to the project, define the tests to perform by our laboratory or our chemists
• Define material recommendation sheet and disclaimers to the customers
• Keep regular contacts with customers and suppliers (chemists, compounders) to understand and orient the qualification of the raw materials
• Propose alternative raw material solutions to reduce costs and / or improved quality of the products
• Assist production plants in the event of problems linked to raw materials (or adhesives) during serial life
• Ensure that materials & adhesives are compliant to regulation (Reach) and company policies
• Ensure that material proposed are compliant to the company's sustainability strategy

Education: Master degree in Materials Science or BS Engineering degree in Chemistry

Experience: 2 - 4 years of professional experience in the field of polymers. Significant knowledge on Polypropylene and PP compounds is a must.

Knowledge of: polymers & adhesives, formulation, laboratory tests, transformation processes (injection) & bonding

EEO-Statement:

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