Senior Account Executive

Why a Great Opportunity

Position Summary :

Our client, a worldwide chemical manufacture in the plastics and resins industry is looking for a new addition to their Engineering Plastics division. Our client is positioned at the beginning of their growth phase having successfully spun off, implementing the foundations for the business success with very knowledge and technical leadership in place from day 1, and ready for rapid company growth offering a great career opportunity for great people. If you believe in driving results in a friendly environment that is open to creative ideas and diverse perspectives, then this is the place for you. They are built on a rich history of teamwork, innovation, and customer focus and that has a fun, entrepreneurial mindset.

Job Description

The Lead R&D Application Development Engineer / Scientist is a technical expert in the Engineering Plastics space. They are charged with development, implementation, and qualification of new products and product line extensions in customer’s applications. They must understand customer’s formulations and processes to help achieve customer’s critical requirements. Additional responsibilities include providing technical support and troubleshooting all customer quality and product performance issues.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Owns in-lab formulation, processing, testing, and support to the customer for new product launches, new applications of existing products, and product modifications / extensions
• Identifies, creates, and defines the application requirements for new products
• Defines application solutions appropriate to customer requirements and critical to quality measures, CTQ’s
• Works collaboratively with Technical Marketing Lead to get product qualified in customer trials
• Supports customer quality and product performance issues via in-house testing
• Keeps abreast of latest technical developments for the product and applications
• Maintains a database to benchmark competitive offerings for each application
• Designs and builds prototypes for customer evaluation
• Defines in-house capability needs; and identifies and utilizes 3rd party application labs to supplement in-house capabilities as needed
• Coordinates activities with the project team and the customers
• Conduct literature and patent reviews defining freedom to practice
• Provides strategic guidance to the business and resin development R&D group to drive new product development
• Develops functional solutions to complex processes
• Serves as a source of expertise in Nylon 6 Engineering Plastics formulation and processing technology areas
• Participates in Industry Standards committees

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