The posting
Job Description
Responsible for designing and conducting experiments toward the development or improvement of custom polymer compounds. Responsible for developing a testing plan, and procedure, data analysis, and communication of results. Three plus years direct, relevant experience with the ability to operate with little to no direction.
Responsibilities
Product Development and Customer/Project engagement
- Innovate, develop, or improve additive products both of solid/ liquid form to meet customer requirement.
- Establish requirements including processing, testing, and product specifications that meet the buying customer’s needs and can be manufactured profitably.
- Customer engagement includes customer visit, training, meetings for new projects/ opportunities with sales/ ADTD to ensure we get the right information for further development and be able to enhance the business opportunities to the company.
- Collaborate with PM Additive for new product development (NPD) in technical aspects e.g., formulate, testing, trial, technical information to ensure NPD launch in time.
- Provide "Technical product information (TPI) " as well as other technical information, documents to commercial team and customer.
- Conduct any Technical Application Request (TAR) that is related to new project/ product development to meet customer /project on time.
- Collaborate with suppliers to get new competitive with excellent quality of raw material, equipment, and technology to apply to our field.
- Evaluate new raw material to ensure the product performance and competitiveness or can be our innovation products.
- Collaborate with other regions for product and technology transfer.
- Provide technical training internally and externally for new products and existing products.
Production, QC/QA and SCM team support
- To assist in troubleshooting of any operational problem occur in production and suggest the solution.
- To assist and give suggestions in customer complaint to find root cause and make preventive action.
- To co-operate with sourcing team on finding alternative raw materials to produce products of excellent quality and deliver on time.
- To give some guidance for processing and critical control points for QC and production for smooth lab transfer to production
- To participate in the ISO/5S/Safety program including documents, workshop, and audit
Knowledge management
- Self-evaluation on technical knowledge and update skill metric and then put action plan for technical training with your team and supervisor to improve our team competency.
- Transfer knowledge, best practice from other regions and implement locally effectively.
- Update SOP & WI of all documents which are related to your work according to ISO regularly.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Polymer Science, Chemical Engineer, Polymer Engineer, or Polymer Technology.
- 3-5 years working experience in polymer or related field.
- Polymer Knowledge with basic knowledge/ concept of masterbatch / compound
- Colorant and or additive for plastic
- Basic knowledge on Conversion processes such as extruder, blown film, injection molding, etc.
- Good command in English both of writing and speaking.
- Basic computer software



