Job Description

Avery Dennison is seeking a Product Development and Technical Support Engineer (ATS) to join our Performance Tapes North America team in Painesville, Ohio. In this role, you will collaborate across the organization to design, develop, and ultimately commercialize new products in a dynamic market space. You will also help support our sales team by providing technical expertise and solutions to our customers. This role is part of a larger team of new product development engineers led by the North American Director of R&D. Avery Denison is seeking an enterprising candidate with a propensity for solving highly technical problems and a strong desire to work with customers to understand their unique challenges.

In this important role you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with customers to define their product needs for new opportunities and offer technical support through their commercialization process.
• Designing experiments to determine solution viability for the specific application, interpreting the results of your experiment and presenting your technical recommendations directly to customers.
• Building technical relationships with key customers and developing industry knowledge to support new business development.
• Providing process support to customers for tape laminating, die cutting, and part application.
• Acting as project leader for new product innovation and business critical development projects. You will be responsible for all aspects of the product development process including the definition of customer requirements, adhesive development, qualification of new materials, and supporting product scale-up.
• Partnering with multiple internal departments including (but not limited to) sales, logistics, manufacturing, quality, and other engineers/chemists in product development.
• Assisting our manufacturing and quality teams in addressing adhesive and product related issues for customers. You will act as the key technical liaison between suppliers, manufacturing, and the commercial team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline required
• 3+ years experience in technical area with customer interaction is strongly preferred
• Process engineering or process support experience preferred
• Pressure sensitive tape and/or converting experience preferred
• Travel - 25%

Additional Information

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status. EEOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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