Summary:

We are seeking a strong and experienced Process Developer with a Blown Film background for an award winning (for culture and performance), leader in the flexible packaging industry. This role will work on long term development projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of films from concept creation to launch using existing or new assets.
• Extensive interaction with technical and project personnel both internal to our company and external vendors to understand performance requirements and equipment capabilities for new product proposals.Must define those requirements using key physical properties, visual standards, and performance characteristics.
• Broad use of polymer science and engineering principles to solve product and production challenges and invent new products/processes.
• Ability to connect technologies and concepts to business potential
• Design and conduct experiments to validate product performance
• Interact with manufacturing personnel to optimize product design for ease of manufacturing
• Office/Meetings and Lab/Pilot-Plant/Production time allocation expected to be around 50:50
• Ability to identify patent opportunities, prepare legal literature, and work with the Legal group to prepare applications
• Prepare and submit BOMs, technical documents and descriptions to the commercial team to be utilized for product recommendations and to generate costing/price models.Key is to help the organization understand the value of the innovation
• Follow the ISO Stage Gate system for project management and tracking.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Process Development experience
• 2+ years of Blown Film experience
• Engineering degree required
• Requires a solid understanding of resins used in flexible films packaging and the extrusion equipment used to create these film products.
• Requires supplier interaction to stay current with new and existing equipment, polymer systems, market films, processing and converting equipment, physical property testing techniques, and packaging equipment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, including planning, time lines, weekly communication, and key project updates.Comfortable with managing changing priorities
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong planning/organizing skills
• Ability to effectively communicate/present findings to a wide variety of audiences
• Knowledge and use of Six Sigma tools for analyzing data