Address Job title : Junior Assistant Manager - Applied Technology
Reporting to : Technical Service Manager
Business Line : Comfort & Insulation
Work Location : Mumbai
Entity : Evonik India Pvt. Ltd
Purpose of the position:
- The PU laboratory will be run and administrated under the internal and external procedures and regulations.
- Customer or innovation related lab work is carried out & reports are created.
- Tracking of KPI figures for key lab group tasks is conducted.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible to assist the Regional Technical Manager to conduct chemical & physical laboratory tests & making qualitative & quantitative analysis of foam materials for troubleshooting, formulation development/ finetuning & New customer projects.
- Responsible for assigned lab projects from all categories (customer projects / innovation projects / positioning projects).
- Responsible for additive screening in the formulation to get desired results.
- Responsible to perform lab experiments (by hand mixing / machine) in the lab with different formulations, quality testing of foams to assess the product performance, raw material analysis & testing, identification of relevant test methods in alignment with customers (if applicable), if necessary, adjustment of methods within complex test setups to optimize results. Within the projects: production of different formulations to assess the product performance.
- Responsible to arrange lab tour for the customer visits.
- Responsible person for issue, review & update of instructions and procedures in alignment with global OU responsible persons; execution of all relevant Global Code of Conduct, ESHQ rules, EHS Audit, Internal & external Audit in the OU Lab.
- Documentation of lab work results in tables, reports or presentations to ensure proper choice of innovation products & product recommendation for customers.
- Managing the inventory of chemicals, consumables, and equipment. Ordering, monitoring and disposal activities of chemicals and scrap foams.
- Maintain the equipment and the work area in good operating conditions, doing preventive and corrective maintenance.
Education, Certification and/or relevant experience required :
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry / Polymer Science or Engineering in Chemical / Polymer Technology with 3-6 years of experience in similar profile.
Additional skills and abilities required for this position :
- Highly innovative and willing to take initiative to tackle complex technical challenges.
- Able to apply good project management principles to internal & external development projects.
- Good communication skills and fluency in English. Other languages are an asset.
- Basic IT skills.
- Good Team player.
- Excellent interpersonal skills & adaptability.
- Analytical thinking & problem solving.
Technical Knowledge :
- Demonstrated expertise in formulations, prototyping and application developments.
- Preferably candidate with flexible Polyurethane foam experience background.
- Proven track record of successfully running assigned project experiments in the lab.
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