Senior Product Development Scientist – Filtration, Appleton, WI
FPC Bangor, a Forbes top 1% Executive Search Firms in the USA, is working with a global leader in air filtration. A successful candidate will collaborate with non-automotive filtration Research and Development Projects, while being responsible for new product development in the areas of Air (HVAC), Gas Turbine, Dust, and other non-automotive filtration business. Successful candidates will have a proven R+D track record of bringing ideas and concepts to life.
Responsibilities
- Technical support of filtration development projects in the US.
- Manage the transition of grades to the Appleton mill.
- Recognize market trends and customer requirements in industrial filtration and implement necessary changes in development, quality and production process to deliver differentiated solutions to the customer.
- Collaborate with planning, coordination and assistance of production trials in the Appleton mill
- Assure cost effective and production of new and existing filtration grades for our customers.
- Selection of raw materials, suppliers to assure quality, cost effective filtration production in the development area.
- Maintain and assure industrial filter efficiency is achieved through quality requirements, quality standards and the quality measures necessary in production.
- Collaborate to handle technical filtration claims with customers together with quality and sales, support production in solving the quality issues and install measures to avoid them in future.
- Partner with the Appleton mill R+D team, manufacturing, quality, and sales efforts to achieve customer expectations and grow sales.
- Provide training and transfer of experience to Appleton salaried leadership and hourly personnel. Ensure the development of all employees to the maximum of their potential.
Qualifications
- BS in Paper Science, Chemical Engineering or Chemistry required; Advanced degrees highly preferred
- Requires 10+years of R+D experience in wet-laid, Industrial Filtration (Air/HVAC, Dust, Gas Turbine, etc).
- Requires 10+years of experience product design, development and production implementation
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written. Experience working directly with customers.
- Demonstrated flexibility, ability to travel domestic and international, ability to work on multiple assignments
Please send resume and salary requirements to Basant Paradis.
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