FTZ Coordinator

Overview

Development Engineer in flexible film. Leader in their industry has an immediate need for a development engineer in the western, WI area.

As a member of the technical group, the development engineer will have the following primary responsibilities:

• Work with assigned customer list and foster positive relationships to drive growth and profit.
• Interact with technical and project personnel internal to our company as well as customers and suppliers.
• Translate customer performance requirements into product recommendations or new product designs.
• Interact with manufacturing personnel to optimize product design for ease of manufacturing
• Prepare and submit BOMs, technical documents and descriptions to the commercial team to be utilized for product recommendations and to generate costing/price models.
• Follow the ISO Stage Gate system for project management and tracking.
• Interact with raw material suppliers to stay current with polymer systems, market films, processing and converting equipment, physical property testing techniques, and packaging equipment.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

• Requires a solid understanding of resins used in flexible films packaging and the extrusion equipment used to create these film products.
• Ability to ensure customer requirements are fully understood and translated into products that move toward commercialization at the rapid pace of our converter customer base.
• 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
• Self-starter and ability to work independently as needed
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with limited information and drive to quick success.
• S. Degree in Chemical or Polymer Science/Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in product development, process engineering or related areas
• Experience working with coextruded cast/blown film equipment and product development activities.
• Willingness to travel 20-40% of the time