Material Development Engineer
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Job Location:
Lewistown, MT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a Material Development Engineer for our First Quality Retail Services location located in Lewistown PA. This position will be responsible for leading material development and the material cost innovation work process while ensuring consistent material quality supply and material processability on our lines for our absorbent hygiene products. This individual will lead some material innovation activities and work with & provide technical expertise for continuous improvement activities of the process teams for new and existing products within the business unit. This role will work in collaboration with each facilitys process Engineers operations Quality Engineers and Product Developers in addition to working with our external supply partners. This individual will lead both internal and external trials in specific material categories and provide subject matter expertise to support business needs.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Promotes a safety culture embracing safety as a core value instilling and exemplifying a safety mindset for all team members resulting in an incident free workplace.
- Works in conjunction with Quality department to ensure consistent raw material quality and that finished product satisfies all finished product quality standards.
- Work closely with suppliers external partners and internal team members including quality and process team members to define material needs and create/refine/review raw material specifications.
- Work closely with both production and process team members to ensure good material processability on our converting lines.
- Support funding the growth activities related to materials for the Absorbent Hygiene business.
- Investigate new material and relevant technologies and collaborate with PD team members to continuously improve our absorbent hygiene products.
- Develops deeper material understanding for some of the material categories such as non-wovens films pulp sap adhesives elastics and laminates etc.
- Develops Intellectual proprietary (IP) where applicable to establish competitive advantage and ensure FTP for performance and cost innovative materials
- Assists in planning conducting analyzing and interpreting technical services.
- Responsible for project planning and execution on commercial and pilot line trials.
- Responsible for evaluating analytical data including material characterization and relaying the information to non-technical personnel.
- Responsible for organizing Material Development pipeline and raw material qualifications.
- Always maintains a high level of professionalism.
- Performs other duties as defined
The ideal candidate should possess the following:
- Bachelors in Chemical Engineering/ Polymers/ Materials Science or Mechanical Engineering preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years in Project or Process Engineering experience.
- Minimum of 5 years in industrial experience.
- Minimum of 2-5 years Material Development/Process experience.
- Experience in a lean manufacturing environment preferred.
Work Environement:
- Hearing Conservation Program environment hearing protecting is required.
- Production warehouse and office environments with varying temperatures.
- Must be able to work near moving equipment
- Travel up to 25% may be required.
What We Offer You
We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
- Paid time off (three-week minimum)
- Medical dental and vision starting day one
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
- Bundle of joy benefit (years worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
- Tuition assistance
- Wellness program with savings of up to $4000 per year on insurance premiums
- ...and more!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who as a result of their role specifications may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability sexual orientation gender identification or protected Veteran status.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Root cause Analysis
- Spectroscopy
- Fabrication
- Mechanical Engineering
- Process Engineering
- Research & Development
- Plastics Injection Molding
- Non-Destructive Testing
- Product Development
- Manufacturing
- Microscopy
About Company
Why We Make Things Better: We Care. Welcome to First Quality®. Every day, we strive to make the best products to improve the lives of our customers, partners, employees and communities.
