Principal Accountabilities/ Responsibilities
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.
Education and experience requirements
Bachelor’s 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.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to develop and organize multiple projects.
Ability to work with a diverse, cross-functional team of professionals to deliver against key objectives and timelines.
Knowledge and understanding of absorbent hygiene raw materials, material interactions within product and converting processes preferred
Specific expertise in the following areas
Raw materials
Material Testing
Material Specifications
Trial planning and execution
Intellectual Property
Project Management
Knowledge of material science and analytical testing procedures.
Knowledge and use of statistical analysis.
Knowledge and use of Design of Experiments.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Minitab, as well as other office systems.
SAP knowledge preferred.
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 (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
Tuition assistance
Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 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.
