Overview
Head of Laboratory (Plastics Manufacturing Industry). We are a well-established global company with a presence around the world, a top player in the plastics industry. We are looking for our new Laboratory and Quality Control Manager for our Germany site located near Frankfurt am Main.
Responsibilities
- Managing a professional team of ~20 lab chemicals, quality control personnel and laboratory operators, responsible for their targets and tasks.
- Managing their training and pushing them to improve processes and performance.
- Building and maintaining a flexible and motivated team.
- Generating formulations recipes based on customer specifications and application-specific properties, responsible for providing ongoing response and support to production, sales team and customers.
- Developing and improving formulations.
- Improving and streamlining the laboratory work, including work methods and procedures characterization.
- Meeting product delivery times to customers while maintaining high quality.
- Compliance with regulations and the plastic industry standards.
- Managing interfaces with production, development, planning, purchasing and customer service departments.
- Cooperation with other laboratories at a global level as well as the headquarters.
Requirements
- Ability and proven experience in leading a team in a spirit of partnership and assertiveness.
- Practical experience in plastics processing, preferably in extrusion and injection molding.
- Experience in the functioning and application of additives.
- Experience in handling colorants, color measurement and color recipes (an advantage).
- Ability to read, understand and interpret specifications and technical documentation.
- Personal skills such as self-motivation, team player, committed, loyal, analytical, open to changes, resilience and reliability.
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Research, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance
Industries
- Plastics Manufacturing and Chemical Manufacturing