Color Systems Manager: Plastic Color & Quality

Klöckner Pentaplast Europe GmbH & Co. KG; Gordonsville (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Klockner Pentaplast is seeking a Color Systems Manager in the United States (Virginia). You will lead color development, matching, and maintenance for our plastic films, collaborating with marketing, sales, production, pigment suppliers, and instrument vendors to drive color consistency and cost-reduction initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work, setup of spectrophotometers, data analysis, and training production staff.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school.
• Experience with color development and matching.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.

Responsibilities

• Interacts with pigment suppliers to evaluate new pigments for cost-reduction and formulation improvement initiatives.
• Provides custom color matching for customer requests, from lab to production scales.
• Maintains color measurement instrumentation and software across North American facilities; trains staff.
• Develops color targets and specifications; monitors data to ensure color consistency.
• Leads investigations into pigment-related processing and quality issues with corrective actions.
• Creates and maintains color recipes within the ERP system.
• Drafts and implements new laboratory test methods and procedures.

Skills

Color measurement

Spectrophotometer expertise

Statistical methods

Team collaboration

Excel proficiency

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent

Tools

ERP system knowledge

Spectrophotometer setup

Job description

Klockner Pentaplast is seeking a Color Systems Manager in the United States (Virginia). You will lead color development, matching, and maintenance for our plastic films, collaborating with marketing, sales, production, pigment suppliers, and instrument vendors to drive color consistency and cost-reduction initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work, setup of spectrophotometers, data analysis, and training production staff.