Technical Director: Own the Full Materials Lifecycle

Crestwood Partners; Michigan; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Crestwood Partners has been retained to appoint a Technical Director for a long-established, specialist US manufacturer of precision-engineered advanced material products. You will own the technical strategy, roadmaps, and the entire product lifecycle from concept through production, spanning materials development, scale-up, and customer-facing discourse.

You will lead a team across powder processing, forming, thermal processing, grinding, finishing, and testing.

Responsibilities

• Technical strategy and long-term product and capability roadmap ownership
• New product development from concept through qualification into production
• Materials and formulation development across processes
• Manufacturing process development, scale-up and consistency
• Root-cause leadership on production problems
• Building and developing the technical and engineering team
• Senior technical relationships with customers who value deep technical knowledge

Job description

Crestwood Partners has been retained to appoint a Technical Director for a long-established, specialist US manufacturer of precision-engineered advanced material products. You will own the technical strategy, roadmaps, and the entire product lifecycle from concept through production, spanning materials development, scale-up, and customer-facing discourse.

You will lead a team across powder processing, forming, thermal processing, grinding, finishing, and testing.