Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:
1. Manage actions and projects in line with the Innovation Plan / Road Map of MaT
2. Development and optimization of rubber compound recipes in order to meet customer / internal performance request, to fulfil environmental legislation, to reduce costs
3. Definition and optimization of standards for the manufacturing process of AVS components, from the rubber mixing to the injection moulding, extrusion and vulcanisation
4. Work in strong interaction with the Advanced Engineering, Product Engineering Department as well as our production sites
5. Liason with our customers and our suppliers in material and process technology matters
6. Definition of mixing specifications to external mixing suppliers
7. Collaboration with purchasing regarding “Chemical Commodity Stratefy”
8. Creation and maintenance of material database and other MaT documents
9. Investigation of reclamation and competitive-parts, preparation of reports
10. Supervision of chemical-physical elastomer tests, experimental tasks, as well as their evaluation, also by external test centres
Qualifications:
11. University degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or similar
12. Macromolecular knowledge
13. A rubber & quality management experience will be appreciated
14. Good managerial skills to be able to lead all matters related to rubber and chemical processes and efficiently interact with the other company departments
15. Good Team Player / Good Communicator
16. Familiar with standard IT-systems
17. Fluent in English and German
18. Willingness to travel regularly (especially within Europe, approx. 20-30%)