Your responsibilities will be
- Health and Safety : Working within the defined Health and Safety standards - using laboratory knowledge to proactively suggest areas for improvement
- Support laboratory stabilities testing
- Sourcing of alternative raw materials
- Communication and Technical Support : Providing formulation details to the R&D engineer in order to provide R&D technical data and reporting the progress of all projects and activities to the R&D Engineers.
- Support supply chain
- Creation of formula codes in SAP as well as the corresponding technical documents.
- Monitoring of development checklists
- Provide technical support for new product launches
- Monitoring of formula changes
- Be the point of contact for Technical Commercial team ref to Customer Specifications
- Ensure the creation of raw materials in the system and coordinate with the relevant departments
- Reporting to the Industrialisation Engineer, the candidate will support the team with industrial testing, laboratory measurements, characterisation, and preparation of reports and presentations.
Skills and education we are looking for
- English and French: knowledge written and spoken
- Additional languages beneficial (German, Danish)
- Good user knowledge of : SAP, Excel, Word, outlook, internet
- Awareness of chemicals and laboratory practices
- Knowledge of SAP MM and EH&S, consultation and creation/management of data
- Understanding of company processes like raw material approval, formulation development, specification management, product launch, production.
- Understanding of main regulations related to chemicals and products.
What will make you successful
- Project reporting
- Benchmarking
- Accuracy and consistency of data
- Respect of procedures
- Respect of deadlines
- Clear communication to stakeholders
- Organised and able to work to deadlines
- Chemical awareness
- Accuracy of testing and results reporting
- Results driven and motivated
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work in teams and in a matrix organisation
- Ability to ease and act as a facilitator
- Confidence to make suggestions on continuous improvements
- Ability to communicate complex technical / legal matters in an explicit and comprehensive way.
- Strong quality and safety minded
- Process minded approach. Good organiser
- Ability to set up and to maintain SOP’s and procedures
- Propose solutions and improvements
- Pragmatism
- Accurate, fast and flexible execution of the different tasks
- Agility & adaptability