SABIC, headquartered in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), is one of the worlds' leading manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals. We supply these materials to other companies, who use them to make products on which the world has come to depend.
In Europe, SABIC employs over 6,000 professionals and is running 6 world-scale production sites and 4 technology & innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (The Netherlands) Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium). Based upon this strong fundament, we are a key producer of olefins, polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics resins, films and sheets in Europe.
The essence of SABIC is about powering ambition. Through what we do and how we do it, we power the ambitions of our customers, the society in which we operate, our business partners and our employees. Our focus puts our customers' success at the heart of what we do. It also fuels individual development. It is grounded in a deep understanding of what customers want and what we can best offer them. To achieve this we strongly invest in our most important asset our employees. We want to help you develop a career with us that challenges you in ways that really make you come alive. Make your career happen with SABIC.
Application Development Engineer Plastics Dach, SBU Specialities Job Description
Department
As the ‘home of unique offerings’ within SABIC, the Specialties Strategic Business Unit is focused on challenging technology endeavors that positively impact the way the world travels, communicates, works and lives. This SBU provides unique offerings such as high heat resins, functional compounds and additives, specialty fluids, nanotechnology and thermoplastics composites to industries such as Additive Manufacturing, Consumer & Industrial, Electronics, Healthcare, Mass Transportation, Automotive and Water Management.
Job Purpose & Responsibilities
- Identifies, develops and executes (new) business opportunities, primarily from a technical angle at assigned specifying and producing customer base, conscious of connections along the value chain, focused primarily on Specialties SBU products and services.
- Lead person for SABIC at the customer’s technical departments such as engineering, production and quality for technical and application development support, also responsible for the introduction of commercialized product & application solutions, interlinking customers with relevant internal technical functions in case needed.
- Support person to review or build content for product & application promotion tools for our customer base together with other relevant SABIC functions (Digital, MaCom, Growth teams), to assure sufficient data availability and understandable feature/ benefit /value statements.
Key Responsibilities- Commits to an uncompromising environment in terms of EHS&S, compliance to law and company policies.
- Interprets (new) customer needs/requirements, and initiates and leads in the internal cross-functional collaborative process of converting those to competitively advantaged material solutions, especially where these are technically more complex.
- Supports the selling of material solutions in selected focus applications to assigned customer base using value management principles, and shares the success broadly for translation opportunities.
- Delivers on planned milestones for the specific projects at the assigned specifying customer base by giving transparency in progress through Siebel Support Tasks.
- Acts as the lead contact point between the various technical functions within the customers’ organization and SABIC and internally for the Specialty team towards OEM & Growth teams, Product Management, T&I, TSR and GApT department.
- Builds, develops and maintains relationships with assigned key customer technical decision makers in engineering, production and quality department.
- Provides and shares timely consolidated techno-commercial information & intelligence with internal growth functions.
- Secures optimal technical support to customers, sales offices & SAM’s including technical complaint handling & problem solving at customer.
- Implements product optimization/ modification/ adjustment projects with product management & technology at customer base.
- Provides technical & product training at customers and internally in weekly technical & training calls, supports building commercial training & positioning tools.
Application Development Engineer Plastics Dach, SBU Specialities Job Requirements
Requirements
- BSc/MSc in Plastics or Mechanical Engineering.
- Technical (field) experience in B2B technical products: minimum 5 - 10 years with solid expertise in processing methods like injection molding & extrusion.
- Technical aptitude from identifying opportunities to positioning material solutions until commercial sales while demonstrating focus, goal orientation & decisiveness.
- Demonstrated expertise in & passion for application development and product / part design for engineering thermoplastic resins & compounds.
- Capability to perform tool trials, process optimization and trouble shooting at customers and to be responsible for technical issue resolution and claim handling.
- Knowledgeable to build training & positioning materials according to SABIC branding and providing/ facilitating training within the Specialty team.
- Proficient in the use of process oriented tools associated with LEAN, Six Sigma, FMEA. Ability to identify, lead, direct, guide, plan, develop new projects to sales.
- Proven interpersonal and collaborative skills – excels in high performing teams in a multi-cultural environment.
- Fluent in German and English language, French nice to have.
- Location Germany (area Karlsruhe/Stuttgart) home-based.
Further InformationImportant notice: please be informed that a reference check, an employment verification and E-assessment is be part of our recruitment process. A Certificate of Good Conduct can be requested depending the level of the role in our organization and/or function, allowing us to request dependant of local regulations.
People Who CanWe’ve always believed that it takes special people to make a difference. They need ingenuity, brilliance and the freedom to turn their ideas into reality. At SABIC, this is our culture. We find open-minded, gifted and questioning people. Then we create the conditions for their talent to flourish: fulfilling work environments, state-of-the-art technology and the empowerment they need. So when you work for SABIC, you’re the person who can find new solutions and possibilities that change the world for the better.
SABIC, headquartered in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of Petrochemicals, Specialties, Agri-Nutrients, and Metals. We supply these materials to other companies, who use them to make products on which the world has come to depend. At SABIC, we believe in using chemistry to power the ambitions of our customers, business partners, employees and societies we live in. We call this “CHEMISTRY THAT MATTERS™”.
In Europe, SABIC employs over 5,000 professionals and is running 6 world-scale production sites and 4 technology & innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (The Netherlands) Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium). Based upon this strong fundament, we are a key producer of olefins, polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics resins, films and sheets. D
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Application Development Engineer Plastics Dach, SBU Specialities Summary
| Education Backgrounds: |
Mechanical Engineering
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| Specialties: |
Manufacturing
Material Science
Molding Technology
Project Management
Research (R&D)
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| Education Level: |
Undergraduate (Bachelors)
Postgraduate (Masters)
Doctorate (PH.D)
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| Experience: |
10 - 15 years
2 - 5 years
5 - 10 Years
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| Languages spoken: |
English
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| Job Location: |
Frankfurt, Germany |
| Keywords: |
Key Responsibilities Commits to an uncompromising environment in terms of EHS&S, compliance to law and company policies. Interprets (new) customer needs/requirements, and initiates and leads in the internal cross-functional collaborative process of conver |
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