R&D Engineer

R&D Engineer

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree required (Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science preferred)
• 2-3+ years technical experience, preferably in a manufacturing R&D or Process role across multiple technical processes
• Demonstrated ability in applying scientific methodology (Design of Experiment and Statistical Analysis) and project management tools
• A curious nature with adaptable learning, communications and interpersonal savvy

Responsibilities

• Support representing the company’s technical voice to the customer in collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Collaborate to understand customer needs and rapidly drive the design, development and implementation of products and/or processes aligned to customer/market needs and business strategy
• Exchange standard/basic technical information to customer and stakeholder requests toward solving a customer/technical need
• Support projects within the innovation pipeline
• Collaborate with areas such as Engineering, Operations and Quality to resolve technical challenges, supporting sustained solution ownership
• Contribute to the definition of critical to quality specifications; author development technical specifications, waivers, etc.
• Support Stage Gate programs while learning core risk management principles and processes
• With guidance from other R&D personnel, plan, execute and analyze production trials with Design of Experiment, Lean, and statistical analysis, following organizational processes for aligning materials and execution
• Learn and apply foundational understandings of material/polymer properties and equipment capability in order to deliver best solutions
• Demonstrate basic technical skills and aptitude for problem solving
• Become familiar with different problem solving tools in leveraging internal and organizational curiosity to apply new ideas
• Gain knowledge of the intellectual property system and information management, in order to protect Amcor intellectual property
• Ensure documenting and reporting of work

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.