Applications Manager – Coatings

Salary: £33,600 per year

Applications Manager – Coatings
Cheshire

Salary: Commensurate with experience

The Client:
A speciality chemicals and high performance materials manufacturer that is committed to improving the world through innovation. The business develops and creates new products that solve emerging challenges, created by business climate and customer need. These products are used in a variety of demanding applications, including plastic processing, automotive, oil exploration, bio fractions and technical textiles.

The Role:
The business is benefiting from substantial investment and as part of their continued development strategy, they are looking for an Applications Manager to drive growth in the coatings segment through leading associated technical activities.
The Applications Manager will lead Innovation projects, directly managing customer tasks and projects, and provide general support to organisational efforts in the coatings market.

Key Job Responsibilities:

· To lead short to long term programs and innovation projects related to the synthesis and development of new specialist materials and products.
· Develop the methods for processing and testing new 1K & 2K coatings containing specialist materials.
· Responsible for following the technical trends for coatings and maximising the opportunities for the company.
· Lead the Coatings applications laboratory.
· Supervise a chemist or technician and to lead cross functional projects.
· Ensure effective and productive use of resources and deliver results on time and in a quality assured way in support of innovation and technical services projects and support activities.
· Identify opportunities for improvement in the department across new products, processes, applications, analytical areas/techniques and market possibilities.
· The job holder is expected to acquire knowledge and keep up to date with the developments in the field of polymer technology in particular related to coating technology for job, performance and personal improvement.
· Identifies, proposes and evaluates innovative ideas/materials/chemicals/processes for new product and process development.
· To observe legislative, safety, and environmental requirements of the site.

Key Work Assignments:

Project and tasks management:
· Understand customer and market needs and turn these into viable business opportunities.
· Manage the associated projects or tasks to realize these opportunities as agreed with the Director of Innovation.

Technical support:
· Provide technical content at customer meetings.
· Make technical qualifications of our products.

Technical market specialist:
· Follow and report on the technical development of specified segments of the coatings market.
· Translate and drive actions to manage opportunities and threats to the business.
· Make external technical marketing support materials including presentations, webinars, conference and journal papers and input to our overall marketing material.

Laboratory Activities:
· Develop in-house lab capabilities, and lead experimental data generation for specific applications.
· Build a network of external lab or university partnerships.
· Expected to be highly knowledgeable of the Company’s products and plant process’.

People Management:
· Manage, guide and coach lab personnel under the supervision of the job holder.
· Perform staff appraisals according to set processes.

The Person:

· BSc, MSc or PhD in Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
· Extensive experience within an industrial laboratory experience with a track record of increasing responsibility.
· Demonstrated expertise in formulating and testing coatings compositions.
· A strong working knowledge of analytical chemistry, polymer physical testing and thermal analysis methods.
· Practical knowledge of laboratory safety principles especially in conducting risk analyses and assessing hazardous chemicals (REACH, COSHH).
· Evidence of training and good project management skills.

Our Client have retained Listgrove to manage this project on their behalf and all third party applications will be forwarded for their attention. Fees will not be payable to recruitment consultancies that send speculative candidate applications.

For EU roles, candidates must be eligible to work and live in the European Union.
Proof of eligibility will be required with your application.

Office Locations: Stratford-upon-Avon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Düsseldorf, Lyon, Milan, Shanghai, and Washington.

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