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Covestro

Global supplier of polyurethanes and polycarbonates

Senior AD and Lab Leader

Process EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGuangzhou, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A master's degree in polymer, materials science, or a closely related field is required.
  • Knowledge of compounding, relevant chemistry and processing, and structure-property relationships is required.
  • Knowledge of safety, quality management, and intellectual property management is required.
  • Project management and leadership skills are required.
  • Fluent spoken and written English is required.
  • The ability to maintain a safe work environment and follow safe work practices, including when handling chemicals, is required.
  • More than three years of work experience in the plastics field is preferred.
  • Machine operation skills are preferred.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong analytical skills are required.

Responsibilities

  • Lead new product development for key business segments, including extrusion grades and relevant HTBP grades, in APAC.
  • Contribute to the Trial Master File and country-level study documents, ensuring essential documents are appropriate and filed promptly in the Investigator Site File in accordance with Core 46.
  • Assist the Head of the TPU AD Center in tracking enrollment innovation activities and ensuring progress remains on track with TPU APAC commitments.
  • Lead chemical laboratory members in new product development.
  • Manage multiple tasks, interface directly with customers as needed, and provide timely results to assure the quality of products shipped to customers in China, India, and Japan.
  • Help APAC innovation team members build knowledge and expertise in extrusion, particularly the aliphatic TPU film market.
  • Define technical standards and best practices across technical areas in collaboration with the INN technical laboratory, aligned with customer-side technical parameters.
  • Support pilot-line development in compounding and help arrange new production lines for scale-up.
  • Build the application and technical-support network, acting as the APAC technical hub.
  • Help APAC innovation team members determine the root cause of customer complaints and hand over specific technical work packages to laboratory colleagues in quality control for ongoing quality tracking.
  • Ensure adoption of state-of-the-art technologies and development concepts, and adherence to quality standards and approvability.
  • Assist in developing business growth opportunities in new or existing market segments to optimize growth, market share, profitability, and value creation, meeting or exceeding TPU short- and long-term business objectives.

Desired Qualifications

  • Team-oriented work style.

About the Company

Covestro

Global supplier of polyurethanes and polycarbonates

Covestro makes high-tech polymers, such as polyurethanes and polycarbonates, that are used in everyday products like cars, building insulation, electronics, and footwear. Its materials work by forming durable plastics and foams that add strength, lightness, and other useful properties to end products. Covestro became independent from Bayer in 2015, and now operates as a standalone materials company that focuses on innovation and sustainability. It differentiates itself through its commitment to a circular economy, aiming to make its operations and products fully circular, and by forming strategic partnerships (for example with Abu Dhabi’s XRG) to accelerate growth and sustainability goals. The company’s goal is to provide advanced materials while reducing environmental impact and moving toward a fully circular materials system.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Leverkusen, Germany
Founded
2015

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