Responsibilities: 

• Maintains awareness of trends in bio-composite and bio-derived materials as well as underlying societal and market drivers through appropriate sources. (e.g. journals, trade publications, news, academic sites, trade shows, conferences, continuing education)
• Executes research, development and testing methods.
• Participates in relationships with outside partners in academia, industry and start-up companies.
• Interprets physical and analytical material testing results; uses results to make informed decisions.
• Directly interacts with new and potential outside market sources to understand and rationalize potential customer needs using direct interviews, phone interviews, questionnaires and surveys.
• Interacts with senior engineering and management staff for idea exchange and guidance.
• Develops product/process specifications, test methods and interprets customer requirements.
• Identifies potential opportunities; weighs against company alignment, internal and external potential, resource risk and other relevant factors.
• Identifies potential industry and academic partners needed to capitalize on proposed ideas.
• Writes test plans for technicians in Business Development Engineering and supporting departments.

 Qualifications:

•  A Bachelor’s degree in Polymer Engineering, Plastics Engineering, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering or related field of engineering with 2-5 years of experience in formulating, and testing polymer-based composites.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

MUST HAVE

A Bachelor’s degree in Polymer Engineering, Plastics Engineering, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering or related field of engineering with 2-5 years of experience in formulating, and testing polymer-based composites.