Laboratory Manager - Plastic (Matrebatch) industry

About the company: Our client is a well-established company which is presented around the world, one of the top leaders in Additive and Color solutions for the Plastic Industry. From our base in France , we serve more than 3,000 customers worldwide, particularly in the sectors home, sport and leisure, toys, automotive, electrical and electronics, and building materials. We are looking for a new Laboratory Manager for the French site to oversee the local Lab activity and be a part of a successful global story. Responsibilities: · Managing a small professional team of Lab Chemicals (Colorists) , responsible for their targets and tasks. · Managing their training and pushing them to improve processes and performance. · Building and maintaining a flexible and motivated team. · Generating formulations recipes based on customer specifications and application-specific properties, responsible for providing an ongoing response and support to production, sales team and customers. · Developing and improving formulations · Improving and streamlining the laboratory work, including work methods and procedures characterization. · Meeting product delivery times to customers while maintaining high quality. · Compliance with regulations and the plastic industry standards. · Managing interfaces with production, development, planning, purchasing and customer service departments. · Cooperation with other laboratories at a global level as well as the headquarters Requirements: · Ability and proven experience in leading a small team in a spirit of partnership and assertiveness. · Ability to read, understand and interpret specifications and technical documentation. · Practical experience in plastics processing, preferably in extrusion and injection molding · Experience in the functioning and application of additives · Experience in handling colorants, color measurement and color recipes - advantage · Personal skills such as self-motivating, team player, committed, loyal, analytical, open to changes, resilience and reliable.

Location: Oyonnax, FR

Posted Date: 1/20/2025