R&D Process Development Engineer

  • Lousado
  • Continental
Job DescriptionIn your role as process development engineer you are responsible to enhance, develop and industrialize manufacturing processes with focus on tire building and cold preperation. Your role as R&D function has a strong interaction to technology and material development. At the same time you handle the interfaces to central machine technology engineering, central quality and the plants to industrialize processes for tire building and perperation of semi finished products.In the process development team focusing on tire assembly (tire building and stock preperation) you will become the responsible interface in pilot production and industrialization as project member, project leader or as a line task. You will be shaping and implementing machine requirements, process specifications and global process rules to achive improved tire performances and production quality. For the evaluation of these characteristics you will perform statistical analysis of production parameters and execute processing trials.Hybrid work is possibile in this position with the "center of work" expected to be on site. We also count on your willingness to travel!Qualifications Master degree in an Engineering area (preferably) or Natural Science Aptitude or professional experience in tire business (processing, manufacturing or engineering) or R&D field, is valued; Project management skills; Self-organization and ability to work with autonomy; Good communication and interaction skill Capability to lead cross functional teams Capability to work in international teams Solid computer skills and Office tools; English language skills (written and spoken);Additional Information Integration in a challenging and international work environment, featured by the existence of state-of-the-art technologies Local employment contract with attractive remuneration package and benefits Continuous professional training and excellent possibilities of personal and professional development