Laboratory Manager

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.
Il y a 20 jours