What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Development Specialist position at POLYVANTIS?
Job Title: Application Development Specialist
Location: Mount Vernon, IN (US)
Company Profile
A career at POLYVANTIS provides you with an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impact to the world and yourself. From excellent health and well-being benefits to our comprehensive learning programs, we offer a wide range of benefits and offerings that recognizes that our people have unique motivations and ambitions. It about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. Let us explore what matters!
POLYVANTIS is a global, multi-material player with the most coveted and iconic brands in the industry including PLEXIGLAS® for polymethylmethacrylate semi-finished products and LEXAN™ for polycarbonate sheets and films. With 1,500 employees and 15 production sites worldwide, we offer unmatched global capabilities, providing customers with innovative solutions in sheets, films, and profiles for air and rail, automotive, building and construction, electrical and electronic, healthcare, security, lighting, and signage markets.
Job Summary
The Application Development Specialist (ADS) acts as a contact point between customers, project team, design team as well as research and development to identify practical solutions for customer needs.
How You Can Be The Impact
Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work Monday- Friday during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.
We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.
Work Availability
Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work Monday- Friday during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.
Location: Mount Vernon, IN (US)
Company Profile
A career at POLYVANTIS provides you with an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impact to the world and yourself. From excellent health and well-being benefits to our comprehensive learning programs, we offer a wide range of benefits and offerings that recognizes that our people have unique motivations and ambitions. It about matching what matters to you with what matters to us. Let us explore what matters!
POLYVANTIS is a global, multi-material player with the most coveted and iconic brands in the industry including PLEXIGLAS® for polymethylmethacrylate semi-finished products and LEXAN™ for polycarbonate sheets and films. With 1,500 employees and 15 production sites worldwide, we offer unmatched global capabilities, providing customers with innovative solutions in sheets, films, and profiles for air and rail, automotive, building and construction, electrical and electronic, healthcare, security, lighting, and signage markets.
Job Summary
The Application Development Specialist (ADS) acts as a contact point between customers, project team, design team as well as research and development to identify practical solutions for customer needs.
How You Can Be The Impact
- Provide technical support to existing and new customers of POLYVANTIS sheet, film, and profiles.
- Understand and interpret material requirements of new customers, new products, and new business opportunities.
- Propose new material solutions based upon customer needs and POLYVANTIS delivery capability.
- Conduct industry analyses and recognize new market/technology trends, the need for new product solutions, and opportunities to improve POLYVANTIS’ sales and market share.
- Technical support includes (but not limited to):
- Lamination.
- Thermoforming.
- Cold forming and bending.
- In-mold decoration.
- Cutting, drilling, and routing techniques.
- Paint, print and adhesion techniques.
- Laser etching and printing.
- Build advanced process understanding, expertise, and develop training for internal and external customers.
- Support the introduction of new materials with application development ensuring process optimization at customer base.
- Handling, analyzing, and reporting of technical issues at customer base.
- Help to manage and maintain customer relations, while realizing new business with existing customers and acquiring new customers.
- Communicate to business the customer’s voice and KPI’s.
- Be recognized by customers as an expert in relevant technical areas.
- Advanced degree in Engineering, preferably in Material/Polymer Science and relevant work experiences in application and product development.
- Minimum five (7) years of experience in technical/process/application development.
- A hands-on and practical approach to problem solving at a customer level.
- Strong technical orientation and understanding of multiple processing technologies for multiple plastics.
- Time management and prioritization.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
- Provide value and solutions to customer’s requests.
- Presentation skills.
- Field role requiring up to 40-50% travel, mostly within North, South America and Canada region.
Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work Monday- Friday during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.
We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.
Work Availability
Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work Monday- Friday during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.
