New Product Development & Application Engineer

POLYVANTIS is a global, multi-material player with some of the most coveted and iconic brands in the industry – such as PLEXIGLAS®, ACRYLITE® and LEXAN™ Film and Sheet. With 1,500 employees and 15 production sites worldwide, we offer unmatched global capabilities, providing customers with innovative solutions in sheet and film for air and rail, automotive, building and construction, electrical, healthcare and security, and lighting and signage markets.

A career at POLYVANTIS means you will make an impact on the Company’s success each day. We offer excellent pay and benefits, along with comprehensive learning programs to help grow your career. Apply now to join our team and we will become Stronger Together.

What The Role Delivers

Support POLYVAVTIS’s goals to expand its sheet product line by providing technical leadership on major product development projects and technical/application support for iconic ACRYLITE® and LEXAN™ sheet and coated sheet. Primary interface between sales, customer and manufacturing.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to improved safety performance by following all established safety and loss prevention practices, by demonstrating a high level of safety awareness and by proactively addressing all safety concerns.
• Protect health of employees, the community and the environment by ensuring that all activities performed are in full compliance with POLYVANTIS's hygiene standards and environmental laws and regulations.
• Identify and/or develop technologies for the manufacture of new products. Interact with POLYVANTIS manufacturing, sales personnel and external customers in the development process.
• Facilitate plant development schedules for assigned projects by planning, writing, and performing manufacturing trials with plant staff, ensure the resulting products are completely and thoroughly tested and evaluated for physical properties and fabrication performance. Provide documented analysis and results.
• Enhance existing products by identifying or developing new production technologies, formulations or procedures. Recommend changes to specifications for existing products.
• Provide high quality technical assistance to customers on all aspects of the properties and applications of sheet products, provide technical support for fabrication methods and technologies, and conduct training for customers in the applications workshop or the customer's business location.
• Provide expert troubleshooting assistance to the Sanford manufacturing facility, as needed, in areas of product expertise.
• Ensure the complete development of manufacturing specifications and procedures for new products by assuming technical responsibility for new product production runs until the product is accepted by the plant as "ready for commercialization".
• Support sheet product marketing efforts by contributing to marketing videos, eblasts, trade shows and fostering relationships with collaborative partners (i.e. router and printer companies).
  
  

What We Are Seeking

• Bachelor’s degree in a chemical, polymer, material science or mechanical engineering
• 3-5 years of technical/manufacturing experience.
• Knowledge of plastic sheet production and manufacturing technologies.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills for troubleshooting scale-up problems and major production problems.
  
  

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.