Project Manager Technology

Aarberg (L080.AA), CH, 3282

Ink, Heart & Soul – our company philosophy expresses what our customers experience every day. We produce individual ink solutions in close cooperation with our business partners. We are steeped in tradition, yet international and modern. With currently 5000 staff we supply and support customers anywhere in the world. As a family business with a professional management we offer quick decision making, great scope for responsibility, a strong corporate culture and opportunities for professional growth. If you would also like to be involved with Heart & Soul, then you should join us.

Project Manager Technology (m/f)

for our department Research & Development within our BU „Liquid Food Packaging“

reporting to the R & D Manager based in France (Annemasse)

Tasks and responsibilities

• To manage R&D projects.


• To work for development and maintenance of Liquid Food Packaging UV / EB Offset portfolio.


• To perform laboratory studies, respecting objectives in term of quality, cost & lead-time.


• To optimise existing products, or to implement new processes.


• To be integrated into a R&D laboratory where several BU’s are all working and using same lab equipment’s.


• Bring technical expertise to LFP team.


• To implement an action plan, validated with supervisor to answer to a technical problematic


• To respect deadline.


• To support internal partner and SCM team (quality control, industrialisation, procurement, planning, etc..)


• To work with French analytical team and with PS&R team.


• To design, develop and test new formula or solutions according to specifications or objectives.


• To develop characterisation or evaluation tests.


• To ensures rigor of scientific method, reliability and relevance of the experimental results


• To prepare and join, in some cases, internal or external validations trials.


• To analyse& document results, ensure traceability (results, recipes, samples).


• To characterise new raw materials (Photo-Initiators, acrylated resins or monomers, pigments, additives, etc…) according to LFP requirements.


• To maintain raw material and intermediates stock as lab equipment, for lab purpose according to needs.


• Can be in contact with supplier in the frame of R&D projects or complain and claim.


• To participate to the laboratory activities (maintenance of working conditions, 5S, cleaning, metrology, respect of local safety rules).


• Proposes and implements solutions to improve lab management (maintenance of working conditions, storage, clean workstations, methodology, compliance with QHSE rules, investment in equipment ...).

Qualifications

• successful completion of studies in chemistry


• several years of relevant professional experience within the printing ink industry


• good analytical skill, structured thinking


• excellent team worker, autonomous, rigorous and well organised


• bilingual in German and English is a must


• good knowledge in MS-Office, SAP is an advantage

As the worlds largest privately owned printing ink manufacturer we can guarantee short decision-making processes,

a strong company culture and exciting challenges. Join our colourful Siegwerk world!

Siegwerk Switzerland AG

Neuenburgstrasse 48, 3282 Bargen BE / Switzerland

Frau Brigitte Hohl, Head of Human Resources, Tel. 0041 32 391 72 13

E-Mail brigitte.hohl@siegwerk.com, www.siegwerk.com

Why Siegwerk?

Joining Siegwerk means joining a successful, global, ambitious company. It means being part of an industry with exciting growth potential, and it means working as part of an extended, close-knit team that will give you the support and co-operation you need to achieve your career goals.

Siegwerk is an international business, but it’s also a family-owned business. That means its focus is long term, and strategic; investing for growth and creating a stable, supportive work environment. An environment that lets great talent be great.

Join Siegwerk and get the best of both worlds – a company thinks like a global leader, but acts like a family.