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.