Principal Engineer, Plastics, R&D Technology & Platform Group

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Summary of Position Responsibility:   

Leads development of new technology and product activities by utilizing advanced scientific theory and new technology in innovative original research for major business impact.  Strategic technical leader providing expertise across multiple business categories.  This individual works independently and interacts cross functionally to understand unmet needs, develops technical specification, and provides technical solutions, in form of new product or new services, and launches new products per business needs.  Provides scientific and technology leadership to associates and colleagues throughout the company. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: 

• Manages multiple projects simultaneously, on time, well documented and within budget to meet business and customer objectives. 

• Provides technical expertise and ensures technical excellence of the project. 

• Mentors on technical or scientific areas of expertise (e.g., experimental design, data analysis, and scientific techniques); serve as a subject matter expert. 

• Designs/documents complex experiments/protocols to align with project goals, both internal and external; develops experimental path to meet requirements. 

• Completes complex data analysis; for self and others, identifies and addresses problematic, potentially systematic, data; critiques results in relation to historical data; develops modified experimental paths based on results as appropriate. 

• Completes project deliverables; identifies levers for go/no go decisions and incorporates them into project plan; typically serves on projects of higher impact. 

• Identifies resources required to meet project milestones; makes recommendations for project resource needs within function. 

• Initiates and manages external collaborations/contracts relevant to project goals  

• Engages with external technical community to identify technical direction in area of expertise. 

• Bringing advances to technology into the company. Draws upon a wide range of scientific knowledge which he/she reduces to a base technology having a range of applications within the Company in support of business objectives.   

• Demonstrated body of work commensurate with position including but not limited to: development of new competencies, development of new products, implementation of new capabilities.   

• Practices legal boundaries surrounding information sharing and documenting; may lead brainstorming for intellectual property; may review legal agreements; develops patentable concepts and submit IP disclosures.  

• Able to communicate technically with internal functions, external partners and university collaborators, and customers and utilize knowledge to advance projects and identify productive synergies and apply these to find solutions/advancements.   

• Demonstrates open and collaborative approach in all areas of responsibility. 

• May supervise up to three subordinates usually made up of R&D Engineers and Technicians. 

• Effectively leads cross functional teams by managing (either directly or indirectly) others to execute and deliver project