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We are seeking an experienced and driven specialist in Materials Processing and able to support the advancement of our strategic growth plans and accelerate their execution. As a Materials Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our products, strengthening partnerships with suppliers and customers, and building technical capabilities within the organization. You are a central player on the global technical team, building innovative insights that drive technical excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-paced and global organization at the forefront of providing high-quality solutions to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive.

Materials Processing:

• Lead resin characterization, resin qualification, and change management activities to ensure continuity of supply and performance.
• Evaluate and screen new supplier materials for performance, quality, regulatory compliance and cost.
• Oversee resin grinding, sieving, conveying milling, blending, dust-collection, compounding and preparation steps required for downstream processing.
• Conduct pilot trials, scale-up trials and full-scale production trials, including data capture, risk assessment, and validation.
• Develop and optimize polymer processing equipment including sintering, melt extrusion, melt blowing, compression molding, injection molding, and post-processing operations.
• Establish structure-processing-property relationships to guide formulation and process selection.
• Troubleshoot processing issues, yield loss, and field performance deviations using structured root cause analysis.
• Partner with operations to transition materials and processes from lab to manufacturing and to optimize cycle time, throughput, scrap and material utilization.
• Qualify new tooling, equipment, and suppliers to meet product and manufacturing requirements.
• Generate technical documents including processing specifications, control plans, validation protocols, and reports.

Materials Development:

• Formulate and evaluate polymer materials for porous media, filtration, separation, or other performance-critical applications.
• Translate customer needs into material attributes, specifications, and test plans.
  Conduct lab-scale experimentation including resin selection, additives, surface treatments, and coating strategies.
• Apply material characterization tools such as laser diffraction, bulk density measurements, DSC, TGA, DMA, FTIR, SEM, rheology and porometry to establish structure–property relationships.
• Drive material down-selection and qualification based on manufacturability, performance, durability, safety and cost.
• Engage directly with resin suppliers to understand chemistries, stabilizers, regulatory aspects and long-term supply considerations.
• Support trial planning, application testing, validation, and documentation needed for commercialization.
• Contribute to intellectual property where novel materials or processes deliver differentiating value.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering (e.g., chemical, materials science, mechanical, industrial or a closely allied field) is required.
• 5+ years of experience in polymer materials development, polymer processing, and/or product development.
• Must be highly hands-on and comfortable working directly with polymeric and additive materials, prototypes, and lab-scale equipment throughout the development
• Strong experience in polymeric materials related products and test methods, preferably in technologies encompassing filtration, separation, or purification.
• Proficiency in statistical software/analysis and Microsoft Office Suite is needed
• Experience in commercialization of products (or product sub-components) through stage-gate processes in regulated industries (e.g. life sciences, automotive, health case, diagnostics, air care markets).
• Strong communication, problem-solving and interpersonal skills
• Product development and launch experience in an ISO9001and/or ISO13485 environment would be a plus.
• Willingness to travel 10-20% as needed for supplier or customer visits.

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.   

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates.  Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes.  With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.