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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company · 3 months ago

Staff Engineer Compound Technology Consumer (m/f/d)

LU GICL

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is one of the world's largest tire companies, employing about 68,000 people globally. They are seeking a Staff Engineer Compound Technology Consumer to develop and maintain their compound line-up portfolio for Passenger Radial and Light Truck Radial tire lines, ensuring high performance through effective compound development and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Automotive

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Translating product performance requirements into chemical and physical property requirements of materials, and then developing tire compounds which demonstrate high performance

Own technical knowledge around Compound Development (crown and casing). This includes basic knowledge of reinforcement components and functional interaction

Execute Compound Development projects with cross-functional teams to deliver new technologies and capabilities supporting future Global Product and Technology development needs

Ensure support for Product Development teams where required to deliver to the global / regional businesses (i.e. material benchmarking, recommendations for compound choices, root cause analysis on compound related items)

Ensure support for tire plants during industrialization to deliver to the global / regional business

Develop new compound formulations and/or tune existing formulations and support Quality with industrialization along with EMEA Product Development roadmap for optimal performance (tire performance/ manufacturing performance) while considering cost and environment

Follow Global Technology GIR process. Leverage virtual development tools (modeling and (semi)empiric), design and execute/ interpret lab studies. Assist plant trials as required, prepare technical content, and execute technical reviews

Interact with functional expert groups

Provide compound/ component recommendations during all product development phases. Utilize material science expertise to answer questions from design and business team

Provide assistance for trouble shooting/ root cause analysis in materials area in liaison with other functions

Contribute to feasibility studies and DFMEA/PFMEA sessions

Provide support in related areas during product industrialization and ramp up

Drive support on product maintenance/claims in liaison with partner functions

Maintain functional guidelines, share knowledge using KMO best practices, stay up to date on external knowledge (publications, patents, scientific literature), participate in functional councils

Leverage compounding and processing expertise to assist plants and product development team during first compound industrialization. This includes material testing, trial execution and documentation and preparation of changes in compound formulations, specifications including execution of release documentation. Serve as partner to operations in case of business continuity, plant support request, complexity management

Technical proficiency: Drives and coaches on technical solutions, possesses a thorough understanding of technology and standards, coaches others on evolving technologies

Decision making/ problem solving: Collects inputs for quality decisions, considers alternatives, coaches others to achieve results on complex problems

Communication: Demonstrates the ability to plan and lead multiregional meetings at work group level

Project management: develops solutions to project risks, Takes initiative to drive existing and new methods and coaches others on project conflict resolution

Qualification

Compound DevelopmentMaterial ScienceRubber Compound AnalysisStatistical DesignElastomeric FormulationsMultidisciplinary TeamworkFluency in EnglishTechnical Documentation

Required

A Bachelors or master's in chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science or Biology is required

Experience on structure/property relationships in viscoelastic materials is necessary

Experience in rubber compound analytical data interpretation (physical properties, chemical composition, forensics reports)

Tire plant experience in mixing/component preparation and with tire production processes

Proficiency in the statistical design and analysis of data

Knowledge of polymers, fillers, and/or reinforced composites

Experience in elastomeric formulations scale-up

Strong ability to work in multidisciplinary teams

Exceptional communication and technical documentation

Open minded, dynamic, and collaborative spirit with a strong sense of urgency

Ability to travel (10 %) within Europe

Fluency in English

Preferred

A PhD in chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science or Biology is desired

Company

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 62,000 people and manufactures its products

Founded in 1898

Akron, Ohio, USA

10001+ employees

https://jobs.goodyear.com/

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