Project Manager Technology

**Location**:Bargen, 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“**Tasks and responsibilities**
- To manage R&D projects.
- To work for development and maintenance of Liquid Food Packaging UV / EB Offset ink portfolio.
- To perform laboratory studies, respecting objectives in term of quality, cost & lead-time.
- To optimise existing products or implementing new processes.
- To be integrated into an R&D laboratory where several BU’s are all working and using the same lab equipment.
- Bring technical expertise to the LFP team.
- To implement action plans, validated with supervisor to answer to a technical problematic
- To respect deadlines.
- To support internal partner and SCM team (Quality Control, Industrialisation, Procurement, Planning, etc..)
- To work with the analytical team in France and with the Regulatory team in Germany.
- To design, develop and test new formula or solutions according to specifications or objectives.
- To develop characterisation or evaluation tests.
- To ensure rigour of scientific method, reliability and relevance of the experimental results.
- To prepare and join, in some cases, internal or external validation trials.
- To analyse & document results, ensure traceability (results, recipes, samples).
- To characterise new raw materials (photoinitiators, 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 complaints and claims.
- 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 skills, 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-
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