R&D- Application Development Manager
About The Position
The R&D – Manager of Commercial Applications is responsible for overseeing the application laboratory and leading the development and optimization of product applications. This role serves as a subject matter expert, particularly in rheology and product application supporting both internal stakeholders and external customers within the Industrial Wood Division. The role also serves as a technical applications expert for both existing and new customers, actively engaging in customer meetings to provide training and explain modifications made to application lines, ensuring adoption of best practices to achieve optimized performance of Industrial Wood (IW) products. Externally, the R&D – Manager Commercial Applications focuses on aligning lab capabilities with customer-specific processes to effectively simulate real-world application conditions, enabling robust product validation and continuous improvement initiatives. This includes conducting critical trials at customer sites, implementing products on customer equipment, and providing hands-on guidance. The role also involves training and supporting local technical service teams to optimize process parameters and achieve targeted performance using existing, modified, and newly developed products. Internally, the R&D – Manager Commercial Applications supports product development and lifecycle management by conducting application testing, validating product and batch performance, addressing quality issues, and benchmarking internal and competitive products. Additionally, the role provides technical training and knowledge transfer across technical, commercial, and cross-functional teams as needed.
Requirements
- Contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value
- Review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships
- Work demands may shift based on business priorities, requiring effective prioritization and occasional flexibility in work hours to support urgent or manufacturing-related needs
Responsibilities
- Overseeing the application laboratory
- Leading the development and optimization of product applications
- Serving as a subject matter expert in rheology and product application
- Supporting internal stakeholders and external customers
- Serving as a technical applications expert for existing and new customers
- Engaging in customer meetings to provide training and explain modifications to application lines
- Ensuring adoption of best practices for optimized performance of Industrial Wood (IW) products
- Aligning lab capabilities with customer-specific processes to simulate real-world application conditions
- Conducting critical trials at customer sites
- Implementing products on customer equipment
- Providing hands-on guidance
- Training and supporting local technical service teams
- Conducting application testing
- Validating product and batch performance
- Addressing quality issues
- Benchmarking internal and competitive products
- Providing technical training and knowledge transfer across technical, commercial, and cross-functional teams
Benefits
- Rewards
- Benefits
- Flexibility to enhance health and well-being
- Opportunities to learn
- Develop new skills
- Grow contribution
- Inclusive team
- Commitment to our own and broader communities
- Retirement
- Health care
- Total well-being
- Daily commute
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
