R&D Specialist in Process Science. Fiberline Composites

The primary focus of this position is research, development and engineering of the pultrusion process.

To be considered for this role, you will hold an advanced degree in Process Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science or similar qualifications in closely related subjects.

You will be part of a strong team of dedicated professionals. You will work within a team of specialists in Pultrusion Process Science in close collaboration with specialists in Composite Engineering and Mechanics, Chemistry and Materials Science. You will work closely with Operations and Production Engineering to implement your solutions in operational practice globally across Fiberline Composites’ production sites.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, carry out and supervise process experiments and trials in laboratories, pilot plants and factories.
• Work closely with specialists in Composite Engineering and Mechanics and Chemistry on new product development, and determine how new products can most efficiently be manufactured.
• Scale up the production process and determine and define process parameters to ensure quality is maintained during large-scale production
• Implement new process solutions and best practices globally across the company’s production sites
• Research and describe salient process parameters in the pultrusion process and investigate how they interact.
• Work closely with colleagues in Chemistry and Materials Science to characterize composite materials from the pultrusion process. Use scientific methods to understand relationships between input materials, process conditions, and product properties and characteristics.
• Investigate the causes of defects and invent improvements to the process.
• Develop insights and methods to control the process ever more precisely, with higher efficiency, better quality and less waste.  
• Work closely with Operations to implement your solutions in operational practice.

Your profile

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in Process Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science or in closely related disciplines.
• Knowledge and experience optimizing industrial processes.
• Expertise statistical process analysis and Experimental Design (DoE).
• Sound experimental skills and knowledge.
• Experience with composite materials processes is a strong plus.
• Experience with FTIR, DSC, DMA, Microscopy and Rheometry is a plus.
• Experience in scaling up manufacturing processes from laboratory to pilot to full scale manufacturing is a strong plus.
• Experience with numerical process simulation is a plus.
• Proactive, curious, structured and outspoken.
• Good communication skills with excellent ability to compile technical reports and oral presentations

Interested?

If you would like to know more about this position, please do not hesitate to contact CTO Casper Thorning ph. +45 25 27 76 08.

Apply for the job via Fiberline Composite's own website: https://www.innomate.com/INNOMATEpublicpagesMedarb/JobNotice.aspx?CompanyId=fiberline&JobNoticeId=119 

Fiberline Composites A/S – a technology-leading and sustainable company in global expansion

With headquarters and technology centre in Middelfart, Fiberline Composites A/S is a market-developing and knowledge-based manufacturing company and one of the world's leading manufacturers of advanced profiles of carbon- and glass fibre reinforced plastics. We develop and produce composite materials for the wind industry.

We have a unique technical position in the wind industry with energy-efficient and sustainable solutions, which will be rolled out to the global arena during 2022.

Part of a greener future

We take responsibility and do what’s right for the environment. We do our utmost to use our resources efficiently and protect the environment. We are not the biggest, but we are technology leaders. Our products are a technological prerequisite for wind turbine blades to get longer in order to generate more energy and in that way, we play an important role within renewable energy.

350 innovative colleagues with KNOW-how

We are about 350 national and international colleagues with a fascination of the possibilities of a new material and a belief in the importance of knowledge sharing and a good collaboration in an internationally inspiring environment. We all play a big role in a small specialist company, and common to all of us is that we contribute to the development of renewable energy.

Our slogan is: WE KNOW HOW, which reflects a technical and knowledge-intensive company with many exciting challenges. We are as global as we are local, and when we are not busy working, we have various employee events that strengthen us socially.

Do you want to put your energy, experience and competencies into further developing Fiberline Composites A/S as the preferred supplier to the wind energy producers, we are very much looking forward to receiving your application and CV for one of our vacancies.