Innovation Development Manager
7 days ago
About the Role
Thomas Brooke International is seeking a highly skilled Innovation Development Manager to join our team. As a key member of our innovation team, you will be responsible for developing innovative polymer-based materials for coated textile applications and driving the innovation pipeline forward.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain current knowledge of emerging technologies and opportunities for the Company to develop new innovative materials and processes that align with future applications and market opportunities of interest.
- Directly lead development of market-focused next-gen and brand-new products, including generating IP, to keep the Company leaning forward to solve problems customers may not have even fully articulated.
- Manage technicians and work hands-on in the lab, as this is a non-remote role.
- Work closely with Operations and Engineering to develop strong internal relationships at all levels to facilitate getting line time for new product trials, understand operator challenges to optimize manufacturability, support Process Engineering team with material or formulation adjustments, etc.
- Educate and support the Sales team in understanding the key benefits of new products to ensure successful commercialization.
- Analyze existing product performance, characterize materials, and be the expert in existing product lines.
- Write technical papers, give presentations at industry conferences and technical events to promote the Company's innovation leadership.
- Interface with customers for product testing/trials and technical support to ensure the correct product selection with the right characteristics for a given application.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Polymer Science, Polymer Engineering, or similar relevant discipline is REQUIRED. An advanced degree is very helpful.
- 5+ years of industrial (i.e., non-academic) experience formulating polymer-based products, including coatings technology and formulation, is REQUIRED.
- Meaningful cross-disciplinary experience spanning product and process development, with a solid understanding of structure-property relationships specific to the interaction between materials, is REQUIRED. Direct experience with composites and/or laminated materials is very helpful.
- Excellent analytical and material characterization skills, including statistical analysis, failure analysis, etc., are REQUIRED. You must be able to get to the root cause of a problem and offer solutions.
- Practical problem-solving and results orientation are REQUIRED. You must be able to focus on outcomes, not on process for its own sake.
- Good communications, public speaking, and presentation skills are REQUIRED. You must be comfortable presenting to audiences of varying technical knowledge and communicating at all levels internally and externally.
- Good EQ and diplomatic skills are REQUIRED. You must know how to get things done, influence, and collaborate without a direct line of authority.
- Good sense of humor and manageable ego are firm requirements.
- Willingness to live/relocate to the York, PA area and travel 10-20% is REQUIRED.
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