Manager - Research & Development - Adhesions Firm

Providing global technical assistance

- Lead specific assignments/projects (short term and long term) to improve the adhesion based upon requests of the manufacturing plants and central R&D teams. In this respect, working closely together with other process experts, R&D engineers, global lab facilities, plant teams, and quality is needed.

- Leverage compound/rubber knowledge and competency in adhesion testing to assist in resolving adhesion issues between steel cord and rubber.

- Provide assistance on customer approvals related to adhesion in a timely manner by ensuring the critical process drivers are in place resulting in test results that work favorably.

- Translate domain knowledge, related application know-how and awareness of operational considerations into inputs for process and product design.

- Develop and maintain process domain expertise

- Develop expertise on the overall steel cord manufacturing production process that comprises of: drawing, thermal treatment, plating, and cord manufacturing technology.

- Develop a sufficient understanding of how each process influences the other downstream.

- Monitor closely new developments in the external world (patent research, literature, and conferences) and report insights that could add value to the specific domain of expertise.

- Develop adhesion testing expertise, monitor compound developments related to steel cord usage and related tyre application knowledge to leverage expertise in the development of solutions to customers and steel cord manufacturing plants.