Araştırma Geliştirme / Arge Lideri

Bericap Kapak San.ve A.Ş.

About the job

Key Responsibilities

• Review, monitor and evaluate all technical improvement activities in packaging industry.
• Supporting all product and packaging projects in accordance with the company’s strategy.
• Searching the innovations, opportunities, patent applications and improving areas in packaging industry
• Having a scientific approach, work in an agile, entrepreneurial way of creating designs to bring new products and product technologies to company.
• Carrying out R&D Center and TUBITAK supported projects and preparing scientific articles to publish in science magazines.
• Taking the necessary actions to prepare R&D Center activity reports,
• Collaborate with technical authorities for R&D projects
• Simultaneously lead multiple projects with complex scopes, demonstrating exceptional project management skills.
• Collaborating with other internal departments such as Marketing, Sales, Purchasing, Production, etc. to study new projects and develop the team accordingly.
• Manage end-to-end development project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met,
• Manage technical timelines, communicate effectively, identify and address issues and risks, and develop contingency plans.
• Using multidisciplinary engineering knowledge to design and develop innovative products in support of company’s strategic plan.
• Understand customer requirements and testing procedures to develop new projects and  design new products
• Generate new products ideas based on raw material technology in the current Marketplace and Researching
• Analyzing the product for performance
• Conduct/follow up lab tests, pilot plant trials, and large-scale tests to optimize packaging performance within manufacturing facilities
• Creating quality-control spects, and information necessary for labeling on SAP for the newly developed products
• Leading quality improvement and cost reduction projects, Performing cost reducing work on existing products
• Maintain clear and comprehensive technical documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or MS degree in Engineering Departments from reputable universities
• 7+ years of R&D experience preferably in packaging and/or plastic industry
• Strong background in plastics and injection molding, design principles, and manufacturing processes,
• Excellent verbal and written English skills,
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to lead team-building initiatives
• Proactive and creative in development of new product
• Experienced in intellectual property
• Good knowledge of MS Office programs.
• Good knowledge of ERP systems (Preferably SAP)
• Good knowledge of CAD software (Preferably Solidworks)
• R&D Center experience,
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams
• No restrictions to travel,

With this position:

• Friendly, passionate, and energetic colleagues,
• An entrepreneurial culture of transparency, collaboration, and innovation,
• Working with international team,
• Opportunity to visit international fairs,
• Opportunity for continuous employment and self-development,
• Health insurance,