ADJOINT CHEF DE PROJET ENCRES INKJET H/F

Job description

Agfa is active in Imaging and supplies hardware, software and digital imaging products and services for many different markets.
Agfa develops, manufactures and distributes analogue and digital products and systems for the making, processing and reproduction of images. Images that matter, sometimes even save lives. Images for healthcare, the printing industry and many other areas such as micrography and motion pictures. Although we generate our entire turnover in business-to-business markets, we contribute to your everyday life. Whenever you read a newspaper or visit a hospital, Agfa has probably been closely involved.
Agfa has achieved the position of a worldwide leader. Keeping the confidence and trust of our customers requires more than 'making products'. Today, we provide specific solutions, based on our research, technical know-how and the customer's needs. But we also prepare the solutions of tomorrow. This requires a vision, the vision to do more.
Poste et missions:
Adjunct project manager inkjet inks
Function content
The development of new ink formulations for inkjet printing systems for Printed Circuit Board applications (marking inks, etch resist inks, solder masks inks, … ).
As adjunct project manager inkjet inks you are responsible for:
- Independently leading ink development projects of limited size for inkjet printing systems for Printed Circuit Boards applications. This holds all aspects from the conceptual phase until product release in compliance with the product development process.
- Reporting on the status and progress of your projects to the project team and in technical meetings.
- Providing functional guidance to supporting competence centres (pigment dispersions, ingredients and analytics).
- Understanding the customer needs and proposing / testing the best available existing ink formulation. Follow-up of the evaluations of existing inks and adjusting if necessary. Via an iterative process the required product should be reached.
- You are responsible for the setup and execution of experiments to create and characterise new ink formulations and evaluate them in inkjet printers. You have knowledge of experimental design software.
- You analyse and interpret experimental results and use the conclusions to setup new experiments.
- You build up knowledge on the relation between structures and properties (structure of ink compounds vs. macroscopic properties of inks and printed images). You propose new building blocks and ink formulations based on these findings.
- You guide the scaling-up and introduction in production of new inks and make a proposal for production specifications and quality specifications for raw materials and semi-finished products (solutions and pigment dispersions).
Profil:
- You hold a master degree in a technical-scientific field (chemistry, materials science, … ).
- You are passionate, result-driven and customer-oriented.
- You are capable of running projects to develop new products independently. You collaborate positively with the members of multi-disciplinary teams, co-workers, business partners and customers.
- You are a problem solver with strong organisational skills.
- You are a strong communicator and have good interpersonal skills.
- You are fluent in English.
- You are stress resistant and perseverant.
- You work systematically, neat and safe.
Place of employment: Mortsel, Belgium @ Agfa Materials/MTC/IID.