Assistant Manager - Technical Development Polyurethane CASE

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Main Responsibilities

Administration & Management of EHS requirements:

• Support of internal / external ISO 9000 & IATF16949 audit.
• Responsible for the safety of the workplace with fulfilling the requirement from both local organization and regional requirements.

Product application and Project management:

• Handles management and resource planning for country TD team to prioritize projects & customers, monitor and prioritize resources as needed to ensure proper success rate.
• Aligns Technical Development resources with local sales needs to achieve trial and troubleshooting requests.
• Analyzes all opportunities, Identifies, coordinates, and follows up development of new customers business, new applications, relevant processing technologies.
• Coaches & drives Technical Development team in all customer/processing related requests.
• Aligns Technical Development resources with country Sales head to achieve local sales team support requirements.
• Secures Know-how/IP protection with PMD/Technical Development teams.
• Work closely with product management team to ensure reliable supply, monitor RM/FG cost and process optimization project to ensure competitiveness on market.
• Ensure that lab equipment for CASE in ATDC (Application & Technical Development Center) is well-maintained, always calibrated in desired frequency and in perfect working condition, particularly equipment used in daily Quality Control.

Technical support of market strategy:

• Drive as a coordinate to consolidate ASEAN CASE business update (data collection from CASE ASEAN Sales colleagues) & project update for timely and monthly update/report to CASE regional team.
• Identify and provide the guidance on CASE target applications, mapping with ASEAN country requirements.
• Provide technical inputs/ recommendation to strategy development.
• Visit customers to collect and analyze field information for industry trends.
• Aligns Technical Development resources with country Sales needs to achieve business support requirements.
• Aligns with regional CASE Technical development team and collaborate with CASE research developments regional team for having a necessary to drive and strive for a project achievement.
• Manages resources for TD/TS to achieve SBU/BM/country strategy targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3–5 years of relevant experience in the polyurethane industry, preferably in technical service or R&D, with exposure to polyurethane coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers markets.
• Expertise knowledge in PU System from product properties, product development, application development, processing technology.
• Good understanding on technical perspective on the related target applications of footwear industry.
• Full experience of PU applications in Automotive or CASE industries.
• Strong written and spoken English skills, with good computer literacy.

Work location

• Bangpoo, Samutprakan

BASF has been present in Thailand for more than 50 years. The company offers a wide range of products and solutions to support almost all the key industries in the country, including Agricultural Solutions, Intermediates and Process Catalysts, Monomers, Petrochemicals, Coatings, Dispersions and Resins, Performance Chemicals, Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health, and Performance Materials. BASF in Thailand was established in 1966 and maintains its head office in Bangkok.

It operates three production sites in Samutprakarn, Chonburi and Rayong, an Automotive Coatings Technical Competence Center, and a Performance Materials Technical Development Center in Samutprakarn. In 2024, BASF posted sales of €531 million to customers in Thailand and had 623 employees as of the end of the year. Further information is available on www.basf.com/th.