Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

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LG Chem endeavors to become a 'Global Top 5 Chemical Company' with a balanced business portfolio that has a competitive advantage across the globe, including business divisions in petrochemicals, advanced materials, life sciences, and a subsidiary specializing in batteries.

LG Chem contributes to industrial development with various petrochemical products of the world-class quality. In the petrochemicals business, the company has built a vertically integrated system from the basic raw materials (the upstream) such as ethylene and propylene to the downstream products such as PE, ABS, Acrylic Acid and synthetic rubber. The petrochemicals business is LG Chem's core business area with the world-class productivity and cost competitiveness. The company has advanced its business structure by focusing on the high-value added products such as Nano-carbon tube, strengthening its competitiveness in the global market consistently.

We are actively searching for an Injection Molding Engineer with Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) or Plastics experience to liaison between our products and clients. In this role the Injection Molding Engineer, will have a polymer background such as Chemical Engineering, Chemical, Polymer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or others and will work directly with our client in the Automotive, Home Appliance or Consumer product industries. This position will be based in Ravenna, Ohio in our new Customer Solutions Center.

Responsibilities include :

• Research and develop advanced injection molding process and technology
• Provide on-site technical assistance to customers (troubleshoot problems, injection molding optimization)
• Research and investigate new technology which will provide practical solutions for customers
• Communicate with customers and provide solutions on / off line
• Design experiments, testing methods, CAE (Moldflow, etc) and schedule in a timely manner
• Prepare technical reports, data summaries and other technical documents
• Plan and set up the new equipment and tools at CS Campus, etc.
• Manage the lab (materials, machines, facilities) and create/implement SOP’s (Safety Operating Process Manuals)
• Hold injection molding technical seminars for customers and training for engineers, sales, CS staff
• Communicate and collaborate with HQ (suggest or given task), develop the technical road map

Requirements:

• Bachelor or advanced degrees in polymer, injection molding relevant fields such as Chemical engineering, polymer engineering, chemicals, mechanical engineering, etc. highly preferred
• 5+years experience in a mold manufacturing company (design or analysis), injection molding industries highly prefered.
• 5+years experience in injection molding or processing of thermoplastics and relevant fileds at OEM or Tier 1 of automotive, home appliances or consumer products.
• 5+years experience in plastic molding design and injection molding analysis CAE (eg. Moldflow)
• Extensive experience in developing and optimizing injection molding parameters
• Experience in machining, mold fabrication, assembly and mold maintenance
• Knolwedge of various thermoplastic materials and evalution tools (Microscope, rasidual stress anlayzer, PVT, Reholometer, etc)
• Collaboration with injection molding engineer, product designer and manufacturing engineer group at OEM/ODM
• Powerpoint, Excel, Words Skills
• Strong communication and coordination skills
• Strong background in problem solving, using multiple analytical procedures to identify and characterize injection molding problems

Personal competences & knowledge:

• Confident and reliable interaction with senior leaders, peers, customers and suppliers
• Be proactive, committed and high ability to communicate
• Positively impact team by coaching and mentoring for colleagues while sharing accumulated expertise
• Curious spirit with proven ability to work independently under pressure and comfortable in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Self-starter with excellent organizational and time management skills
• Strategic management competency: pro-actively identify problems, targets, relevant issues.
• Ability to evaluate data for strategic planning and forecasting as well as develop processes
• Knowledge of current industry procedures and methodologies is essential to make choices for applied procedures, risk and profit forecast
• Understand specific trends and data patterns that may impact business risk or profit.
• Ability to assume the leading role by the implementing new projects and developing new solutions with existing technology
• Strong documentation skills and high level of attention to details
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment with high degree of social and cross-cultural competency
• Continuous curiosity to learn and flexibility to change with the business needs
• Encourages collaboration and welcomes creativity for new ideas to advance the business
• Agile mindset with a positive attitude to change and meaningful growth
• Willingness to travel

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