Development / Application engineer
Responsibilities
The job of development / application engineer is to make sure that Arkema’s solutions and products meet customer expectations and respond to market trends.
Development / application engineers act as the interface between research, production and the market, to create products tailored as closely as possible to customer needs and suitable for industrial scale production.
Duties
Development / application engineers are therefore a force of proposition, and provide technical advice to customers on several levels, by:
- Identifying new needs and new markets.
- Integrating and understanding their issues.
- Developing customized technical solutions.
- Helping to implement the solution chosen.
Skills and abilities needed
- Ability to incorporate customer needs and anticipate market changes as part of a forward-looking approach.
- Solid knowledge of chemistry and/or materials, and ability to continually upgrade this knowledge.
- A passion for research and technical innovation, creativity and practicality, listening skills and a sense of customer service.
- Proficiency in English is essential.
Education and experience
An undergraduate (or equivalent) or postgraduate engineering degree.
Career development
Possible development toward service management or business job functions.