Lead or support scientific investigations and process development to improve manufacturing processes for custom and catalog products.
Compensation
For California, the base salary range for this position is $91,105 - $118,752. Compensation for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience, location, etc.).
Responsibilities
Lead or support scientific investigations of deviations, process failures, adverse trends, complaints, audit findings, raw-material issues, and unexpected product performance.
Define technical problems and investigation strategies; apply solution chemistry, formulation knowledge, root-cause analysis, risk assessment, and data analysis to identify and verify potential causes.
Design confirmatory studies and recommend corrective actions, process controls, specifications, or monitoring plans.
Provide scientific support during manufacturing events, process start-ups, and implementation of corrective or preventive actions.
Lead planning and execution of test batches for new or modified custom and catalog powder and liquid products.
Requirements
B.S. Biology, Chemistry or related field
M.S. or advanced degree preferred
Nice to have: Experience with cell-culture media
Nice to have: Experience with buffers
Nice to have: Experience with liquid and powder manufacturing
Senior advanced manufacturing professional serving as a bridge between academia and industry, leading applied research and process-maturation projects at the AM2 Tech Hub Manufacturing Studio.
Compensation
Salary: $130,000 - $145,000
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary on-site technical presence at the Manufacturing Studio
Lead and support applied research and process-maturation projects in advanced and additive manufacturing
Help transition emerging manufacturing technologies from research environments to practical, production-relevant applications
Address manufacturability, qualification, process reliability, and scale-up challenges
Support advanced additive manufacturing technologies, including directed-energy deposition, powder-bed fusion, additive friction stir, robotic additive manufacturing, and related processes
Lead the scale-up, technology transfer and implementation of new products and processes across multiple Arxada manufacturing sites and external manufacturing partners throughout Europe
Serve as the primary coordinator for technical process support across the European manufacturing network, building strong relationships with internal production sites and external manufacturing partners
Drive technical troubleshooting and process optimization, connecting Production and Quality teams with the appropriate expertise from R&D Process Technology, R&D Analytical, R&D Applications, Regulatory and other relevant functions
Lead cross-functional technical projects using effective project management practices, establishing clear objectives, engaging stakeholders, defining project plans and ensuring delivery against committed timelines
Partner closely with regional technical laboratories in Hannover, Germany and Manchester, UK, including performing laboratory work when required
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Organic Chemistry
Lead local implementation, adaptation, and validation of products and processes transferred from Cronos Group’s Canadian R&D Center of Excellence to Netherlands operations.
Responsibilities
Own the execution of approved product development and technology-transfer projects in the Netherlands
Serve as the local technical contact between the Canadian R&D Center of Excellence and Netherlands operations
Build and maintain local project plans
Coordinate with Operations, Quality, and Engineering to deliver agreed milestones
Lead local cross-functional project meetings
Requirements
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline
Technical Project Manager provides technical and project leadership for complex development, industrialization, and manufacturing programs within Specialized Biomaterials Manufacturing.
Compensation
Salary: $90,000.00 - $115,000.00.
Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional project definition, establishing scope, technical requirements, deliverables, acceptance criteria, budget, resources, timeline, milestones, assumptions, dependencies, and risks before commitments are finalized.
Develop and actively manage the integrated project plan and critical path. Drive cross-functional accountability, manage dependencies, remove barriers, establish recovery plans, and escalate issues when project delivery is at risk.
Provide technical leadership and engineering judgment throughout project definition and execution. Challenge technical assumptions, manufacturability, development and scale-up strategies, costs, resources, risks, and timelines, and actively contribute to structured technical problem-solving.
For customer-funded programs, lead development of the Technical Proposal and SOW with Commercial and enabling functions, ensuring commitments are technically feasible, appropriately scoped, costed, resourced, and supported by an executable development and manufacturing plan.
Partner with Commercial and Complex Contracts throughout proposal and contract development to align technical scope, responsibilities, assumptions, deliverables, acceptance criteria, milestones, timelines, risks, commercial terms, change provisions, and contractual commitments before project execution.
Product Engineering Manager, Graphic Films Product Engineering
Lead the St. Paul laboratory-based Graphic Films Product Engineering team, providing day-to-day supervision, local leadership, and coordination for product engineers, technical personnel, contingent workers, and supporting engineering resources.
Locations (2)
Maplewood, Minnesota, United States
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Compensation
The expected compensation range for this position is $164,612 - $201,193, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.
Responsibilities
Leading the St. Paul laboratory-based Graphic Films Product Engineering team
Providing day-to-day supervision, local leadership, and coordination for product engineers, technical personnel, contingent workers, and supporting engineering resources
Establishing clear priorities, ownership, deliverables, timelines, and escalation paths
Providing technical direction and product engineering oversight for product performance, product maintenance, product support, cost-improvement activities, testing priorities, technical investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning
Lead product-development execution across innovation, renovation, productivity, quality-improvement, and customer-driven portfolios in retail and foodservice.
Compensation
Base salary range of $149,000-$180,000
Responsibilities
Lead product-development execution across innovation, renovation, productivity, quality-improvement, and customer-driven portfolios in retail and foodservice.
Align technical priorities, resources, milestones, and trade-offs to revenue growth, margin, customer need, risk, urgency, and probability of successful execution.
Partner with Operations, FSQA, Regulatory, Sensory, Culinary, Packaging, Category Management, Procurement, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, and customers to deliver integrated solutions.
Ensure manufacturing readiness, effective knowledge transfer to plants, and disciplined post-launch review and optimization.
Serve as a hands-on thought partner for high-value, novel, high-risk, or technically complex programs.
Partnering with global leadership, including the Senior Manager based in Germany, and cross-functional stakeholders to align local execution with global product engineering, business, quality, safety, and operational priorities
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