Automotive Market Development Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

* Responsible for managing development activities associated with TPE materials.
* Pursues new business opportunities through diligent customer and market development efforts:
* Identifies strategic markets and customers;
* Determines material requirements and specifications for targeted applications;
* Collaborates with Audia Elastomers product development engineers to develop material solutions to meet customer needs;
* Interprets sample results and provides data sheets and other material physical property information to customers;
* Coordinates and attends customer molding trials as necessary, providing feedback to product development regarding direction of future work;
* Presents a formalized data package of developed material(s) for customer approval(s).
* Interfaces with converters, Tiers, and OEMs to achieve and document Audia Elastomers product approvals.
* May support non-automotive applications in the given geography where expertise allows, and/or where a converter serves multiple market segments.
* Effectively promotes Audia Elastomers products and organizational capabilities.
* Submits call reports and monthly activity summaries concerning customer-related activities as requested by manager.
* Provides timely response to customer inquiries and complaints to ensure customer satisfaction.
* Performs other duties and assignments as directed by manager.
* Performs all duties safely and in compliance with documentation outlined in the Safety, Health & Environmental and defined quality management systems.

Recommended Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in engineering, science, or equivalent, and/or 5-7 years of experience with elastomeric (preferred) or plastic (acceptable) materials in the automotive industry
* Demonstrated ability to leverage technical strength to develop new business.
* Ability to build and maintain strong, long-term customer relationships.
* Ability to work seamlessly with commercial and product development teams to develop appropriate strategies to address customer and/or market need(s).
* Excellent communication skills, self-starter, sense of urgency, personable, and well organized.
* Skilled in the use of basic computer software, including word-processing and spreadsheets.
* Self-sufficient in terms of time management and support.

Working Conditions

* Environment – Commercial and/or home office as appropriate.
* Travel – Frequent travel, generally over 50% and can include international travel.

Responsibility for Safety, Health & Environmental

* Individual is expected to perform job duties safely and in compliance with documentation outlined in the Safety, Health & Environmental system.

Responsibility for Quality

Individual is expected to perform job duties in compliance with defined management system requirements