Saint-Gobain Weber - R&D Manager Façade

Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. They can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.

Today Saint-Gobain employ 13,000 people across 100 businesses in the Nordic and Baltic region and over 190 000 are employed World Wide.


More information at http://www.nordic.saint-gobain.com

Job:                       R&D Manager Façade


Group/Team:        WEBER Saint-Gobain Sweden AB.

Location:              Malmö

Reports to:           R&D Manager Sweden



BACKGROUND

“ONE OF THE 100 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN THE WORLD” 





Research and Innovation are at the heart of Saint-Gobain’s strategy. The Group’s research focuses both on breakthrough innovations and on continuously improving its products, processes and services in a spirit of openness and attentiveness to customer needs.



The Group’s ongoing initiatives in this area are paying off; in 2015, Saint-Gobain ranked among Thomson Reuters’ Top 100 Global Innovator Companies for the fifth year in a row.



Designing innovative, high performance products and solutions to improve our habitat and everyday life is at focus and the result is also visible in figures.



The cross-functional R&D programs prepare the future of the Group’s business lines and their development by anticipating major changes in techniques and markets. These cross-functional programs, linked directly to the work axes of the marketing groups, allow it to organize skills common to the Group’s various Activities and to improve Saint-Gobain’s ability to develop key technologies.



SAINT-GOBAIN NORDIC INNOVATION

The tradition of how we build and the physical environments in which we live differs from region to region, from country to country. Because of this innovation at local level is an important area for Saint-Gobain.



Where central innovation is the foundation for the success in creating superior solutions, the local adaptations and the local inventions is key to ensuring that all our solutions are "just right" in the area where they are produced and applied. In the Nordic and Baltic region we have several local R&D centers across the region. Saint-Gobain recently started a new cross-business research center for the Nordic region. The research centers maintain and develop the highest level of skills and key technologies for all the brands in the region. The center will facilitate research into new products more closely tailored to the Nordic market requirements.









THE ROLE AS R&D MANAGER FAÇADE

The WEBER R&D Team in Sweden consist of 12 employees in Malmö and Vingåker. All development projects are coordinated within Weber Saint-Gobain Nordic and Baltics. You will therefore work internationally within Sweden, the other Nordic countries as well as the Baltic States.



Your main responsibility will be to maintain and improve Webers’ mortars which are part of the façade systems. You will lead as well as support and participate in development projects for new and existing façade systems within the area rendering and masonry mortars. Important components of the work are the analysis of technology and markets in order to advance basic knowledge, develop and apply new technology, and to develop products/systems for the Business Units. For long term development you will participate in international projects within the network of Saint-Gobains ´ laboratories. You will actively coordinate lab work and plan and evaluate related tests, improve test methods, and document results. You will cooperate with concept management to decide future development needs.



You will also be an active part in projects we have with major stakeholders and universities in the Nordic Countries.



Other tasks, activities and responsibilities will include:


* Plan, manage, evaluate and report decided development projects.
* Support with technical expertise in other activities of Weber, S-G Sweden AB.
* Work in close cooperation with Marketing and Supply Departments to achieve competitive and cost
* efficient solutions.
* Work in close cooperation with Operations in order to secure an effective and quality assured
* production.
* Contribute as expert in collaborative work within the Nordic Baltic R&D organisation.
* Plan and evaluate related tests, improve test methods, and document results.
* Document final product properties.
* Analyse (technical and business aspects)
* Establish and maintain global contacts within Weber activities, internal and external to Saint-Gobain.
* Be an active part in projects we have with major stakeholders and universities in the Nordic Countries

 

CANDIDATE PROFILE

We are looking for candidates with a R&D background and in possession of a M.Sc in related technical field (Building Materials, Building Physics, Chemistry, Materials science or equivalent) with several years of R&D work experience. You are an open and dynamic project leader and experienced from practical work in laboratory setting.


* High level of communication skills in Swedish and English written and verbal
* Laboratory work experience
* Experience in construction or construction industry
* Cement, concrete chemistry expertise is desirable
* Project leadership is desirable

 

This recruitment is handled by Saint-Gobain in cooperation with Kandidathuset. For further information please contact, Sebastian Törnquist by email sebastian.tornquist@kandidathuset.se