{"id":6006,"date":"2012-06-20T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:03:56","slug":"material-development-engineer-job-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/material-development-engineer-job-vacancy.html","title":{"rendered":"Material Development Engineer Job Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bsc \/ B. Tech Chemical Engineering with Polymer science.
\n3 years technical experience including thermoplastic compounds formulations and testing in flexible PVC and polyethylene essential.
\n2 years cable manufacturing experience<\/p>\n
Create and maintain material purchasing and delivery specification to reflect the most current specification<\/p>\n
Evaluate and secure approvals and release of raw materials (existing and new materials)<\/p>\n
Development of most cot efficient thermoplastic and cross-linkable cable insulation, bedding and sheathing materials in full compliance with cable specification<\/p>\n
Lead cost minimization and performance enhancement projects of cable compounds and other cable materials<\/p>\n
Manage materials development laboratory<\/p>\n
Establish and maintain close technical relationship with materials and service suppliers<\/p>\n
Perform supplier audits (both existing and potential suppliers)<\/p>\n
Provide in-house technical expertise and opinion on materials used in the manufacture and application of cables. This may include customer complaints<\/p>\n
Create and maintain internal procedures and specifications for specialized non routine testing of cable materials<\/p>\n
Analyze competitor products for benchmarking purposes<\/p>\n
Development of most cost efficient thermoplastic and cross-linked cable compounds, evaluation and release of cable materials, creation and maintenance of materials purchasing specification.<\/p>\n
Please send cv to dinae@rivonirecruitment.co.za<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bsc \/ B. Tech Chemical Engineering with Polymer science. 3 years technical experience including thermoplastic compounds formulations and testing in flexible PVC and polyethylene essential. 2 years cable manufacturing experience…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n