Your mission
Lead a R&D & production team to develop a scalable purification process for innovative, sustainable building blocks to be used as feedstock for our novel polyester-based plastics
Develop a strategy to work toward a 100+ kt/a world scale process, with appropriate steps to upscale from kg-lab scale to t-pilot scale, in order to reach a commercial kt-scale process
Validate your strategy and ideas through laboratory-scale experiments to evaluate technologies
Lead development projects with external service providers to create end-to-end processes for purifying complex product mixtures into pure fine chemicals
Define and align input and output streams (chemical and physical properties) and establish product specifications
Collaborate closely with the management team and the upstream and downstream R&D teams
Drive innovation by co-developing and implementing next-generation purification technologies
Prepare technical reports and patent applications
Ensure that SHEQ and sustainability standards are upheld in all laboratory, pilot and production activities; this includes having knowledge of REACH/CLP, LCA, recycling and end-of-life strategies