R&d Manager

3 months ago

Kitchener, Canada Mitchell Plastics Full time

Mitchell Plastics is an award-winning and growing Company. Our key strength is that we offer our world-wide Automotive customers a single source alternative for all of their interior automotive plastic part needs.

As an Employer, we offer an exciting opportunity for you to be part of our growing "Best In Class" Team in the automotive industry today. We believe that our people are what makes us great and strive to offer our employees opportunities for advancement. Come join our Team, and learn first-hand how you can contribute to our “Innovation Inside”

R&D Manager
Position is on-site in Kitchener, ON

Put yourself in the driver’s seat; imagine where a career here could take you.

Mitchell Plastics is an award-winning and growing company. Our key strength is that we offer our world-wide automotive customers a single-source alternative for all of their interior automotive plastic part needs. We have over 2,800 innovative team members, across 7 manufacturing locations throughout North America, who are dedicated to ensuring our position as a global top-tier automotive interior supplier. As an employer, we offer an exciting opportunity for you to be part of our growing "Best in Class" team. We believe that our team members make us great, and we offer ongoing opportunities for advancement. Our talented team is continually expanding and we are always on the lookout for driven individuals to become a valued part of our success.

Come join our Team, and learn first-hand how you can contribute to our “Innovation Inside”

Mitchell Plastics provides...
- Development and training plans
- Bonus eligibility
- RRSP matching
- Medical, dental, vision plans
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Life Insurance and LTD

**The Role**:

- Responsible for company products and processes and their technical and design competitiveness and innovation
- Search for opportunities for the new products, technologies and manufacturing processes. Provide concepts of new solutions. Create plans for the new products or technologies development. Develop and validate them for implementation readiness
- Develop individual R&D projects and actively support R&D projects of other teams
- Manage R&D activities and resources for the new products and processes development
- Search for opportunities of the company products, technologies and manufacturing processes improvement. Provide concepts for the new proposals and lead those concepts analysis. Support team actively for the selected improvements implementation
- Support design, project, tooling, manufacturing and quality engineers for the product problems identification and analysis. Support engineering team with the solutions concepts and their development until production implementation of those improvements
- Participate in design review meetings for the product design issues detection and their elimination. Support product design development with design evaluations and with recommendations of optimal design solutions
- Continuously develop detailed knowledge and expertise in the current core company products or future products. Share related expertise and experience with respective engineering teams
- Support sales, design and project engineers with the new product concepts and their illustrations
- Promote, encourage and actively support engineering creativity and inventiveness improvement in organization. Develop plan and guide company process for the innovative system implementation into organization. Form a system for stimulating the new ideas creations and process with procedures for innovations evaluations and development
- Benchmarking of vehicles and other products
- Has 5+ years in automotive plastics experience
- Has an Engineering Degree (Mechanical preferred)
- Has a strong understanding of plastics molding & decoration methods
- Has extensive knowledge of and ability to perform broad range of engineering responsibilities associated with R&D project development
- Possesses an excellent work ethic: Highly self-motivated, self-driven, ability to multitask
- Is creative and forward thinking
- Is capable of working simultaneously on multiple projects and in a team environment

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