Product Development and Application Engineer, Refined Fibre Business and B2B

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application

Your Tasks:

• Requirements analysis: Understanding and analysing customer needs, user requirements and areas of application to define functional product specifications
• Product development: Technical development of the existing product portfolio through close cooperation with research institutes and manufacturers of packaging production machinery
• Technical support: Providing ongoing support for the use of our products as well as solving technical problems, including providing updates and patches
• Documentation: Creation and further development of product data sheets as well as technical sales propositions for use in marketing documents, including coordination of the involved processes
• Performance optimisation: Monitoring application performance and implementing continuous improvements, as well as translating feedback on product quality and performance into technical specifications and coordinating these with the production plants
• Knowledge transfer: Training sales, customers and end users in the use of WEPA products.
• Collaboration: Close coordination with the fibre technology and quality assurance teams to meet the requirements of current and future applications
• Innovation: Contributing strong innovative drive and proven success in the development of new material applications

Your Profile:

• Qualifications: You have a degree in paper or fibre technology, packaging technology, process engineering or a comparable qualification.
• Experience and Know-how:
  • You have experience in the areas of pulp/paper, fibre moulded packaging and/or functional barrier coatings for paper and cardboard. 
  • You have knowledge of product development, application technology or a comparable technical function. Analytical thinking, problem-solving skills and practical implementation are among your strengths. 
  • You have a sound chemical understanding of polymers, binders and coatings.
• Languages: You have a very good command of written and spoken English – knowledge of German and French is an advantage.
• Personality: You are enthusiastic about innovative product ideas and customer-oriented solutions. You are a strong communicator and excel at interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Working: You work in a structured, solution-oriented manner and show a high degree of initiative. You can communicate complex topics in an understandable way and implement them in a practical manner.

Your Benefits:

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.