Product Development and Application Engineer, Refined Fibre Business and B2B

Job Description
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: You analyse the needs of customers, users and application areas in order to define functional product specifications.
• Product development: You drive the technical development of the existing product portfolio and work closely with research institutes and manufacturers of packaging production machinery.
• Technical support: You provide ongoing support for the use of our products and take care of solving technical problems – including updates and patches.
• Documentation: You coordinate the creation and further development of product data sheets and technical sales arguments for use in marketing materials.
• Performance optimisation: You monitor the performance of our applications and implement continuous improvements. You translate feedback on product quality and performance into technical specifications and coordinate these with the production plants.
• Knowledge transfer: You train sales teams, customers and end users in the use of WEPA products.
• Teamwork: You will work closely with the fibre technology and quality assurance departments to meet the requirements of current and future applications.
• Innovation: You have strong innovative skills and a proven track record in developing new applications for materials.
• Market and business development: You are able to translate technical insights into market-relevant solutions. You work closely with sales, marketing and customers to identify new, profitable areas of application for DIP and JR.

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.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

About Us
The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With around 4.300 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We Consistently Invest In The Qualification Of Our Employees, Point Out Individual Career And Development Opportunities And Promote Them. We Do This Because We Are Convinced Of One Thing

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.