Project Manager Plastics Applications Industry & Consumer
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Could you turn your expertise in plastics and injection moulding into innovative customer solutions?
Walker Lovell is recruiting a Project Manager - Plastics Applications for an international plastics manufacturer, supporting customer projects across industrial and consumer markets.
You’ll help customers choose the right engineering plastics for their components and provide technical support with injection moulding. Through practical trials and project management, you’ll solve technical challenges and help customers find new ways to use the company’s plastics in their products.
The role:
• Manage customer technical projects to develop new uses for engineering plastics across industrial and consumer markets.
• Recommend suitable engineering plastic resins based on component design, performance requirements and processing needs.
• Provide customers and sales teams with technical advice on material selection, component performance and injection moulding.
• Conduct trials and sampling in the technical centre and at customer sites.
• Assess technical feasibility, analyse materials and components, and prepare cost calculations.
• Collaborate with R&D, production, materials analysis, marketing and sales to develop solutions and resolve technical challenges.
• Monitor market trends, identify new uses for the company’s materials, and deliver technical presentations and internal training.
What we’re looking for:
• A degree in plastics engineering, materials engineering or mechanical engineering.
• Experience in injection moulding technology and the design of technical plastic components.
• A proactive, commercially minded approach, with the confidence to make decisions and drive projects forward.
• Curiosity, initiative and a commitment to developing your technical expertise.
• Good written and spoken English.
What’s on offer?
A role with clear responsibility, varied technical projects and opportunities for professional development within a collaborative working environment.
You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours, convenient public transport links, on-site parking, a competitive salary and attractive pension provision.
Interested in finding out more?
Contact Natalie Worsley at Walker Lovell for a confidential discussion:
📞 +44 161 515 6343
Alternatively, apply directly.