R&D Manager Cellulosic Fire Protection – Support in Scunthorpe

We have the pleasure to announce a full-time position is available as R&D Manager – Cellulosic Fire Protection Support. The role involves managing SteelMaster support functions and the chemists working in those functions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in line with Leadership Expectations and tools to develop, coach and guide its members to ensure a workforce which is competent, engaged and enabled to meet Jotun’s current and future needs.
• Manage the development and maintenance of the competence within the team as well as information handling, knowledge/innovation management use and further development of relevant tools and systems.
• Manage PinS system for SteelMaster products.
• Demonstrate effective prioritisation in collaboration with category managers.
• Demonstrate that effective planning ahead is occurring for any external tests that are to occur.
• Manage Raw Material alternatives with group and local purchasing.
• Manage customer meetings and events in the lab.
• Head larger PinS projects, and through planning, co-ordination and follow-up, make sure that the requested goals and required effect are reached within the planned time- and budgetary frames.
• Participate actively in making the R&D Plan for the specialist area/function by collecting ideas, reading literature, following the changes in SHE-legislation and contribute with ideas to maximize the output from the resources available.
• Provide relevant information and give advice to the other laboratories and departments in Jotun within the areas covered by the position.

This is a local contract and based in Jotun’s Fire Protection Lab in Flixborough, UK.

What We Are Looking For And What We Offer:

• We invite applications from candidates with a degree level education in a scientific or process subject.
• Experience of working in R&D with coatings.
• Experience with Intumescent Coatings is preferable.
• Candidates should preferably have experience of managing a team of R&D specialists.
• All candidates are expected to have excellent English skills – both spoken and written, and knowledge about the use of MS Office 365 and Teams/Sharepoint is an advantage.

What We Offer:

• A friendly and supportive culture!
• Jotun is a large and dynamic global community present in over 100 countries.
• At Jotun we are part of a caring global family, and we are proud of our informal work environment with few hierarchies.
• We are always striving to live our values: Loyalty, Care, Respect, and Boldness.
• There are extensive opportunities for professional and personal development in Jotun, both through on-the-job training and Jotun Academy.
• At Jotun we want to develop long-term relationships with our employees, and we focus on nurturing people in building their career with us.
• Our pension and insurance schemes are highly competitive, as are our other benefits such as in-house gym, cafeteria, and free allowances on our products.
• A professional and supportive work environment with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation is important to us.
• Our story is one of innovating and reinventing processes and concepts with the purpose of creating better and more sustainable products that will have a positive impact in the world.
• We offer exciting challenges in a growing company with excellent financial results.
• We are growing steadily and the financial strength this gives us allows us to invest in research and development to create new innovative products and to invest in people and in the support of local communities.