With your experience in new products development and in natural polymers you will be a key player in developing next-generation solutions that push the boundaries of our materials. You will collaborate closely with our R&D, engineering and sales teams to transform innovative concepts into practical, market-ready technologies. Your role will involve analysing performance metrics, conducting comprehensive testing, and providing strategic insights to expand our material applications. By bridging technical knowledge with customer needs, you will help our organization develop materials that offer superior performance and sustainable solutions for complex industrial challenges. As part of your tasksYou develop processing concepts, lead laboratory tests in our facilities, and communicate technical and project-related information to internal and external stakeholdersYou define and develop, as well as validate, innovative testing strategies and ensure optimum testability as part of product developmentYou characterize materials and products, and perform application tests in lab scaleContinuously expand the understanding of state-of-the-art technologies and processes for specific productsYou lead production tests in collaboration with our partners for the application of traceless materials on their machinesYou help us gain an even deeper understanding of our materials as they are used in converting machines to understand their potential for optimizationYou identify opportunities to optimize our material properties while maintaining their unique, holistic sustainabilityYou share your knowledge about the processing of our material and ideas on how to improve the production with our production and quality teams You will spend your working days in an innovative work environment with start-up flair in our laboratory in Buchholz i.d.N., south of Hamburg.