Business Leadership Rotational Program - Manufacturing Plastics

About Americhem:

Americhem is a globally recognized designer and manufacturer of custom color masterbatch, functional additives, engineered compounds, and performance technologies. Our business is built around delivering Performance, Solutions, and Trust through close collaboration with customers seeking to optimize their polymer products. All of the company's products are backed by complete technical support that ensures quality, reliability, and value. Americhem operates 10 manufacturing plants and maintains sales offices throughout the world. Central research and development facilities and headquarters are located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio with plants in Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina.

Business Leadership Rotational Program Overview:

Americhem's Business Leadership Rotational Program is designed to create an opportunity for early in career professionals to acquire meaningful work experience that is in alignment with their career aspirations. Professionals in the program will actively contribute to their team's success, learn about the Americhem company and culture and obtain new skills through strategic learning opportunities and professional assignments.

Selected participants will complete a two year program with 8 month rotations in Product Management, Design and Product Development, and Commercial Sales/Technical Service. After two years, at the successful conclusion, the selected participant will emerge from the program and will be deployed into a manufacturing role based upon demonstrated skills and preferences with the needs of the organization. This rotational program will consist of formal and informal skill development, networking, and internal & external customer interface. Ultimately the program participant will gain exposure and experience around product development, product management, and commercial sales which provide advantages in the program participant progression within the Americhem organization. Realistic career aspirations could include Plant leadership, Process Engineering, Quality Management, and Continuous Improvement as a result of continued high performance and network development.

About The Rotations

Rotation: Design & Product Development

The position is designed to deliver and lead projects in the area of Design & Product Development.

Experience acquired:

• Hands on exposure in quality testing, color manipulation, physical testing, and sample preparation.

• Exposure to formulations that leads to palette development projects.

• Experience a plant trial activity and process.

• Exposure to Regulatory and Raw Materials Sciences & SCM activities.

• Exposure to Analytical lab activities.

• Exposure to Six Sigma methodologies- DFSS.

• Meet and exceed sales targets

• Travel: up to 25% domestic

Rotation: Product Management

The position is designed to deliver and lead project in the area of Product Management.

Experience acquired:

• Exposure to operational management:

• Lead market intelligence gathering.

• Maintain formula prices.

• Provide market guidance to sales.

• Exposure to strategic product decisions:

• Manage asset utilization.

• Inform product portfolio decisions.

• Inform long term asset strategy.

• Business compliance and risk management.

Rotation: Commercial Sales & Technical Service

The position is designed to deliver and lead project in the area of Commercial Sales & Technical Service

Experience acquired:

• Learn and apply the sales process with a group of customers in one commercial segment:

• Build relationships.

• Questioning development.

• Develop economic value estimates.

• Recommend solutions.

• Deliver a business review to achieve account Growth.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any related Sciences majors -Chemical Engineering a plus- with a minimum 3.0 GPA

• Masters in Polymer Engineering a plus

• Ability and desire to travel (up to 25% domestic and international travel required)

• Must be able to relocate at the end of the last rotation.

Skills Requirements

• Eager to learn and grow

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (includes active listening)

• Ability to build productive relationships

• Good presentation skills

• Results-oriented

• Project management and leadership

• Solid polymers technical background and understanding

• Ability to understand and follow procedures and quality systems

• Attention to detail and analysis skills.