Manager - Technical Services (Application Technology)

Job Title : Manager - Technical Services (Application Technology)
Reporting to : Membranes Head Asia-Pacific
Entity : Evonik India
Work Location : Thane

Purpose of the Position :

• The incumbent will play a key role in establishing close technical relation with end user companies in Biogas, Oil & gas, Fertilizers, Refinery – petrochemicals, process gas and engineering companies. 

• The incumbent will play a crucial role in increasing business opportunities in his/her region of responsibility in close cooperation with the Technical Center in Asia and Europe to provide technical support for High performance polymers key customers in India region.

• The incumbent will play a key role in implementing the optimization of the existing processes and the development of new process technology concepts and products as part of process development and in line with the assigned projects across the company for national and international customers/partners under realization of optimal profitability, focus on safety, environmental protection and consideration of time schedules and budgets.

• Planning, initiation, management, and execution of projects with mid-range investment volumes and/or mid-range complexity levels

• The incumbent will support and make sure that all plants using Evonik Membranes in India region are operating and achieving performances in-line with the high quality standard of Evonik membranes.

Key Responsibilities :

• Maintain and expand close technical relations with Biogas OEMs, Natural gas OEMs, Process gas OEMs in India.

• Technical Training of OEMs, support during design phase, construction, commissioning, start-up and troubleshooting.

• Capable of conducting on-site trials - commissioning and troubleshooting at customers place on behalf of the principal incl. conduction/organization of gas analysis, data collection and evaluation (insurance of high-quality process data).

• Initiate application development activity across value chain - Provide in depth knowledge of new applications and technologies.

• Independent planning, management, and documentation of projects, starting from the project initiation, followed by the project draft and the project execution in coordination with the client.

• Technical marketing - regular visits to key OEMs and end user companies. Provides technical and product training to end customers and OEMs.

• Analyze and Quantify business opportunities at OEMs. Prepare and maintain opportunity management and follow up opportunity till it is converted to sales.

Education, Certification and/or relevant experience required.

• Chemical or Mechanical Engineer with minimum 5 years of relevant work experience.

• Successfully completed studies in the field of process technology, chemical engineering or similar sciences (e.g polymer technology, membrane technology, etc.

Additional skills and abilities required for this position.

• Well versed to MS Office

• Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken 

• Committed and loyal team member, which represents high self-motivation, flexibility and creativity 

Technical Knowledge (E.g. specialized knowledge required to perform all the required tasks) 

• Ideally previous work experience in the renewable energy/petrochemical/specialty chemical industries (2-5 years)

Your Application
 

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