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Ref: GP831-23
Job description / Role
About the Position:
• Provision of laboratory polymer testing expertise to the R&D department’s product development and research projects and activities.
• Meet the testing requirements of internal and fee-paying external customers.
• Organisation, supervision, and training of technicians to deliver reliable test data.
Requirements
Major Duties/ Responsibilities:
• Advising technical project leaders on appropriate testing work in support of projects.
• To develop the department’s laboratory expertise in polymer product testing.
• To set up testing capability to ASTM, ISO, IEC, and internal testing standards.
• To implement and maintain the working practices of ISO 17025 and 9001.
• To provide practical product and application support for the development of polymer products in foams, sheets, films, compounds, injection mouldings, profile extrusions, fibres, wire and cable, footwear, and packaging applications.
• To provide expertise in testing for mechanical, hydrolysis resistance, weathering, ageing, transport properties, flame retardancy, electrical, optical, thermal properties, adhesion, etc. properties that are relevant to polymer applications.
• To provide interpretation of polymer phenomena in products such as crystallization, orientation, residual stresses, damping, creep, fatigue, frozen in stress, ESCR, etc.
• To provide scientific understanding of the processing - structure – property relationships of polymer products.
• To confer knowledge on polymer materials including LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, POE, PP, EVA, PU, and PBT grades.
About the Candidate:
• Bachelors’ degree in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, or Engineering.
• 15 years industrial experience in polymer product development and testing.
• Has worked in industrial R&D, commercial service laboratory, technical consultancy, or customer technical service roles.
• Experienced in the working practices of ISO 17025 and 9001.
• Has worked in testing of polymer products and applications.
• Understands physics of polymer materials.
About the Company
Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) is a Saudi joint stock company owned jointly by private sector investors from Saudi Arabia and GCC countries. The company was established on 22/12/1999, with a total capital of SR 500 milion (currently SR 1.5 billion).
Sipchem actively invests in petrochemical and chemical industries, both basic and intermediate to produce chemicals used to manufacture a multitude of products that improve the lives of people worldwide.
Through its affiliates, International Methanol Company (IMC) and Gulf Advanced Chemical Industries Company (GACIC), Sipchem produces one million mtpa of methanol and 75 thousand mtpa of butanediol.
For the attainment of sustainable growth according to a special strategy that links the company's present with its future, Sipchem continuously explores the prospects of development and renovation to facilitate the process of desired growth and expansion. In the second half of 2006, Sipchem started construction of Acetyl Complex which consists of Acetic Acid plant (460 thousand mtpa), Vinyl Acetate Monomer plant (330 thousand mtpa) and Carbon Monoxide plant (345 thousand mtpa). Commercial operation of these plants is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2009. The launch of these additional facilities demonstrates the company's aggressive expansion program, which aims to make it one of the largest, fully-integrated, petrochemical complexes in the Middle East, owned and operated by the private sector.
In conducting its activities, Sipchem maintains strict adherence to the highest product quality standard without compromising its commitment to the environment and the safety of its employees and the community.