Job title: Rubber Process Engineer\nJob family: Engineering\nBusiness area: Pulp & Paper Service\nContract location: Gallarate, VA, IT\nLocation type: Office Location / Office-based\nContract type: Permanent\nANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries, and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors as well as for animal feed and biomass pelleting. Other important business segments include automation and service business. The publicly listed technology Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria, and has a staff of approximately 30,000 employees. ANDRITZ operates more than 280 locations in over 40 countries.\nANDRITZ Fabrics and Rolls S.p.A. operates two manufacturing sites in the Varese area: Cardano al Campo and Gallarate, both specializing in roll technologies for the paper and industrial sectors. The Cardano al Campo plant focuses on the production of rubber roll covers, metric spreader rolls, and roll service activities such as regrinding and mechanical servicing. The Gallarate facility is a key hub for rubber technology, manufacturing new rubber roll covers, rubber sleeves, and performing roll services for a wide range of industrial applications. Most importantly, it hosts the company’s rubber compound production, able to generate about 750 tons/year of compounds used internally across European AFR plants.\nAreas of tasks, responsibility, and goals in the organizational area R&D; Materials\n\nComprehensive knowledge in rubber compound formulation and development with focus on application properties of compounds\nContinuous process engineering development and technical adaptation of production processes (compound processing, extrusion, curing cycles), including writing SOPs with focus on ensuring and maintaining production quality stability\nRoll Cover Process technological development and scale up of new and further developed rubber compounds with focus on compound mixing, processing and curing\nActive support in the new and further development or modification of rubber compounds for pulp & paper and other industrial applications with focus on large scale producibility and processability\nMixing and testing of new and further developed rubber compounds\nComprehensive laboratory work in the frame of production quality control and rubber roll cover product / formulation development\nAnalysis of customer roll cover & rubber complaints\nCooperation and collaboration with development and process engineers in the mentioned organizational unit Lectures or presentations at internal and external events\nCollaborate on and create your own new patents\nHandling and coordination rubber related projects\nCoordination of rubber products items for SAP configurations on site (EMEA Team)\nCommunication with Andritz sites globally for hands on/best practice\n\nImportant individual orders/significant powers\n\nRepresent a link between R&D; and production as team player\nActing as a contact person between European production sites\nResponsible and independent process engineering development of production processes\nImplementation, compliance, control, and documentation of quality control\nDirect collaboration with the European development and process engineers in Düren (DE), Gallarate (IT) and Kerava (FI) as well as with external institutes within the framework of agreed projects\nCompliance with project-specific quality, time, and cost specifications\nSupport global product management in specific customer projects from the product idea to implementation in production\nSupport global R&D; projects as agreed and communicate/align activities with global R&D; Material responsible\nUniversity degree in Process Engineering or Chemical Engineering\nRelevant experience in the field of 3-5 years (R&D; or Rubber manufacturing)\n\nCollaboration with other entities\nProduct management, sales, development and specialist departments in the organizational unit, quality assurance, production and production planning, management functions of the European ANDRITZ Fabrics and Rolls organization\nExpectation / requirements of the job holder\n\nHigh customer orientation (internal and external)\nProactive and socially competent personality\nHigh self-motivation, frustration tolerance and results orientation\nAffinity for planning and optimization of production processes\nAnalytical and conceptual thinking as well as a structured approach\nWillingness to travel\nFeeling for the material and its industrial application\n\nRequired competences / additional knowledge\n\nLanguage skills: Fluent in spoken and written Italian and English\n\nWorking hours / remarks\n\nWorking hours and possible home office times in accordance with the latest valid works agreement and regulations of the superior unit\nAll-in regulation according to the employment contract\n\n