Plastics Engineer

Isovolta Inc., a world supplier of aircraft and rail interior materials, located just North of Eugene Oregon, with sister companies in Vienna Austria and Kassel Germany, is seeking a qualified Plastics Engineer to perform the following duties:

General Job Description:

While working within office, laboratory, and production settings: this position is responsible for: operation of lab scale plastics mixing and extrusion equipment; plastic compound raw material evaluation; plastic compound formulation, development, specification, qualification, and implementation; plastic film, sheet, and laminate material development, specification, qualification, and implementation, sometimes within the ISO design and development process; datasheet preparation; product planning review; supporting Process Engineering, Operations, Production, Sales, Customers, Suppliers, QA, and Material Review Board product issues; and etcetera.

Job Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain a Brabender extrusion lab including a torque rheometer, measuring mixer, twin co-rotating extruder with a film die, 10-liter high intensity mixer, and etcetera.
• Optimize and maintain existing compound formulas, and develop new formulas with custom colors, enhanced properties, and new extruded products, and etcetera.
• Characterize materials and products using torque rheology, thermal analysis, mechanical, and etcetera testing.
• Oversee and support outside compounding and extrusion of materials, and inside production of products.
• Participate on a team of inside and outside engineers to design, build, and support in-house mixing, extrusion, lamination and embossing processes.

Specific Job Skills:

• Good interpersonal communication, customer service, and time management skills are essential.
• Ability to read, write and understand English required.
• Must demonstrate advanced math, material, chemical, mechanical, analytical skills.
• Ability to operate a personal computer and various applications (MS Office) for word processing, spreadsheets, email, and etceteras.
• Physical ability to hear, to see, to engage in repetitive motion of hands and wrists, some lateral movement of body, some bending, twisting and climbing stairs, standing/walking 70% and sitting 30% of the working day.
• Occasionally lift up to 60 pounds independently.

Education and/or Experience:

• Plastics Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, or Polymer Engineering with instruction on plastic extrusion and related materials, processes, equipment, and testing; Plastic Compound Formulation, Plastic Processing Including Mixing, Extrusion, Calendering and etcetera; and Plastic Product Development.

Isovolta Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:

• Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, AFLAC, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401(k) retirement plan, Direct deposit, Employee-planned events