Assistant Manager, Technical Development, Malaysia & Singapore
BASF
Date: 9 hours ago
City: Petaling Jaya
Contract type: Full time

We are a leading chemical company, with the best teams developing intelligent solutions for our customers, and for a sustainable future.
We connect and develop people with diverse talents all over the world. For you, this means a variety of ways to progress.
Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, orientation, and background. At BASF, careers develop from opportunities.
O
bjectives of the Position
To drive engineering plastics application alongside with the commercial team, providing technical advisory on part design, processing, tooling, and materials to optimize product quality and material processing, while also developing and training colleagues in engineering plastics expertise.
Main Areas Of Responsibilities
Processing:
Material:
Mould/Tooling:
Part Design:
Requirements
We connect and develop people with diverse talents all over the world. For you, this means a variety of ways to progress.
Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, orientation, and background. At BASF, careers develop from opportunities.
O
bjectives of the Position
To drive engineering plastics application alongside with the commercial team, providing technical advisory on part design, processing, tooling, and materials to optimize product quality and material processing, while also developing and training colleagues in engineering plastics expertise.
Main Areas Of Responsibilities
- Provide Technical Advisory through wholistic view covering the area of part design, processing, tooling and material related to achieve quality part output.
Processing:
- Providing process optimization to achieve good parts through on-site trial processing techniques to achieve high-quality parts through on-site trials.
- Oversee efforts in injection moulding processes and support secondary processes in extrusion.
- Advising customer the suitable machine tonnage and screw selection for sustainable production
Material:
- Apply knowledge of material characteristics in relation to application and good understanding of customer requirements translated into material selection.
- Interpret material properties and translate them into applications based on customer requirements, including flammability, mechanical, thermal, electrical, rheological, chemical, and physical properties.
- Bringing up value proposition of various plastic materials (Specialty, Engineering and Commodity Plastics) in relation to application and part design.
Mould/Tooling:
- Recommend Mould/Tooling modification and root cause, to improve moulding and productivity to achieve a broader processing window.
- Tooling/Mould fabrication advice in relation to soft TPU, Glass filled Engrg Plastics and high surface finishing
- Interpret CAE results and guiding customer toward gating design and location for wider processing window.
Part Design:
- Contribute to part design by applying foundational design for manufacturing principles:
- Provide recommendations for part design improvement and effectively communicating insights to customers
- Engage with key customers, contract manufacturers and strategic moulders technical decision-makers for project progress and opportunities through supporting sales organization.
- Support technical marketing on:
- Implementation of Segment Marketing Road Map
- Transferring know-how related to Application and Material to frontlines.
- Collaborate with commercial team on:
- project development to meet targets
- promoting BASF through technical events,
- developing success stories for selected projects,
- addressing customer complaints on technical issues
- Assess project feasibility to determine overall viability of application and part design.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, or Production Engineering, or a diploma with relevant experience in the plastics and/or chemical industry; a major in plastics is a plus.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in the plastics or plastic resin industry, with a preference for candidates with experience in technical service support or similar roles, and experience working with OEMs or contract manufacturers in plastics engineering or injection moulding management.
- Strong knowledge of processing and moulding, with expertise in polymer processing, troubleshooting, tooling design, and auxiliary processing equipment; familiarity with other processing techniques, such as extrusion, is a plus.
- Basic understanding of engineering thermoplastics, specialty plastics, and thermoplastic polyurethane is required, along with hands-on experience.
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