Staff Engineer Compounder Motorcycle

Location: FR - MONTLUCON
Goodyear Talent Acquisition Representative: Adeline Dassot

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**Join our teams in Montluçon**:
Within the EMEA division, the Goodyear Montluçon plant, located in the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region, specialises in the manufacture of motorbike tyres. Geographically based less than 4 hours' drive from major French cities, the Montluçon production site occupies a central position and has played an important economic role for the town for almost a century.

With its integrated research and development centre, innovative manufacturing processes and committed, forward-looking team of professionals, Goodyear Montluçon's vocation is to supply high-performance, premium-quality products. The plant is currently undergoing a transformation and modernisation project with a view to becoming a centre of excellence in the manufacture of motorbike tyres with high technical added value.We develop and produce TT competition tyres on site (Le Mans/ MOTO 2 Championship / EWC endurance), and develop and supply Goodyear CAR Race competition compounds.

Get your CV readyIf you want to join this stimulating and fulfilling adventure, this could be the opportunity for you

The plant is looking for a Compounder EMEA Motorcycle Road and race

Contract: permanent contract, full-time.

The Compounder EMEA motorcycle road and race is located in Montlucon and provides material solutions to the motorcycle tire product development team.

The Compounder EMEA motorcycle road and race primary purposes are;
- own technical knowledge around Compound Development, crown and casing both. This includes basic knowledge of motorcycle related reinforcement components and intra functional interaction
- execute Compound and Reinforcing Materials Development projects with cross-functional teams to deliver new technologies and capabilities supporting future Global Product and Technology development needs.
- ensure support for Motor Cycle Product Development where required to deliver to the global / regional businesses (i.e. material benchmarking, recommendations for compound choices, root cause analysis on compound related items - liaising with APM and GMS metrology labs, liaise with GMS GRT on treatment related items).
- ensure support for tire plants to deliver to the global / regional business (i.e. business continuity, plant support request, MDPO, complexity management, industrialization of compounds and reinforcing materials)

Primary Duties and responsabilities:
**Technology Development**: Develop new compound formulations and/or tune existing formulations and support Quality with industrialization along with EMEA Product Development road map for optimal performance (tire performance/ manufacturing performance) while considering cost and environment. For technology development follow Global Technology GIR process. Leverage virtual development tools (modeling and (semi)empiric), design and execute/ interpret lab studies. Assist plant trials as required, prepare technical content and execute technical reviews (RMM/ GMS Friday Tech Forum FTF/ GIR gate& stakeholder reviews). Interact with GMS related councils (raw material councils, compound councils, processing councils).

**Plant Support**: leverage compounding and processing expertise to assist plants and product development team in case of business continuity, plant support request, MDPO, complexity management. This include material testing, trial execution and documentation and preparation of changes in compound formulations, specifications including execution of release documentation.

**Functional**: Create/change/maintain functional guidelines such as GMDM and compound line up (crown and casing) in GTDM, create and update WIKI pages, share knowledge using KMO best practices, stay up to date on external knowledge (publications, patents, scientific literature), participat