Wind R

**Description**

The Wind R&D Engineer will be part of the Fabrics & Specialty Product leadership group based in the Chambery Science and Technology (S&T) Center.

The job holder will manage projects relative to Wind market and to develop the science around reinforcement used for the wind industry, têxtile functionalizing, thermoplastic and thermoset resin.

His/Her capability will be to understand:

- The composites technologies relatives to wind reinforcement product, especially infusion
- The composites technologies relative to preforming process.
- The têxtiles technologies relative to functionalizing
- Glass Fiber reinforcement

This position reports to the Wind S&T Leader and is located in Chambery, with some international travels.

Responsibilities, Scope and Contributions

**Responsibility 1: Live the Safety Stand of Owens Corning and adhere to the safety responsibilities**

**THE JOB HOLDER**:

- Embrace company policies and procedures for documenting hazards, near misses and incidents
- Makes safety a priority for him/herself and for his/her colleagues
- Participates in the writing and updating of working documents (SOP, single documents, STOP sheet, MOC, etc...)
- Participates actively in service and site safety actions (BBS/SAR program, safety meetings, etc.)
- Proposes and implements actions aimed at improving the safety of workstations on a daily basis

**Metrics**:

- Safety metrics: BBS, RIR, First Aids, Near Misses, SAFE and Critical 6
- Up to date SOP and job hazard analysis
- Yearly prevention action plan defined and executed (PAP)

**Responsibility 2: Lead key projects**
- Knowledge of effective project management system; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of resources to achieve project objectives.
- Capability to lead projects relative to Wind market in a multi-disciplinary environment team:

- Lead product and process development, propose idea and solution valuable for our customers
- Lead project ideation, evaluation, prioritization, risk and change management
- Support products and process move to industrialization after development
- Plans and drives the daily project work - organizes and monitors the defined scope and requirements
- Effectively manages Relationships & Communication with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to communicate on progress & hurdles & Risks, influence decision making and deliver on commitments.
- Customer driven:

- Focus on obtaining results and have impact on decision and project
- Ability to create intimacy with customer and support new product evaluation with end users
- Implement testing method, practical work, enabling understanding of product performance, faster development, and value quantification.
- Embrace curiosity to learn new concepts, processes and tools applicable to the needs of the organization.

**Metrics**:

- # of product/testing method developed
- # IP protection (patent, trade secrets )
- Technical reports issued for all product development, new testing equipment implementation

**Responsibility 3: Participate to wind innovation roadmap and delivering promises**
- Capability to connect internally (GRS Leadership, Fabrics prototyping, Modelisation, Techno-marketing, Strategic Marketing, Product management ,Fabrics Operations, Fabrics process development) and externally with multi-disciplinary teams (Partners, Supliers Customers University)
- Capability to coordinate efforts of multidisciplinary teams and project
- Strategic thinking: understand, support and extend long term view of wind innovation
- Develop and maintain our science knowledge in Fabrics and sustainable Glass solution and in composite

**Metrics**:

- # bibliography, patent survey/analysis

**Responsibility 4: Develop strong technical Interaction with the OC Product leadership group, Fabrics Techno-Marketing group and with Key customers, built and maintain a network of academic and Industry expert**
- Develop interaction with global teams of Innovation, Techno-Marketing, Business and Fabrics Operations group
- Develop collaboration and connection with key University in Europe.
- Technical survey of new technology, networking with key laboratories and academic reasearch
- Participate to Industry project
- Connect to the resin supplier and equipment that used by our customer.
- Connect with customers

**Metrics**:

- # of conference/Technical show
- # of Collaboration with University /supplier and equipment

**Whom I work with**:

- Innovation Group:

- Chemistry group
- Modelization team
- Testing Laboratories group
- Product leadership
- Fabrics Group
- Techno-Marketing group
- Product Management
- Operations
- Supply chain
- Outside Fabrics and Innovation
- Safety Team
- Customer Service
- Strategic Marketing
- EPM team
- Outside OC
- Customer (Technical representative)
- Resin supplier and Equipment supplier
- University

**About Owens Corning**

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer.