lighting.com

Job Description

The challenge

The jobholder will support the growth of the lighting applications in Europe, more specifically by providing required support to implement innovation strategy for lighting market where application engineering activities are involved. He/she will be the silicone molding expert responsible for transferring Dow Corning innovative lighting solutions to customer trough technology development, prototyping, mold design and process optimization until customer qualification.

He/she will work on customer applications in fields like LED lamp and luminaries’ assembly and secondary optics using injection and extrusion molding techniques collaborating with lighting leaders, molders, mold fabricators, molding machine and equipment suppliers involved in lighting market.

In the role he/she will:

• Create, develop, evaluate & prototype new concept of secondary optics for customer validation and business development ensuring successful integration of Dow Corning innovative solutions in the different customer applications.
• Establish a strong network with molders, equipment suppliers and manage co-operation with internal and external partners.
• Interact with key players along the value chain and establish deep technical understanding of the value of silicone in molding of secondary optics.
• Implement and manage molding capabilities of lighting application lab.
• Generate lab data to share know-how with our key customers and/or generate Intellectual Property.
• Manage troubleshooting related to potential reliability and quality problems.
• Develop technical sales tools and training for other colleagues with customer facing activities.
• Continuously enrich application knowledge.

The jobholder will continuously have customer interactions, hands-on lab work, reporting activities, literature search, presentations to internal/external customers and create technical publications.