R&D and Product Support Specialist, Consumables

Lincoln Electric Türkiye

R&D SPECIALIST

QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Profile

New Product Development: Participate/manage new product development projects, collaborating with sales and marketing teams. Conducting experiments/trials. Establishing production specifications, packaging, labeling, and other functional materials. Validating new products performance through customer visits.

Product Support: Providing technical information to customers regarding welding processes and related consumables to ensure proper product usage.

Weld Test Lab Customer Test Requests: Managing and conducting mechanical and chemical tests as per welding industry standards to meet customer requirements.

Weld Test Lab Annual Product Approvals: Overseeing annual product approvals for welding consumables to ensure compliance with regulations.

Industry Technology Monitoring: Following up on sectoral developments, new technologies, and conducting competitor benchmarking.

Process Improvement: Contributing to production quality improvement projects including Lean 6 Sigma initiatives.

Raw Material Studies: Evaluating new suppliers, alternative raw materials and conducting production trials validate, supplier improvement for cost-saving opportunities.

R&D Collaboration: Collaborating with universities/labs for fundamental research studies.

Qualifications

• Having a bachelor's degree from universities engineering such as Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering, master's degree has a significant advantage. Welding Engineering certificate is also valuable.

• Knowledge or willingness to learn mechanical testing of materials, material characterization techniques (SEM, XRD), applied metallography, welding technology and welding consumables.

• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
  

• Proficiency in MS Office applications is required, and familiarity or willingness to learn Minitab. 

• Good communication skills, teamwork, analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities.
  

• Living/willing to live in Istanbul Anatolian Side, Gebze, or Kocaeli.