Technical Manager

Lead technical activities for plastic film extrusion operations, including process optimization, product development, quality improvement, equipment reliability, and maintenance team management. Ensure efficient production of high-quality product while maintaining safety, productivity, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities include monitoring and optimizing processes, establishing machine settings and parameters, improving quality and output, reducing scrap and material waste, analyzing production data and implementing corrective actions, supporting start-up/shutdown/process stabilization, leading and developing technicians, providing technical support to production, maintenance, and quality teams, developing SOPs and best practices, leading product development and qualification, optimizing formulations for performance and cost, supporting sales with technical expertise, handling technical customer complaints, ensuring compliance with quality standards and safety requirements, and driving Lean/Six Sigma/continuous improvement initiatives. Promote safe handling of materials and participate in risk assessments and safety improvements. Qualifications highlight a blend of engineering acumen, leadership experience, and hands-on extrusion/automation know-how.