Senior Technologist, Growth Markets R&D

Houston
15115 Park Row
Suite 160
Houston, TX 77084, USA

The Innovation team must have a highly effective and productive R&D pipeline. Satisfying customer demands/expectations and delivering consistent profitable growth for Messer depends on it. The Senior Technologist, R&D plays an essential role in delivering on this responsibility.

The Senior Technologist, R&D will be the Messer expert in growth market segments including aerospace and helium, and other emerging applications. The Senior Technologist, R&D is responsible for leading, supporting and managing highly complex new product development projects from initial concept through development and verification/validation testing and into commercialization. They will lead cross functional teams and utilize project management tools, techniques, and experience to drive product development and engineering activities and execute to expected company timelines, budgets, and quality.

The Senior Technologist, R&D will also be responsible for cutting-edge, blue-sky research initiatives. These could include significant differentiating technologies across all segments.

The Senior Technologist, R&D is responsible for establishing and driving a highly effective ideation process, working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure a robust and steady stream of new development ideas/concepts.

Why Messer?

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role.

Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

The principal responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Serve as the Messer technical expert in core fundamentals across growth market segments and other core segments where their expertise is required.
• Lead and consult on highly technical, blue-sky R&D projects.
• Represent Messer as a technology leader through participation in technical conferences and research papers.
• Establish and coordinate R&D and JD activities with universities and other technical 3 rd
• Support the broader Messer organization on select technologies.
• Serve as a mentor to engineers and researchers across the Messer Organization.
• Coordinate the design and execution of cross-functional project plans for application development projects.
• Lead team meetings and ensure that clear actions and decisions are documented, communicated, and committed to, enabling timeline achievement.
• Deliver high-quality execution and on-time achievement of cost, schedule, and performance goals of large scale and complex development projects.
• Maintain frequent communication with the cross-functional project team members and key internal stakeholders so that all parties are aware of current project status, issues, contingencies, and milestones.
• Track realized performance, adjust forecasts and plans to align with shifting priorities and report to management.
• Interface with internal and external customers
• Build strong working relationships across departments with key stakeholders and management to ensure transparency and to facilitate communication.
• Establish and lead a consistent and effective ideation process that assimilates both internal and external ideas into a prioritized and actionable pool or future development projects.
• Project management – responsible for managing highly technical and / or capex intensive development projects with up to 2 - 5 $ M budget.
• Lead transfer of knowledge related to all technologies across all segments.
• Gather ideas for new applications/products, evaluate feasibility and initiation of new projects.
• Safeguard new ideas via patent applications.
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