R&D Engineer Consumer Tread Compounds

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Hybrid

Type of contract:
Open-ended/permanent

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Full time

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ROMA, IT

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Tread compound development

About the role

We are looking for a position as an R&D Engineer for Tread Compound Development team, within MID – Material Innovation and Development organization.

The R&D engineer will lead efforts to develop and validate new compounds for Bridgestone consumer and commercial products, in line with Product Performance Road Map and with Corporate Sustainability Roadmap.

Specifically, she/he will join the team responsible for all casing compound line‑up in Consumer and Commercial area from ideation up to first industrial scale production of the compound, and to provide technical support to BSEMEA operations.

Job purpose

In this position, she/he will be responsible to manage new Tread compound development programs realizing virtual and physical tire prototypes for performances assessment, leading FMEA preparation and definition/execution of validation plan, promote and support new lab testing procedures and release technologies to next gate for introduction in production plants.

A t same time she/he will contribute to shape the technology and process streams needed for future technology roadmap in close collaboration with MID specialists, Raw material team, Material Lab team and Academia.

Also, she/he will support manufacturing operations by contributing to compound processability and/or performance improvement whenever required.

Responsibilities:

• To contribute to Tread technical roadmap of Consumer domain through compound design and validation activities as per project assignments.
• To execute and secure risk analysis for application on tire for the assigned tread compound development projects.
• Organization and management of Design Review meetings/presentations to involved stakeholders/ and to management.
• Support and trigger discussion on new technology needs and characterization methodologies to Raw Materials, Material Lab, Tread and casing Technology validation teams.
• To contribute to Bridgestone Sustainability roadmap realization.
• To contribute to digital mindset and digital designing approach spreading.
• To identify and support implementation of efficiency opportunities in Way of Working and processes.
• To participate in identifying and launching innovation projects within MID and more in general in R&D.
• Work effectively with R&D researchers, technicians and management of Bridgestone Technical Center Europe, actively taking part to R&D cross‑functional teams.
• Collaborate with Bridgestone Corporate Functions, Bridgestone America and Bridgestone Japan, Bridgestone EMIA manufacturing plants.
• Work and interact with Bridgestone external partners such as academia, research institutes and lab equipment providers.

Qualifications and Experience required:

Education:

• PhD in materials and/or polymers science is highly appreciated.

Experience:

• Proven experience at least on one of the following fields: polymers science and technology, rubber chemicals, filler technology development in tire industry, rubber goods.
• Tread and/or casing compound or material development experience within tyre/rubber industry is highly appreciated.

Technical skills:

• Analytical skill, Logic Thinking and strong mechanism understanding mindset.
• Digital mindset: solid knowledge of MS Office package and preferably knowledge of digital software as Minitab, Matlab, Python.
• Experience with simulation tools in the…