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At Ontex, we are making everyday life easier across generations. Worldwide our 5,500 colleagues are taking pride in their work, guided by our values – Passion, Reliability, Integrity, Drive and Everyone. Every day they are developing, producing, and distributing affordable and sustainable baby, woman and adult personal care products. As a leading international provider of personal hygiene solutions for retailer brands and healthcare partners, founded in Belgium in 1979 and listed on Euronext Brussels, we believe that innovation should be accessible to everyone. As we continue being 'Here for you’, we’re looking for a Product Developer Baby Pants to join our R&D team.
Job Responsibility:
Coordinate and contribute to the development, validation, and implementation of product, raw material, and packaging initiatives within the Baby Pants category
Ensure execution of innovation and/or design-to-value projects across North America manufacturing locations (Tijuana, Mexico and Stokesdale, NC), aligned with Innovation Process and FTR principles
Deliver key outputs including product and raw material specifications, BOMs, quality control plans, safety documentation, and validation reports
Lead and coordinate trial runs, laboratory testing, and consumer panel evaluations to validate new concepts and developments
Build knowledge and maintain specifications for new and existing raw materials, ensuring alignment with supplier validation processes, Quality standards, and sustainability objectives
Engage with cross-functional and international teams (Marketing, Sales, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing) to translate strategic plans into actionable product developments
Support cost-saving initiatives under the Ontex Design-to-Value program and contribute to the company’s sustainability strategy
Participate in the Innovation process (Stage Gate), design and development and FTR processes, while supporting the creation of master specifications for new products, including technical drawings, quality recommendations, CTQs, Cpks, and safety files
Provide input to CAPEX requirements and collaborate with legal counsel to assess patent landscapes, safeguard intellectual property, and ensure freedom to operate
Build product-level market intelligence through competitive benchmarking and reverse engineering exercises
Gather, evaluate, and develop ideas for new concepts, features, materials, packaging, and machine processes
Support the design and prototyping of mockups to accelerate product innovation and validation
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or a related field
5 years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or a related research and development occupation developing personal hygiene products
5 years of experience in each of the following: Working in research and development
Serving in an industrial production environment
Working with disposable absorbent products, raw materials, and production processes
Developing and reviewing specifications including designs, patents, test methods and management of specification agreements
Creating mechanical drawings for hygienic products
Developing physical prototypes based on mechanical drawings to understand physical characteristics and technical feasibility of product design and development
Producing technical reports outlining materials required for new prototypes
Navigating complex IP constraints to ensure freedom to operate and/or designing around existing patents to enable market access managing risks
Implementing new products in a manufacturing setting, including scale up and validation of products and processes