Senior Technologist

Castrol is one of the world’s leading lubricant brands, serving customers and consumers in the automotive, marine, industrial and energy sectors. Castrol brands are recognised globally for their premium quality and high performance, shaped by the company’s commitment to innovation and cutting-edge technology. With products sold in more than 150 countries, Castrol has helped keep things moving on roads and racetracks, air, sea, and space for over 125 years.

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Job Description Job Purpose:

The Senior Technologist Technology Deployment liaises with the relevant parties within the AsPac PU or specific country market to provide overall customer technical support, quality assurance support, deploy and help launch new products. The role holder may be required to focus on a specific product area to develop experience and expertise but should also expect to cover different product areas depending on priorities and workload demands. They will work as part of a broader agile team supporting the AsPac region.

Key Accountabilities:

• Engage with sales, marketing and supply chain in the AsPac markets to provide customer support, deploy and help launch new products, provide technical advocacy, quality assurance support and support new business opportunities (including technical input to tenders).
• Deliver technical support to customers to resolve issues, potentially including laboratory work/analysis and interpretation of analytical data and delivery of reports.
• Provide product and application advice and support with basic lubrication training to technical network/sales technical staff as needed.
• Provide input to new product development projects, support and monitor proof of performance/customer approval tests, identify suitable finished goods for purchase.
• Support quality assessments, resolution of local raw material shortages, incident management teams and quality incident investigations.
• Support country Technologist tags to deliver the technical communications for new product launches using global materials, adapting where necessary or creating materials to meet local customers requirements, ensuring that the technical benefits land in an impactful way in the country leadership teams/with customers.
• Provide leadership on the integrity and management of technical data. Support country Technologist tags to ensure that claims are relevant, valid and substantiated for local law and in line with Product Development and Marketing guidance.
• Collect necessary quality data and information from region to analyse, develop and assess for trends and provide input on areas of greatest risk.
• Maintain technical knowledge of products, applications and competitor information as applicable to responsibilities.
• Coach and mentor less experienced members of the team and share technical knowledge with wider technical community.

Requirements:

• University degree in scientific field such as Chemistry or Chemical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Proven broad experience of lubricant development, quality assurance and technology commercialization and deployment (mastery)
• Broad knowledge of Castrol’s products (as applicable to the role) their composition, manufacture, and application
• Demonstrate a collaborative approach to working and networking with subject matter experts
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in digitalization of data and reporting.

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