Technical Manager

What We Offer:

• Flexible medical, dental, and vision plan
• Employee & family assistance program
• RRSP matching program
• Health & Wellness reimbursements
• Product purchase program
• Opportunities to take part in job-related training and development
• Relocation cost (if applicable)

Product Improvement

• Build and maintain the 3‑year papermaking product development roadmap for assigned categories.

• Own trial design, success criteria, and recommendation.

• Author trial charters and experimental plans with success criteria; execute validation runs and oversee sample/test plans.

• Convert consumer and lab results into clear go/no‑go recommendations for product development reviews with Product Management/Quality/Marketing.

• Define Specifications & Critical to Quality attributes and variables for papermaking.

Innovation

• Execute & support Sales/Marketing product innovation initiatives

• Drive changes and develop processes to enhance products / margin

• Lead external trials and evaluations with suppliers and labs (chemistry, fabrics, papermaking, converting, analytical testing)

• Ensure NDA and data‑handling compliance with vendors

• Investigate and implement new technologies

• Influence changes, ideas, and developments

Support

• Provide multi‑site technical support for quality and runnability

• Provide technical support to customers / quality systems

• Provide support for significant operational and quality issues directly at the sites

• Mentor junior engineers

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field (Chemical / Pulp & Paper preferred) or equivalent experience
• 10–15 years in tissue/towel papermaking with TAD technology; strong trial/experimental design background; basic to intermediate converting knowledge or exposure 
• R&D, Product Development, Quality experience
• Thorough papermaking process knowledge (TAD technology an asset)
• Understanding and applying new concepts and processes
• Ability to manage multiple activities with competing deadlines
• Experimental design, statistics, data interpretation & visualization
• Project management experience
• Leadership, mentoring, and coaching ability
• Ability to travel (up to 25% of time) to both Canada and the United States