Senior Scientist Environmental Sciences

• Has hands-on experience and a strong academic background in topics like up-cycling of waste streams, climate change mitigation measures and cleaning of water and air.
• Develop, refine and manage individual and unique projects while coordinating the project team members' (including cross-functional) daily activities to meet challenging schedule milestones and objectives
• Direct collaboration with internal business innovation teams, applications R&D, engineering / production, and outside institutes / universities as appropriate.
• Responsible for identifying patentable inventions and acting as principal investigator in conducting his or her own experiments
• Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the results of analyses and the preparation of relevant conclusions in publishable form, use of statistical tools
• Coordinate input / output for material costing, capital equipment expenditures, etc.
• Advise peers and senior management on how to best use research findings
• Has hands-on experience and a strong academic background in topics like up-cycling, land reclamation
• Degree in a environmental sciences or adjacent discipline : MSc with minimum 3 years experience; or, preferably, a PhD
• Experience working in a laboratory is a must
• Fluency in English and (with at least basic proficiency in German preferred)
• Readiness to carry out own experiments in a laboratory environment
• Ability to contribute to scientific papers together with peers
• Is willing to travel domestically and internationally (about 1 week / month maximum)
• Proactive, target-oriented, systematic and willing to work on multidisciplinary projects
• Is a team player who can work in team to ensure successful project completion
• Adapts easily to new environments and is flexible
• Can think out-of-the-box and has an innovative point of view
• Is target and result-oriented
• Work in an ISO-certified environment

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