What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Integrity Manager, Engineered Polymers & Medical Solutions position at The Lubrizol Corporation?
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team as a Product Integrity Manager
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
The Estane Product Integrity Manager is responsible for ensuring the highest standards of product quality, consistency, and customer satisfaction for Estane products. This role requires deep technical expertise in performance testing, product design, commercialization, and manufacturing processes, as well as a strong understanding of customer needs and application requirements. The manager collaborates closely with global operations quality personnel and serves as a key advocate for both technical service and operational excellence, balancing commercial and technical objectives to deliver robust products and exceptional customer experiences.
What We're Looking For
Product Knowledge & Performance:
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
#LBZUS
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team as a Product Integrity Manager
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
The Estane Product Integrity Manager is responsible for ensuring the highest standards of product quality, consistency, and customer satisfaction for Estane products. This role requires deep technical expertise in performance testing, product design, commercialization, and manufacturing processes, as well as a strong understanding of customer needs and application requirements. The manager collaborates closely with global operations quality personnel and serves as a key advocate for both technical service and operational excellence, balancing commercial and technical objectives to deliver robust products and exceptional customer experiences.
What We're Looking For
Product Knowledge & Performance:
- Maintain intimate understanding of Estane product performance in end-use applications, including customer requirements and tolerances.
- Identify and communicate strengths and weaknesses in product design.
- Acquire and leverage insights through frequent consultation with TPU technology managers.
- Lead Product Quality Incident Teams in response to customer QP complaints including root cause analysis investigations with 4-Step problem solving..
- Manage non-conforming material disposition and coordinate alternative raw material approvals.
- Ensure product consistency aligned with performance specifications and customer approvals.
- Drive robust product design and specification development to prevent future quality issues.
- Conduct design reviews (dFMEA) and support complexity reduction and EOL components/products initiatives.
- Support scale-up and plant trials (eMA) for new materials and manufacturing authorizations.
- Serve as key contact advocating for customer needs and balancing technical service with operational realities.
- Work closely with internal teams to deliver a consistent, positive customer experience.
- Make decisions impacting customer experience, going beyond meeting product specifications.
- Ensure Technical Data Sheets (TDS) align with manufacturing capabilities, application requirements, and handling needs.
- Maintain close relationships with technical teams to understand application performance and inform product design.
- Collaborate with global operations quality personnel and internal technical/commercial teams to support business growth and customer retention.
- Coordinate internal functions to support overall customer satisfaction and business objectives
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field.
- 5 years' experience in product development, quality management, or technical service, preferably in polymers or specialty chemicals.
- Deep understanding of product performance testing, manufacturing processes, and commercialization.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve complex quality issues and manage customer complaints.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Experience with dFMEA, Management of Change (MOC), and scale-up processes.
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
#LBZUS