Product Stewardship Intern

Vibrantz Technologies Inc.

Posted 3 months ago

Internship

Ashtabula, Ohio

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Responsibilities

Support the development of new raw materials and finished goods by updating product formulations and compositions. Handle customer requests for product regulatory information and assist in migrating data to the SAP S4 Hana platform.

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Job Description

About Vibrantz Technologies

Vibrantz Technologies is a leading global provider of specialty chemicals and materials solutions whose purpose is to bring color, performance, and. vibrancy to live. Every day, our employees, the products we make, and our valued customer partnerships are inspired by this purpose.

Serving over 11,000 customers, Vibrantz's technologies are trusted in a variety of advanced materials, color solutions and performance coatings applications and consumer products. WE are experts in particle engineering, glass and ceramic science and color technology. Our technologies are used in small amounts to make big impacts on applications and consumer products, including durable vehicles and batteries, easier-to-clean appliances, energy efficient roof titles and bricks, stronger and more decorative glass, and echo-friendly paints.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Vibrantz has over 50 manufacturing facilities and sales offices on six continents, and we employe 4,500 individuals. Our shared culture is rooted strongly in our four core values that focus on winning with customers, striving for excellence, championing people, and doing the right thing.

Vibrantz is owned by American Securities, a leading U.S. private equity firm that invests in market-leading North American companies with annual revenue generally ranging from $200 million to $2 billion and/or $50 million to $200 million of EBITDA. American Securities and its affiliates have approximately $23 Billion under management and are based in New York with an office in Shanghai.

For more information, please visit www.vibrantz.com and www.american-securities.com

Location

Ashtabula, OH

Total Rewards

We offer comprehensive total rewards packages including base pay, variable incentive programs, 401K, medical, dental, vision, life & disability and variety of well-being resources that meet the needs of our diverse workforce. Union benefits are governed by the applicable collective bargaining unit agreement.

$15.07 - $18.84

Vibrantz is committed to maintaining pay transparency in accordance with applicable laws and best practices. Compensation for this position will be dirtied based on a combination of factors, including education, professional certifications, relevant experience, and other job-related considerations permitted by law.

Tasks: 

As for tasks, many of those listed as I mentioned are routine to support new raw materials, new intermediate and finished goods product development, updating existing products, etc.  Answering customer requests for product regulatory information is also a large portion of our overall activities to support our customers.   Currently, we have a high workload of customer requests (as Alison can attest to).  It is very difficult to de-prioritize these routine tasks or shuffle tasks around within the small team to allow time for the larger projects (see below).

Projects: 

Because it will still be some time until all sites and BU’s are on the same ERP platform, our team has taken the initiative (Project Stew) to try and move product formulation/composition information from non-SAP sites into SAP so we can help standardize our tasks.  In the Americas, we have a few sites that are on our list to transition - Westfield and Queretaro, and then Brazil and Colombia most likely.   These projects take collaboration with other departments, IT and our SAP consultant’s assistance.

Since regulations across the world are constantly changing, we must also keep our systems as up to date as possible, so our chemical data, SDS’s and other information we provide to our customers is accurate.  We are currently working on upgrading the SAP S4 Hana platform with the most current 3E regulatory data to help support the next phases of the overall corporate IT projects.  With a limited staff, this upgrade process, including user testing, is difficult to find time for based upon all other tasks and constant re-prioritization of those.

Vibrantz is committed to protecting your privacy. We provide a Website Privacy Policy located on our www.vibrantz.com site to explain the type of information we collect and inform you of the specific practices and guidelines that protect the security and confidentiality of your personal data. Please read that pocky carefully. If any term in the policy is unacceptable to you, please do not use the Website or provide any personal data. This policy may change from time to time (see Revisions to our Privacy Policy on www.vibrantz.com).

Vibrantz Technologies Inc. ("Vibrantz") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Vibrantz strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, cree, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex gender, age physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

Vibrantz Technologies Inc.

Vibrantz Technologies is a leading global technology leader in color solutions, functional coatings and specialty minerals whose purpose is to bring color, performance and vibrancy to life in countless products across a broad array of end markets.
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