Role and Responsibilities
- Filter Architecture & Design Execution : Design complex new filter specifications based on regional and global customer requirements, ensuring designs maximize company profitability and are fully compatible with production line capabilities.
- Specification Evaluation & Optimization : Evaluate new filter developments against original performance benchmarks; execute detailed corrective actions and iterative design modifications to optimize product performance.
- Database & Specification Management : Coordinate directly with manufacturing teams and material suppliers to maintain, update, and record accurate filter design specifications in the company's software database program.
- Product Testing & SOP Development : Carry out rigorous analysis and physical testing of new filter prototypes. Evaluate quality parameters and assist in creating standardized planning methods and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Continuous Improvement Support : Actively support continuous improvement initiatives across the design loop, identifying technical gaps in existing filter designs and implementing efficient, stable solutions.
- Peer Mentorship : Work alongside the Global Filter Designer Manager & Senior Manager Product & Technology Designer to provide technical guidance, design principles support, and software mastery update for each project given.
Typical Accountabilitie
- Sample Verification : Ensure final design and material specifications for assigned high-priority filter samples are technically verified before moving to production
- Material Compliance Execution : Apply established material standards to new designs, balancing cost-effectiveness with global quality compliance
- Quality Standards Alignment : Adhere strictly to the company's Gold Standard for new product quality, maintaining consistent technical execution across all design projects
- Testing & Scaling Transition : Execute complex sample testing protocols and support production teams in successfully transitioning filter designs from pilot testing to full-scale manufacturing readiness
- Intra-Departmental Reporting : Serve as a key technical point of contact under the Global Filter Designer Manager to ensure all outputs align with the broader vision managed by the Product & Technology Design Manage
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Minimum Diploma (D3) in Engineering
- Minimum 3 years experience in cigarette filter manufacturing
- Knowledge of cigarette filter production & involve any Product Development project.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems
- Familiar with operating a computer (especially mini-tab software
- Meticulous and thorough in the details of the work
