The ALTANA Group develops and manufactures high-quality, innovative specialty chemical products. With us, you can help shape many important details of the world of the future. Our four divisions BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA have set worldwide standards in their markets. Our innovative products enable companies to develop technologies of the future today, technologies that make life easier, safer, and more comfortable. With sales of more than 2.2 billion euros, we are one of the world's most innovative, fastest-growing, and most protable chemical companies. We currently employ about 6,500 people who have good ideas for the world of the future. Discover your decisive plus for your future. Bringing you many advantages.
BYK Additives & Instruments is one of the world's leading suppliers in the field of additives and measuring instruments. Around the world, the additives of BYK ensure that coatings and plastics obtain precisely the desired properties and the correct quality.
Sourcing Geologist
Your task structure
Primary Objectives:
To work with existing clay suppliers to ensure required quality and quantity of supply to BYK's existing global products is maintained.
Based on business priorities, actively seek and propose credible new and alternative clay sources to the organization to
Ensure stable long-term sourcing for existing products
To provide options for enhancement (quality, cost or security) of existing products.
To provide bases for potential new or novel products.
Duties and Responsibilities:
To develop, document and maintain external relationships/contacts throughout the global raw clay supply world at
Existing BYK suppliers.
Potential BYK suppliers
Industry groups (e.g. EUBA)
Key institutions (universities, country geological services)
Professional groups
To maintain strong internal relationships with all relevant internal functions globally, particularly
R&D
Purchasing
Product Management
Operations at clay using sites
To ensure a long-term stable clay sourcing strategy for existing products is in place, updating and communicating changes to key stakeholders at least annually, recommending projects or changes to enhance security, quality and/or cost.
To work with and alongside, as necessary, supplier geologists to develop mining plans to allow short term extraction of and longer-term visibility of defined clay qualities.
To, together with the suppliers and consuming sites, develop and maintain mid and long-term reserve specific quality systems (including bore holing, stockpiling and sampling plans) to ensure stability of incoming clay supplies, allowing anticipation of potential future issues.
To monitor, with internal stakeholders, product quality shifts that may result from changing input clay properties and work with all stakeholders (internal and external) to understand and control.
To, with R&D, develop and maintain, a provenanced sample screening database of all known reserves which are or may be available to BYK.
To actively seek provenanced samples to expand the above database.
To work as a key part in, or lead, multidisciplinary teams to develop sourcing options for new and enhanced products, from audit visits to working with suppliers geologists/mining engineers in opening new or expanding existing deposits.
To fill in for, when and if necessary, the Mining Manager with respect to the operational extraction of the company's own reserves.
Your recipe for success
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Degree level qualification in Geology, Geological Sciences or related discipline.
Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in a non-hydrocarbon extractive industry, preferably with significant post extraction processing.
Commercially aware with strong networking skills.
Basic familiarity with and interest in mineral processing technology.
Strong initiative with ability to develop own task plans.
Ability and willingness to travel internationally
Desirable
Interest in mineralogy and associated analytical techniques in a 'soft rock' environment.
Previous international exposure and cultural adaptability.
Experience in working in multidisciplinary teams on complex projects
Understanding of bulk/semi-bulk international supply chains.
Language skills
Your spectrum of advantages
In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.
We invite you to get to know us better and to become part of our team. Discover your career plus in specialty chemistry. Please send us your application, preferably via our jobmarket www.altana.jobs.
ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a
qualified individual with disability.
