R&D Project Manager

As a R&D Project Manager for Surface & Barrier, you will be responsible for developing, testing, and optimizing barrier solutions that enhance the performance of fibre-based packaging. This role focuses on improving material properties such as moisture, grease, oxygen, and aroma resistance while ensuring sustainability, recyclability, and cost-efficient production. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to accelerate innovation and bring barrier technologies from laboratory scale to industrial implementation. This role will develop the needed proof of concepts (PoC) into industrial demonstration. Special focus will be in the development of cost effective and sustainable barriers for a paper-based board designs both for direct food contact and non-food contact applications.