Building Materials Developer

About this Apprenticeship

What You'll Learn

Requirements

What Knauf offers

• You help develop building materials as part of the Core Products Innovation product development team
• You improve existing products, mixtures and manufacturing processes to meet future challenges
• Your duties include all the usual tasks in a development laboratory, including preparing and analysing samples, developing and mixing formulations, carrying out chemical and physicochemical tests, examining plasterboard and gypsum mixtures, and supporting plant trials
• You document the findings and communicate them in a way suited to your audience
• You also adapt, introduce and improve processes to develop and produce new, innovative gypsum products
• Security: A permanent employment contract with a stable, successful family business, with good pay under or outside a fixed pay scale
• Flexibility: 30 days of holiday, flexible working hours with a flexitime account, and weekly days working from home
• Career development: Individual support for studying alongside work, further education and training
• Employee discounts: Discounts at well-known brands and reduced-price shopping opportunities for employees
• Bike leasing: Tax savings while supporting your health
• Relocation support: Help with an international move
• Fitness and health: Discounts on various sports and leisure activities, plus a range of health support measures
• Save time each day: Plenty of parking and direct public transport access through the plant grounds, plus a shuttle service for the Kitzingen office
• Feel welcome: Structured onboarding days, company events and team events to help you get started and settle into the team
• Take a break: A canteen with subsidised meals and a barista coffee bar