Sustainable Textile Expert / Specialist 100%
- Full-time
Company Description
Get involved in environmentally friendly and safe textile production - and become part of a sustainable worldwide movement.
bluesign technologies ag is a global company headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland. We offer solutions for the textile industry and related sectors to produce safe and environmentally friendly products. Our customers include well-known brands, chemical suppliers, and manufacturers. Our employees include motivated professionals, focused specialists - and perhaps soon you too.
Job Description
- Be the expert for production processes in the textile industry
- Be the expert for sustainability and EHS aspects in the textile industry
- Contribute to the development of the bluesign® CRITERIA
- Give expert advice and support to our system partners
- Conduct external and internal trainings and webinars
- Develop and maintain training and knowledge documents
- Be the subject matter expert (SME) to development e-learnings with our training manager
- Develop new services to raise the value of the bluesign® SYSTEM and the bluesign® ACADEMY
- Networking with relevant stakeholders from associations, NGOs, academia
Qualifications
- Technical degree, textile related (e.g. Msc textile engineer, mechanical engineer)
- Proven experience (ideally > 10 years) in the field of textile manufacturing
- Having expert knowledge in the area EHS (Environment, Health and Safety)
- Having in depth knowledge of impacts caused by the textile (e.g. Carbon/water/chemical footprint, air/water emission)
- Being well connected with relevant industry organizations (e.g. Transformers foundation, Textile Exchange, AFIRM)
- Having a good understanding of the sustainability label landscape
- Having profound knowledge of regulatory requirements related to chemicals in the textile industry (e.g. REACh, POPs, Prop 65 regulation)
- Being passionate about sustainable development and education
- Being able to study new subjects in the quickly developing field of sustainability and extract key messages
- Having experience in technical writing
- Conscientious and organized
- Ability to drive things forward and motivate others
- Open-minded
- Being able to convert complex technical knowledge into appealing trainings/presentations without loss of information
- Good interpersonal and intercultural skills
- Team worker with proven ability to work independently
- Very good command of written and verbal communication in English (German or any other language is a plus)
Additional Information
This position require hybrid mode and presence in the office for approx. 3 days per week.