Summary:  The Director of the Consumables business group leads the efforts to increase sales of our proprietary consumables through intensive customer contact, communications, and interaction.  This position will be responsible for developing a true understanding of customer user patterns so as to create strategies for expanded growth of our proprietary consumables.  This person will be responsible for understanding the demand variables across a number of customer types and applications to drive higher revenue growth in these customer groups.

The Director of Consumables will study customer usage patterns to establish reliable performance metrics that will support business decisions designed to expand revenue.  The goal is to develop a true understanding of our customer’s use of our equipment as well as our consumables.  This person will then recommend, design, and implement programs to further expand the use of the company’s proprietary consumables.  This could include the development of marketing and awareness campaigns, promotional activities, packaging options, pricing strategies, etc. to support quarterly and annual initiatives. Contact with international customers and channel partners will be required, but initially the focus will be on domestic users of our equipment.  Must develop and maintain cooperation with our existing channel management, channel partners, marketing teams, and other support organization within Stratasys. Business planning, customer education, data gathering and analysis, and metric creation will be essential requirements for the successful candidate.

The Director of Consumables is accountable for driving revenues through interaction with customers, account managers, channel managers, and other in the organization to identify opportunities within the customers installed base, and to identify future application and development opportunities.  However, the primary responsibility will be revenue growth through offerings of currently available materials and systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):
• Researches customer accounts for opportunities to expand revenues.
• Initiates contact with potential partners, defining the scope of the relationship, identifying profitable deal terms, negotiating transactions, and managing the implementation.
• Analyzes complex data, and thinks strategically about customer’s needs for Rapid Prototyping, Direct Digital Manufacturing, and 3D Printing.
• Study and determine the drivers of the consumable growth and develop programs to address these drivers so to expand growth beyond trend.  Determine the differences in usage within the strategic verticals and discern the reasons for these differences in verticals such as Architectural, Aerospace, Automotive, Business Machines, Consumer Products, Design Services, Gov/Military and Medical.
• Collect, analyze, test, and publish data concerning consumable usage, machine usage, development opportunities, key metrics, to help the company expand sales of consumables, systems, and services to meet the customers need.
• Longer range may use data and metrics for recommended R&D activities, material characteristic, etc.
• Demonstrate commitment to Stratasys Core Values by leading, acting and behaving in manners consistent with these values. 
• Follow all company safety policies and procedures and attend all safety trainings related to the job position.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering combined with an MBA, preferably with a marketing emphasis.  5+ years experience in business development, product management, or similar roles.  Prior P&L responsibility desirable.
• Must be analytical and detail orientated, with demonstrated proficiency in statistics, trend analysis, and financial forecasting.
• Should have working knowledge of web-based marketing principles and applications
• Strong presentation and verbal and written communication skills. 
• Above average skill level using Excel, MS Word, Outlook, Power Point and the Internet.

Supervisory Responsibilities:   
• None at this time.

Physical/Environmental Requirements:   
• Typical office environment.
• Ability to travel 40% - 60% of the time.

Summary:  Electrical design, development, and continuation support for machine control electronics.  Will develop and implement hardware test plans, project planning and scheduling.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):
• Development of Digital and Analog circuits and circuit boards.
• Design and development of microprocessor and programmable logic devices, including FPGA, CPLD, etc.
• Circuit test, integration and debugging in support of project team.
• Develop detailed schedules and test plans for assigned design tasks.
• Support continuing engineering needs by identifying replacement components, troubleshooting production issues, and participating in cost-reduction and reliability improvement efforts for electrical hardware.
• Demonstrate commitment to Stratasys Core Values by leading, acting and behaving. 
• Follow all company safety policies and procedures and attend all safety trainings related to the job position.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 3-5 years experience and a strong background in the following areas:
     o Embedded control hardware development.
     o Programmable logic design and development
     o Motion control hardware design and development
     o Experience with sensor interface and signal conditioning
     o Experience with embedded communications and network protocols
     o Understanding of power distribution in machine designs.
     o Development of test plans for design verification, margin analysis, and life.
     o Conduct critical design reviews and participate in reviews of other designs
     o Understanding of agency design and performance requirements to meet emissions and immunity
     o Design for Manufacturability and assembly
     o Design for medium to high volume production
• Possess the ability to work well in a team environment.  Must be open to the ideas of others and exhibit objectivity and openness to others’ ideas and views.
• Ability to manage a project to scope
• Ability to follow established design and documentation processes

Supervisory Responsibilities:
• None

Physical/Environmental Requirements:
• Office environment, extensive use of monitor/keyboard.

Summary:   Transactional execution of inventory control processes including, but not limited, to:  ECO maintenance, Cycle Count, Order Processing, Inventory transactions, and Root Cause Analysis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):
• Implement ECO disposition.  Insure BOM, inventory transaction and item master files are updated per ECO checklist.  Move components appropriately per ECO, i.e. setting up stock locations for new parts on receipt, transferring parts to MRB as needed.
• Investigate discrepancies between actual inventory levels versus ERP system inventory levels.
• Participate and oversee cycle counting activities.
• Organize inventory locations and maintain bin locations in ERP system.
• Transact production orders, purchase orders, and replenishment orders as assigned.
• Keep good inventory and ECO records.  Develop and maintain a tracking system to monitor workflow, status and completion of ECOs.
• Provide back up for shipping and receiving functions.
• Demonstrate commitment to Stratasys Core Values by leading, acting and behaving. 
• Follow all company safety policies and procedures and attend all safety trainings related to the job position.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• Detail oriented, PC proficient
• High School Diploma and 5+ years manufacturing or Inventory Control experience or 2-year degree and 1+ years manufacturing or Inventory Control experience.
• APICS Certification desired

Supervisory Responsibilities:
• None

Physical/Environmental Requirements:
• Office and warehouse environments

Summary:   The Sr. Materials Engineer reports to the Technology and Systems Organization and is accountable for the development of polymer materials and related solvents used in Stratasys FORTUS machines.  Responsibilities span the range from identification of application and materials requirements to production release of new materials for Stratasys equipment. This is a senior technical expert role that will be responsible for providing the systems, processes and leadership to improve Stratasys penetration into new applications and markets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):
• Set the short and long term vision for Materials Development research by understanding the product requirements, determining what technology will be needed, and developing projects that deliver the technology.  
• Research and analyze candidate materials to meet application requirements
• End to End materials development responsibilities, including transitioning materials engineering research into production through collaborative work with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Application Engineering, and Test groups.
• Develop key supplier technical relationships and working with these suppliers on development of custom polymer blends.
• Develop understanding of the key material properties that results in good FDM performance
• Provide broad-based expertise on materials capabilities and limitations.
• Develop and maintain a process for new materials development
• Participate in materials-related organizations and other informal networks to foster new learning and identification of best practices related to materials development for FDM applications.
• Perform technology reviews and provide periodic status on material development programs to Sr. Management.
• This position also requires providing technical direction for others in the materials development team.
• Demonstrate commitment to Stratasys Core Values by leading, acting and behaving. 
• Follow all company safety policies and procedures and attend all safety trainings related to the job position.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• M.S. or PhD. degree in Chemistry, Polymer Science or Chemical Engineering with 5-7 years experience in a related technical area that has a history of developing new products.
• Proficient in the design, compounding and characterization of monomers and polymers.
• Demonstrated leadership in conducting and analyzing experiments which deliver statistically based quality products.
• Expertise in polymer extrusion techniques.
• Experienced in polymer additives such as Nano-particles, fibers and other property changing fillers.
• Expertise in polymer solvents.
• Proficient in polymer analysis methods and instruments such as rheology, FT-IR, DSC, MFI, molecular eight measurements, etc.
• Capable of performing technical reviews, reports and publications.
• DFSS background with a working knowledge of DOE process and tools.
• Direct experience working for a chemical compound manufacturer or plastics development company.
• Performs additional job-related responsibilities as scheduled or assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
• This position requires providing technical direction to a staff of 3-4 technical resources in the materials development team.

Physical/Environmental Requirements:
• Work is typically performed in a temperature controlled inside environment. There may be some lifting and movement of materials and equipment in the course of performing designer work.