Senior Chemist

As a Senior Chemist, you will get to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, leveraging your entrepreneurial spirit, investigative abilities, and customer-relationship skills, to create great product development outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of driving innovation and growth for a Division within a market-leading, Fortune 200 organization!

Duties:

• Lead the development of new acrylic, polyurethane, and/or epoxy adhesive products or technologies for alternative energy, transportation, wear & abrasion, and general industrial markets.
• Innovate with polymers, catalysts, modifiers, and monomers in adhesives and coatings to fulfill unmet customer/application needs for developing differentiated products and solutions while complying with adopted ISO requirements.
• Manage technical aspects of assigned projects within a stage-gate process in conjunction with a project manager.
• Clearly identify project goals, product design requirements, technical approach, test strategy, and conduct laboratory evaluations and issue final comprehensive reports.
• Conduct patent searches to monitor competitive innovations and generate intellectual property in own area of development in the form of patents, formulation know-how, and trade secrets.
• Lead the scale-up of formulations from lab scale to mid- and full-size commercial batches. Coordinate and work with internal departments on the technology transfer for scale-up, and commercialization, and determine the appropriate design and product specifications to maximize ease of manufacturing and customer application.
• Provide short- and long-term support for current products to maintain company’s reputation for quality and performance by qualifying alternative sources of raw materials and validating performance.
• Manage multiple projects/tasks independently and as part of a team and fully utilize analytical laboratory equipment.
• Work hands-on in the laboratory, when necessary, and manage the daily activities of a research lab technician(s).
• Understand and stay abreast of important safety and regulatory requirements affecting existing products and new products being developed.
• Provide training in subject-matter expertise to new employees.
• Promote, support, and adhere to all safety, environmental, and quality policies and procedures.
• If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Steve Sapita at [email protected].
  
  

JO: 56.24SS

Candidate Factors:

• Advanced degree in Organic or Polymer Chemistry. PhD preferred
• 10 years of industrial R&D experience in product development roles preferred
• Adhesives and coatings formulation experience highly preferred
• Proven track record of successfully developing new and innovative products with significant revenue impact
• Solid knowledge of structure-property relationships in adhesive and coating materials is highly preferred
• Extensive experience with polymer testing and characterization equipment (Instron, DMA, DSC, FT-IR, rheometers, TMA, TGA, GC-MS, and other spectroscopic and chemical analysis equipment)
• Strong computer and organizational skills are required. Proficiency with Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
• Willing to collaborate and work in cross-functional teams to advance ideas and projects
• Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, and investigative skills
• Must be a practical, hands-on chemist/scientist with excellent formulation skills and problem-solving ability
• Track record of technical capabilities evidenced by patents and published peer-reviewed journal articles
• If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Steve Sapita at [email protected].
  
  

JO: 56.24SS