The R&D Chemist II will work extensively in the Building Products, Energy, and General Finishing market segments, supporting Powder coating technologies. This role requires close collaboration with Marketing, Sales, and end customers to advance technologies and meet product performance and warranty expectations.
Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.
• Works collaboratively with General Industrial Sales, Technical and Marketing teams to support and secure new business as well as maintaining current customer base.
• Communicates effectively and promptly with managers, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders. This includes delivering formal and informal presentations as needed.
• Analyzes data to identify trends, resolve customer issues, and assess information for project advancement.
• Leads technically complex projects or multiple simpler projects with minimal supervisor input.
o Establishing timelines and identifying resource needs to support project work.
• Applies specialized knowledge/skills with polymers, adhesion, raw materials, instrumentation, extrusion, additives, and substrates to develop superior performance coatings and perform root cause analysis when problems arise.
• May directly work with and mentor lower-level chemists or technicians to support team project goals.
• Hands-on development: formulating, processing, applying, curing, and testing of new coating products.
• Scale-up and manufacturing of new products.
• Implement continuous improvement efforts.
• Uses SDS and raw materials management system.
• Adheres to safety policies and laboratory documentation.
• Written and verbal communication of all results. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, good organizational and planning abilities, and a high level of initiative.