Technical Service Chemist

Mid-sized specialty chemical company is looking for an experienced water-based coatings formulator. If you are a chemist with expertise in coatings R&D and like managing projects and working with customers, this could be a great opportunity for you! Company offers excellent benefits with competitive pay; great opportunities for growth!

Duties:

• Assist the Sales team in maintaining and growing new business through focusing on customer needs and requirements
• Identify technology gaps and provide technical insight to R&D to develop new products for new and existing customers
• Lead technical service projects, including formulation development, design of experiments, use of in-house testing equipment, presentation of project results to technical group / customers and make recommendations on project direction
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of coatings formulations and maintain knowledge of competitive technologies and market trends
• Assist customers with problem analysis, batch qualification, troubleshooting
• Demonstrate knowledge of and support (HSE) Health, Safety and Environmental programs
• Establish positive and communicative relationships with Sales, Applications, Quality Assurance, R&D groups and Production
• Maintain understandable, comprehensive and detailed records of Technical Service projects; effectively collect, communicate and manage information and data flow
• Key technical interface between the business and external customers; responsible for applications role in business / product development cycle
• Promote products at technical conferences by giving presentations and write publications for industry journals
• Possible annual overseas travel

Salary

$80,000 - $100,000

Benefits M/D/V/L/401K

Technical Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Coatings Science or Polymer Science required
• A minimum of 7-10 years of experience with waterborne coatings formulation and development for architectural and industrial applications
• Strong knowledge of coatings for wood, metal and concrete substrates required
• General knowledge of waterborne acrylic emulsions and polyurethane dispersions
• General knowledge of air dry, radiation cure and 2K systems
• If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Devin Heffernan at [email protected].

JO: 25.26DH