R&D Chemist – Coatings

As a R&D Chemist you will assist in formulating new products as requested by Marketing, assist in re-formulating current product lines for improvement, and assist in solving technical scale-up and manufacturing problems by ensuring the availability of quality and value engineered products which satisfy customer’s requirements and increase sales and profitability of the corporation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Analyze organic and inorganic compounds to determine chemical and physical properties, composition, structure, relationships, and reactions, utilizing chromatography, spectroscopy, and spectrophotometry techniques
• Maintain laboratory instruments to ensure proper working order and troubleshoot malfunctions when needed
• Develop, improve, and customize products, equipment, formulas, processes, and analytical methods
• Conduct quality control tests
• Direct, coordinate, and advise personnel in test procedures for analyzing components and physical properties of coatings and related materials
• Prepare test solutions, compounds, and reagents for laboratory personnel to conduct test
• Compile and analyze test information to determine process or equipment operating efficiency and to diagnose malfunctions
• Confer with peers and supervisors to conduct analyses of research projects, interpret test results, or develop nonstandard tests
• Write technical papers, and reports and prepare standards and specifications for processes, products, or tests
• Induce changes in composition of substances by introducing heat, light, energy, and chemical catalysts for quantitative and qualitative analysis

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Steve Sapita at ssapita@cps4jobs.com.

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Technical Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or other scientific technical field
• 4-6 years of coatings technology experience
• Proven ability to use fundamental polymer properties to predict end-use performance
• Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo
• Demonstrated use of Design of Experiments
• Proven ability to work effectively on cross-functional / project teams
• Ability to work safely in company laboratories, manufacturing, and customer facilities
• Solid record keeping skills
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Solid PC skills including MS Office

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Steve Sapita at ssapita@cps4jobs.com.

JO:  474.21SS
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