Are you a Chemist focused on developing superior products? This chemical company has been in business for 150 years and is focused on growth via high quality products and customer service. There is a strong R&D team here led by an industry veteran.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops new and modifies existing UV/LED-cure ink and coating formulas using appropriate experimental design to meet customer requirements for the printing market.
• Conducts ink and coatings-related tests and experiments in a laboratory environment using both standard and novel test procedures.
• Accurately interprets data and results, documents conclusions within project management database, and communicates conclusions and direction to internal functional partners and external customers.
• Works closely with existing and new raw material suppliers to evaluate new and/or replacement materials for use in ink and coating product formulations.
• Provides scale-up and support for the ink product formulas with manufacturing and Quality Control including the establishment of testing requirements, specifications, and troubleshooting assistance.
• Provides product and process recommendations as required based on requests for information from customers and other internal functions such as Sales.
• Provides technical information and product guidance in support of the creation of product Safety Data Sheets and Technical Data Sheets.
• Supports business revenue growth through product innovation which includes literature surveys, industry partner engagement, customer engagement, and experimentation in the lab. Some occasional travel will be required.
• Prepares prints of inks and coatings or other marketing-related exhibits for internal and customer use.
• Aligns laboratory and product formulation support activities within the framework of the ISO-9001 Quality Management System.
• Provides mentoring and direction to less-experienced R&D and Regulatory staff members.
• Leads cross-functional project teams related to product changes, product development, and/or process modification.
• Monitors, assigns, and takes action on incoming technical project requests within eChempax, email, and/or other communication routes.
• Creates new and directs existing R&D projects based on business priorities for the market segment supported. Provides direction on project experimental design to other members of the R&D segment team.

**If you'd like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Tory Mack at tmack@cps4jobs.com 

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• BS degree in Chemistry, or related science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in UV-cure ink, UV-cure coatings, and/or other liquid coating chemistry and formulation.
• Experience formulating lithographic offset UV-cure paste ink is a strong plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey technical data, conclusions, and product recommendations.
• Ability to travel to customer and/or industry partner locations 5-10% of the time.
• Self-starter. Able to meet goals, objectives, and deadlines in a fast-paced and customer centric environment.
• Strong math, time-management, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Proficient with MS Office.

**If you'd like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Tory Mack at tmack@cps4jobs.com 

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