# Product Development Chemist

PPG has an opportunity for an expert formulator to advance automotive refinish coatings technology. The successful candidate will join the Refinish Product Development team and serve as the team's formulation expert for the development, optimization, scale-up, and launch of waterborne basecoat toners and related technologies. This role is designed for a seasoned scientist who can independently tackle the team's most difficult formulation challenges. The individual will diagnose complex performance gaps, define formulation strategies, design efficient experimental approaches, integrate knowledge across relevant scientific disciplines, and identify optimized formulations that balance color, application, product performance, robustness, manufacturability, and business requirements. The position will also provide end-to-end technical leadership for transferring toners from the laboratory into the Delaware manufacturing plant. The individual will lead the technical execution and coordination of NPL, FRR, CMWS batch following, manufacturing color confirmation, scale-up troubleshooting, and readiness for routine manufacture. This is an individual contributor role with broad assignments an

- **Id**: 4268450
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ppg-product-development-chemist>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cleveland, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T17:00:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11528
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Insurance coverage, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, Building Materials

## Company

- **Id**: 8313
- **Name**: PPG
- **Domain**: ppg.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ppg>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 104
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.923
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 115000
- **Max**: 130000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 130000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Design of Experiments** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T17:00:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T18:03:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 130000
- **Is top pay**: no

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