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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.\n20% Travel\n Providing testing support and guidance for stage gate product development, product investigations, and internal and external product benchmarking.\nCalculating, coordinating, and communicating required personnel, substrates, application equipment time, and material quantities to support multi-product benchmarking projects.\nCompleting application assessment for stage gate projects for all technologies\nCompleting application work and provide feedback for, Raw-Material replacement, Manufacturing site change, Rework and technology transfer projects\nUtilizing extensive knowledge of product performance to interpret coating application results to provide feedback to formulation team in developing new products\nDevelopment and validation 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