R&D- Associate Chemist

The Associate Chemist position in our Coil division that is responsible for a variety of exciting activities related to developing new technologies and new platforms in our high performance coatings.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access to confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. 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.

15% Travel

• Working closely with a mentor chemist developing, reformulating, maintaining and enhancing products through planning, executing and analysis of experiments with clear and accurate results.
• Display a basic working knowledge of the use of chemicals, raw materials, substrate preparation and use instruments commonly found in a lab environment
• Responsible for inputting data, data analysis and technical documentation daily into lab books or a database.
• Functioning under substantial supervision, but may lead individual or group projects. Product development and/or enhanced with consistent in performance and quality.
• Utilizing advanced technologies to develop products that demonstrate improvements and difference that consumer can perceive and will desire.
• Serve as a technical resource for all PVDF Coil Blend Cell Projects
• Interact with customers both internally and externally on technical projects
• Performing basic paint making processes, meets manufactures specifications
• Performing basic coating formulations, applications and physical/performance testing methods
• Providing timely and accurate data to help resolve field complaints, raw material issues, manufacturing problems, and support existing and new product development
• Experience with solvent-borne and water-borne acrylic, alkyd, epoxy and urethane chemistries
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Application and troubleshooting of coil coatings

Minimum Requirements

• Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status)
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (“STEM”) field
• Computer knowledge for basic inputting, communication, and data analysis
• Math knowledge
• Chemistry knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Polymers and Coatings
• 1 year industrial coatings lab experience
• Experience working with DOE, Minitab, Product Vision, Navigator, Microsoft Access, Excel, Word.

Successful candidate will be required to sign an Employee Restrictive Covenant Agreement where permitted by law.