Chemist II
Fortrex · Arkansas, United States · 1 mo ago
AnalystFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions.
We need to parse the posting.
Key sections:
- Summary Position Summary WHO YOU ARE: ... (intro). Could be "About the role" maybe. The posting includes "Position Summary" and "WHO YOU ARE". Could be considered "About the role". We'll put that in
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions.
We need to parse the posting.
Key sections:
- Summary Position Summary WHO YOU ARE: ... (intro). Could be "About the role" maybe. The posting includes "Position Summary" and "WHO YOU ARE". Could be considered "About the role". We'll put that in About the role
with paragraphs.
- "Who We Are" description: Could be part of About the role or separate "About the company". Not in allowed headings list. We could include under About the role or maybe not create a separate heading. Since only allowed headings are given, we should stick to them. We can put company description under About the role as prose.
- "Job Description": responsibilities. So we can have Responsibilities
with - list of duties.
- "The Successful Candidate Will Be Able To ..." also responsibilities.
- "Your Must Haves": requirements/qualifications. Could be
Requirements
(or Qualifications). We'll use Requirements for must-haves, and Qualifications for preferred? The allowed headings include Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We can separate: Must-haves as Requirements, Preferred as Qualifications, and maybe Skills as separate list.
- "What We Offer": benefits. So Benefits
with list.
- Pay and Schedule: not mentioned. So we should NOT include those sections.
- Environment details: maybe not a heading; could be part of Responsibilities or About the role. Could be included as a paragraph under About the role or Responsibilities. Since not a heading, we can embed in a paragraph.
- "Our Environment" details: physical demands. Could be part of Responsibilities or maybe a separate section but not allowed heading. We'll embed as a paragraph under Responsibilities or About the role.
- "What We Offer" list includes medical, dental, vision, basic life, short-term disability, long-term disability, retirement plan, paid holidays (varies by location), paid vacation, employee assistance program, training & development opportunities. Also EEO disclaimer (remove). So Benefits section includes those.
- Also "Your Must Haves": Must be 18+, Bachelor's degree..., 3-5 years experience.
- "What We Prefer You Have": Master's degree..., PhD..., self-motivated, etc. That's qualifications/skills.
We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep specifics like "Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, microbiology, or engineering (chemical, biochemical, materials) or other related scientific field". Keep that exactly.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. Not include Job ID/requisition numbers.
We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to strip out the EEO disclaimer, the "Your Next Steps APPLY!" etc.
Also remove duplicated lines: there may be repeated phrases like "Apply!" etc.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
...
Maybe combine position summary and who we are.
Let's craft:
About the role paragraph: "Are you looking to join a growing company? With 2 production locations and plants located from coast to coast, we are looking for a professional, friendly, and experienced Chemist II to join our team! In this role, you will bring a solid technical foundation and proven experience to independently drive formulation and innovation projects."
Then maybe a paragraph about Who We Are: "Leader in food safety solutions for both contract sanitation and chemistry in the food processing industry. Over 10,000 dedicated team members across North America. Corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA with team members working in over 250 plants throughout North America. Over 50+ years of experience in creating long-lasting partnerships. Our Mission: We protect the food supply by eliminating risks so families everywhere can eat without fear. Protect What Matters: We are in service of safety at every step, ensuring the health of everyone is central to all we do – from plant team members to consumers. Deliver On Our Promises: We speak honestly and are dedicated to doing the right thing by upholding ethical standards and following through on our commitments to our teams, our customers, and our business. Win as a Team: We believe in the power of collaboration, uniting our diverse strengths while working hand-in-hand with our team members and customers to unlock potential and achieve stronger results together. Advance a Safer Future: We are committed to innovating more effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient food safety solutions to develop a safer world for all."
That seems fine.
Now Responsibilities: list bullet points from "Job Description" and "The Successful Candidate Will Be Able To". Need to preserve all specifics.
Let's extract responsibilities:
From Job Description:
- As a Chemist II, you will be a member of our innovation team responsible for providing support for our chemical product manufacturing facilities (internal and external) as well as contribute to and drive key innovation projects, and for enhancing existing solutions through continuous improvement in areas such as cleaning solutions, sanitizers, processing aids, and antimicrobial interventions.
- You will work with greater independence than an entry-level Chemist, applying prior experience to more complex problems.
- This role is multidisciplinary in nature and will require the ability to work in a laboratory setting as well as across the boundaries of processing, distribution, chemistry, and dispensing/control solutions in multiple customer applications such as conveyor lubricants, antimicrobials, CIP, environmental cleaning, animal health, and direct food contact applications.
From The Successful Candidate Will Be Able To:
- Gather Information From Multiple Sources And Arrive At Cost Effective Solutions To Provide Quality Products For The Safe Foods Portfolio Of Offerings.
- You Should Be a Self-starter With The Ability To Work Independently As Well As In a Team Environment, And Of High Integrity And Character With a Proven Record Of Creativity And Innovation
- Conceptualize new sanitation/intervention formulations through public domain literature research.
- Design and execute experiments to produce new chemical formulations.
- Design and execute process improvement experiments for existing sanitation/interventions and manufacturing processes.
- Assist in product quality investigations that result in reworking plans or specification updates as part of the CAPA process.
- Works cooperatively with manufacturing plants, distributors, engineering, supply chain, procurement, R&D, and quality assurance in the transfer of new products to commercialization.
- Drives new product development projects from ideation to commercialization as assigned.
- Apply scientific skill to solve complex problems utilizing knowledge of Safe Foods & Fortrex customers and markets.
- Prepares and tests chemical product formulations utilizing appropriate SOPs and test methods.
- Communicate with field staff and Technical Services on the improvement of existing sanitation/intervention formulations & allocation systems.
- Evaluate and approve new raw materials and raw material vendors following appropriate SOPs.
- Review and author technical reports, process and packaging specifications, recommend product quality enhancements, and commercialization materials.
- Independently manage multiple concurrent projects from conception through commercialization with minimal supervision.
- Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to plant and field personnel on formulation-related issues.
- Contribute subject-matter expertise during customer-facing technical discussions as needed.
- Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
We need to keep these as bullet points. Ensure we preserve the exact phrasing? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the content but we can format as list items. Slight rephrasing may be considered summarizing? Safer to keep the sentences essentially same, maybe minor punctuation changes.
We'll output each as - with the sentence.
Now Requirements (must-haves):
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, microbiology, or engineering (chemical, biochemical, materials) or other related scientific field
- 3-5 years of related experience
We could also include "Must be 18 years of age or older." as a requirement.
Now Qualifications (preferred):
- Master's degree in a related scientific field, with 1-3 years of related experience
- PhD in a related scientific field, with 0 years of experience (new graduate or post-doctoral candidates welcome to apply)
- Self-motivated, able to work proactively and independently in a fast paced environment
- Experience with project management
- Familiarity with food safety and or the food manufacturing industry
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with working in a GLP/GMP environment and SQF for GFSI standards
- Experience with EPA and/or DIN disinfectant regulations
- Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project
- Demonstrated written and oral communication skills, attention to detail and problem solving skills
Now Skills: maybe we could separate some of these as Skills, but we already have Qualifications covering many. The allowed headings include Skills; we could put some like "Experience with project management", "Familiarity with food safety", etc. But we already have them in Qualifications. To avoid duplication, we could put only the "Skills" like "Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project", "Demonstrated written and oral communication skills, attention to detail and problem solving skills". However the instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Qualifications and Skills into one section? But we have to use headings only when posting has real specific content. We could have Requirements and Qualifications sections, and maybe not Skills. That's fine.
Now Benefits: list:
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Basic Life Insurance
- Short-term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Holidays (Varies by Location)
- Paid Vacation
- Employee Assistance Program ("EAP")
- Training & Development Opportunities
We need to preserve the exact phrasing; note that "Paid Holidays (Varies by Location)" includes parentheses; we keep.
Now we should not include Pay or Schedule sections.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's construct.
We'll need to ensure proper escaping of any special characters like &, but we can keep as is.
Let's write:
About the role
Are you looking to join a growing company? With 2 production locations and plants located from coast to coast, we are looking for a professional, friendly, and experienced Chemist II to join our team! In this role, you will bring a solid technical foundation and proven experience to independently drive formulation and innovation projects.
Leader in food safety solutions for both contract sanitation and chemistry in the food processing industry. Over 10,000 dedicated team members across North America. Corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA with team members working in over 250 plants throughout North America. Over 50+ years of experience in creating long-lasting partnerships. Our Mission: We protect the food supply by eliminating risks so families everywhere can eat without fear. Protect What Matters: We are in service of safety at every step, ensuring the health of everyone is central to all we do – from plant team members to consumers. Deliver On Our Promises: We speak honestly and are dedicated to doing the right thing by upholding ethical standards and following through on our commitments to our teams, our customers, and our business. Win as a Team: We believe in the power of collaboration, uniting our diverse strengths while working hand-in-hand with our team members and customers to unlock potential and achieve stronger results together. Advance a Safer Future: We are committed to innovating more effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient food safety solutions to develop a safer world
Requirements
(or Qualifications). We'll use Requirements for must-haves, and Qualifications for preferred? The allowed headings include Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We can separate: Must-haves as Requirements, Preferred as Qualifications, and maybe Skills as separate list. - "What We Offer": benefits. SoBenefits
with list. - Pay and Schedule: not mentioned. So we should NOT include those sections. - Environment details: maybe not a heading; could be part of Responsibilities or About the role. Could be included as a paragraph under About the role or Responsibilities. Since not a heading, we can embed in a paragraph. - "Our Environment" details: physical demands. Could be part of Responsibilities or maybe a separate section but not allowed heading. We'll embed as a paragraph under Responsibilities or About the role. - "What We Offer" list includes medical, dental, vision, basic life, short-term disability, long-term disability, retirement plan, paid holidays (varies by location), paid vacation, employee assistance program, training & development opportunities. Also EEO disclaimer (remove). So Benefits section includes those. - Also "Your Must Haves": Must be 18+, Bachelor's degree..., 3-5 years experience. - "What We Prefer You Have": Master's degree..., PhD..., self-motivated, etc. That's qualifications/skills. We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep specifics like "Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, microbiology, or engineering (chemical, biochemical, materials) or other related scientific field". Keep that exactly. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. Not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to strip out the EEO disclaimer, the "Your Next Steps APPLY!" etc. Also remove duplicated lines: there may be repeated phrases like "Apply!" etc. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:About the role
...
Maybe combine position summary and who we are. Let's craft: About the role paragraph: "Are you looking to join a growing company? With 2 production locations and plants located from coast to coast, we are looking for a professional, friendly, and experienced Chemist II to join our team! In this role, you will bring a solid technical foundation and proven experience to independently drive formulation and innovation projects." Then maybe a paragraph about Who We Are: "Leader in food safety solutions for both contract sanitation and chemistry in the food processing industry. Over 10,000 dedicated team members across North America. Corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA with team members working in over 250 plants throughout North America. Over 50+ years of experience in creating long-lasting partnerships. Our Mission: We protect the food supply by eliminating risks so families everywhere can eat without fear. Protect What Matters: We are in service of safety at every step, ensuring the health of everyone is central to all we do – from plant team members to consumers. Deliver On Our Promises: We speak honestly and are dedicated to doing the right thing by upholding ethical standards and following through on our commitments to our teams, our customers, and our business. Win as a Team: We believe in the power of collaboration, uniting our diverse strengths while working hand-in-hand with our team members and customers to unlock potential and achieve stronger results together. Advance a Safer Future: We are committed to innovating more effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient food safety solutions to develop a safer world for all." That seems fine. Now Responsibilities: list bullet points from "Job Description" and "The Successful Candidate Will Be Able To". Need to preserve all specifics. Let's extract responsibilities: From Job Description: - As a Chemist II, you will be a member of our innovation team responsible for providing support for our chemical product manufacturing facilities (internal and external) as well as contribute to and drive key innovation projects, and for enhancing existing solutions through continuous improvement in areas such as cleaning solutions, sanitizers, processing aids, and antimicrobial interventions. - You will work with greater independence than an entry-level Chemist, applying prior experience to more complex problems. - This role is multidisciplinary in nature and will require the ability to work in a laboratory setting as well as across the boundaries of processing, distribution, chemistry, and dispensing/control solutions in multiple customer applications such as conveyor lubricants, antimicrobials, CIP, environmental cleaning, animal health, and direct food contact applications. From The Successful Candidate Will Be Able To: - Gather Information From Multiple Sources And Arrive At Cost Effective Solutions To Provide Quality Products For The Safe Foods Portfolio Of Offerings. - You Should Be a Self-starter With The Ability To Work Independently As Well As In a Team Environment, And Of High Integrity And Character With a Proven Record Of Creativity And Innovation - Conceptualize new sanitation/intervention formulations through public domain literature research. - Design and execute experiments to produce new chemical formulations. - Design and execute process improvement experiments for existing sanitation/interventions and manufacturing processes. - Assist in product quality investigations that result in reworking plans or specification updates as part of the CAPA process. - Works cooperatively with manufacturing plants, distributors, engineering, supply chain, procurement, R&D, and quality assurance in the transfer of new products to commercialization. - Drives new product development projects from ideation to commercialization as assigned. - Apply scientific skill to solve complex problems utilizing knowledge of Safe Foods & Fortrex customers and markets. - Prepares and tests chemical product formulations utilizing appropriate SOPs and test methods. - Communicate with field staff and Technical Services on the improvement of existing sanitation/intervention formulations & allocation systems. - Evaluate and approve new raw materials and raw material vendors following appropriate SOPs. - Review and author technical reports, process and packaging specifications, recommend product quality enhancements, and commercialization materials. - Independently manage multiple concurrent projects from conception through commercialization with minimal supervision. - Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to plant and field personnel on formulation-related issues. - Contribute subject-matter expertise during customer-facing technical discussions as needed. - Perform any other related duties as required or assigned. We need to keep these as bullet points. Ensure we preserve the exact phrasing? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the content but we can format as list items. Slight rephrasing may be considered summarizing? Safer to keep the sentences essentially same, maybe minor punctuation changes. We'll output each asAbout the role
Are you looking to join a growing company? With 2 production locations and plants located from coast to coast, we are looking for a professional, friendly, and experienced Chemist II to join our team! In this role, you will bring a solid technical foundation and proven experience to independently drive formulation and innovation projects.
Leader in food safety solutions for both contract sanitation and chemistry in the food processing industry. Over 10,000 dedicated team members across North America. Corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA with team members working in over 250 plants throughout North America. Over 50+ years of experience in creating long-lasting partnerships. Our Mission: We protect the food supply by eliminating risks so families everywhere can eat without fear. Protect What Matters: We are in service of safety at every step, ensuring the health of everyone is central to all we do – from plant team members to consumers. Deliver On Our Promises: We speak honestly and are dedicated to doing the right thing by upholding ethical standards and following through on our commitments to our teams, our customers, and our business. Win as a Team: We believe in the power of collaboration, uniting our diverse strengths while working hand-in-hand with our team members and customers to unlock potential and achieve stronger results together. Advance a Safer Future: We are committed to innovating more effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient food safety solutions to develop a safer world