Process Safety Lab Scientist

Responsibilities

• Work closely with process and plant engineers and quality and regulatory personnel to generate material and process hazard data.
• Maintain and calibrate lab equipment and instrumentation. Diagnose and repair faulty instrumentation, as needed.
• Keep detailed records of experiments, interpret test data and write test reports.
• Follow all safety policies and procedures, performing all duties in a safe manner.
• Design and perform non-routine experiments to obtain calorimetric and manometric process safety data related to run-away reactions.
• Develop an understanding of testing methodologies, enabling design of custom testing protocols.
• Obtain the problem-solving skills to identify causal factors for anomalies in test data.
• Process and evaluate test requests and incoming chemicals and samples, performing sample preparation and pre-test safety reviews.
• Maintain inventories of chemicals and spare parts. Ensure timely disposal of waste to keep work area clean and organized.
• Maintain detailed inventory of igniters and generate monthly NJ explosives use report.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or chemical engineering.
• Ability to work in highly collaborative, cross-functional environment involving global customers, labs, and manufacturing sites.
• Understanding of chemical principles, good lab skills, neat working habits and excellent oral and written communication.
• Good time management and organizational skills for supporting multiple projects.
• Authorization to work in the United States.
• Mechanical skills to work with common tools and small diameter tubing and tube fittings.
• Ability to lift and move safely equipment and materials weighing up to 40 pounds.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of work experience in process safety testing, analytical testing or quality control.
• Knowledge of electrical principles and pressure and temperature measurement.
• Experience working with compressed gases.
• Experience in particle size analysis, moisture analysis, particle size reduction (milling and sieving), adiabatic calorimetry and Dust Hazard Characterization testing (20L sphere, MIE, MAIT, LIT, etc.).
• Knowledge of ASTM and EU combustible dust testing standards.
• Understanding of UN Tests for flammable solids, self-heating solids and oxidizing solids.
• Knowledge of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry.