S&T Product Development Chemist

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to all applicable environmental, health, and safety regulations, standards, and policies to help eliminate health hazards and prevent work stoppage and time loss due to accidents.
• Drive projects against set milestones and deliver results.
• Cook up and test new and existing products within the latex paint team.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to resolve issues.
• Work closely with product management, manufacturing, and procurement organizations to develop new products and maintain existing product lines through formulation and product optimization.
• Support manufacturing to ensure quality products are delivered to customers.

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent scientific degree required.
• A minimum of 0-3 years of experience working in a lab setting.
• Previous experience in architectural, waterborne coatings, or other coatings technology and/or coatings manufacturing is preferred.
• Familiarity with lab and production scale processing equipment, as well as process oriented and problem-solving skills is essential for success.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in particular) is required.
• Strong Excel skills and the ability make professional level presentations is desired.
• Knowledge of architectural coatings, and/or SAP is a plus.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.