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Technical Service Specialist, Tupelo Mississippi

BASF · New Providence, NJ · 1 mo ago
Product$80k–$95k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate like EEO, privacy statement, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. Key info: - Title: Technical Service Specialist (but we don't repeat as heading) - Location: Remote / Homebased in Tupelo Mississippi or nearby - Pay Range: $80,000 - $95,000 (also later repeated) - About the role: description: "We are looking for a Technical Service Specialist to join our Surface Treatment team in Tupelo Mississippi. New finish, Proven expertise. Bolder ambition. If you're someone who inspires others, owns their impact, and wants to elevate what they do, you'll fit right in. Until July 1, our business was part of BASF. As part of the current transition, all job listings and the application process are still hosted on the BASF platform and therefore fully presented in BASF branding. Please do not be confused by this: All roles are positions at Surventis, and your application will be submitted to us. At Surventis, we go beyond the surface - in everything we do. We put customers at the center, think one step ahead, and develop solutions that create real value and lasting partnerships. We inspire each other to think further, take ownership of our work, and constantly push to elevate what's possible. If you bring your full self, challenge the obvious answer, and want to grow with a team that means it - this is your place." That's about the role. - Responsibilities: list of duties: "As a Technical Service Specialist (TSS) you will have responsibility that leads and coordinates all technical, purchasing, inventory, reporting activities, manage assigned projects, and respond to customer needs and complaints for our customer accounts within your territory. This position offers an incentive bonus plan, company car, laptop, phone, and all travel expenses covered by the company; travel for this role is 50% daily travel within your territory with occasional overnight travel. As a Technical Service Specialist, you will... Be the first in line for technical support with customers; providing in-depth technical service to key customers. Foster a Safety mindset acting as a safety ambassador for your customers. Complete all required Surventis compliance trainings, complete and pass all required technical training utilizing the CL3 platform, in person live training and adjacent technical seminars. Train plant personnel, line audits, startup of new processes, troubleshoot problems, continuous improvement, coordinate test work being done for the plant and participate in plant functions, such as system clean outs, team audit meetings, process analysis, and inventory management where necessary. Plan service visits with the purpose of bringing value to the customer (not just pinks and blues). The goal is to develop and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders. Communicate with a written service report utilizing clear purpose driven comments of action items and findings. Load service reports Salesforce and notify all key stakeholders. Participate in business reviews to continually reinforce our value proposition while keeping our customers out of the zone of indifference. Set up each account with the proper process instructions for the chemical process supplied by Surventis. Educate customers on proper handling of chemicals, reagents, and sample submission procedures. Assist & facilitate the installation, and troubleshoot and train proper use of process equipment provided by Surventis to the account. Look for opportunities to add business whenever possible, to be done in concert with the Technical Sales Representative (our best leads come from our customers)." Also later: "Ability to lift 50lbs and stand for long periods of time. Travel for this position is 40% with occasional overnight travel within your territory." There's some inconsistency: earlier says 50% daily travel, later says 40% travel. We'll keep both? Might be contradictory but we preserve all info. - Requirements: maybe "Bachelors Degree in Chemistry of Chemical Engineering is preferred. We are also open to high school diploma with more experience. Minimum of 1 year of technical experience with pretreatment, coatings, surface treatment, metalworking and adjacent industry applications is preferred. We are also open to fresh undergraduates with chemistry background." - Qualifications: maybe similar to requirements? Could combine. - Skills: list: "Ability to learn new skills and techniques associated with different product applications and chemical programs. (Products include metalworking fluids, paint pretreatment, e-coat, etc.) Ability to work autonomously, perform job responsibilities, and make consequential decisions without the need for continual direct supervision. Understanding of the chemical process, knowledge of Manufacturing Plant operations and the importance of safety. Technical expertise regarding products, specifications, processes, operations, testing, and data collection. Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills and analytical experience for testing and technical evaluation. Strong inventory management/control and product ordering is required. Relationship management experience, building and strengthening relationships with customer's technical department. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Basic computer skills are required. (MS Office Products, Salesforce, etc.) Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external teammates (Surventis and customers) to execute established account strategy and achieve established goals." - Benefits: "This position offers an incentive bonus plan, company car, laptop, phone, and all travel expenses covered by the company; travel for this role is 50% daily travel within your territory with occasional overnight travel." Also maybe "company car, laptop, phone". Also "incentive bonus plan". Also "all travel expenses covered". Also maybe "company car, laptop, phone". Also "travel for this position is 40% with occasional overnight travel within your territory." Might be duplicate. - Pay: "Pay Range: $80,000 - $95 ,000" (note space before comma). Also later: "Pay transparency Surventis is committed to pay transparency practices. The competitive Pay Range for this role is $80,000 - $95,000. Actual pay will be determined based on education, certifications, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law." - Schedule: maybe travel percentages? Not exactly schedule. Could include travel % as schedule? The instruction: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to include Schedule only if posting actually states schedule. The posting mentions travel percentages but not explicit work schedule (e.g., full-time, shift). It mentions travel for this role is 50% daily travel within your territory with occasional overnight travel. Also later says travel for this position is 40% with occasional overnight travel within your territory. That's more about travel, not schedule. Could treat as Schedule? Might be considered schedule of travel. But the instruction says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state travel percentages, which could be considered schedule? Not sure. The example headings include Schedule, but we should only include if posting has real specific content for it. The posting does mention travel percentages, which could be considered schedule (i.e., travel schedule). I'd include a Schedule section with the travel percentages. But we also have Benefits section already covering travel expenses etc. Might be overlapping. However we can keep Benefits for incentive bonus, company car, laptop, phone, travel expenses covered. Schedule for travel percentages. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. Must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove Privacy statement, Pay transparency (but we need Pay range, we can keep that but not the transparency statement). Remove Equal employment opportunities paragraph. Remove "Privacy statement" etc. Remove "Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis." That's maybe boilerplate? It's a requirement but could be considered substantive? It's a work authorization requirement. Might be considered a requirement. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. Work authorization is not EEO, it's a legal requirement. Might keep as a requirement? But it's somewhat generic. However we can keep it under Requirements maybe. But we need to preserve ALL substantive information. So we should keep that line. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's extract substantive pieces. Let's list sections: About the role: paragraph(s) describing company, mission, etc. Responsibilities: bullet list of duties. Requirements: education/experience requirements. Qualifications: maybe same as requirements? Could combine but we can separate: Qualifications could be "Bachelors Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering preferred; high school diploma with more experience also considered; minimum 1 year technical experience..." etc. Skills: list of abilities. Benefits: incentive bonus plan, company car, laptop, phone, all travel expenses covered. Pay: Pay range $80,000 - $95,000; actual pay based on education, certifications, experience, etc. Schedule: travel percentages (50% daily travel, occasional overnight; also 40% travel). Might combine. We also have location: Remote / Homebased in Tupelo Mississippi or nearby. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section? Not in headings list. Could embed in About the role paragraph. We must not invent sections. We'll include only those with content. Now produce HTML fragment: use

for each section heading, then content:

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  • for lists. We need to ensure we don't include any markdown fences. Let's craft. About the role: combine paragraphs. Responsibilities: list items. Requirements: list items. Qualifications: maybe list items. Skills: list items. Benefits: list items. Pay:

    with range and note. Schedule:

    with travel percentages. Let's write. Check for duplication: Ensure we don't repeat same info multiple times unnecessarily but preserve all. Might be okay to have some overlap but we should try to avoid duplicate sentences. However instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep all info, but we can rephrase? It says do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Summarizing away detail is not allowed. So we must keep the detail, not summarize. That means we cannot condense multiple bullet points into a summary; we need to keep each distinct piece. However we can combine similar items if they are exactly same? Probably better to keep each bullet as separate

  • preserving the original phrasing. Thus we need to extract each distinct duty, requirement, skill, benefit, etc. Let's go through the text and pull out each bullet. Original responsibilities paragraph includes many sentences separated by semicolons and periods. We'll split into logical bullets. Responsibilities list: - Leads and coordinates all technical, purchasing, inventory, reporting activities. - Manages assigned projects. - Responds to customer needs and complaints for customer accounts within your territory. - Provides incentive bonus plan, company car, laptop, phone, and all travel expenses covered by the company. (Actually that's benefits, but appears in responsibilities paragraph.) - Travel for this role is 50% daily travel within your territory with occasional overnight travel. - Be the first in line for technical support with customers; providing in-depth technical service to key customers. - Foster a Safety mindset acting as a safety ambassador for your customers. - Complete all required Surventis compliance trainings. - Complete and pass all required technical training utilizing the CL3 platform, in person live training and adjacent technical seminars. - Train plant personnel. - Conduct line audits. - Handle startup of new processes. - Troubleshoot problems. - Drive continuous improvement. - Coordinate test work being done for the plant. - Participate in plant functions, such as system clean outs, team audit meetings, process analysis, and inventory management where necessary. - Plan service visits with the purpose of bringing value to the customer (not just pinks and blues). - Develop and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders. - Communicate with a written service

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