General Industrial Coatings Chemist

Mid-sized and long-standing specialty chemical company is looking for an experienced industrial coating formulator for a Research and Development Chemist position.

If you’re looking to join a stable company with opportunities for promotion in the near future, this could be a great opportunity for you!

• Provides technical support for both internal business units and external customer
• Creates technical documentation, reports, formal letters and emails, and presentations
• Directly assists production operations with problems that could stall production, delay customer order, or result in non-conforming product
• Formulate new products and maintains existing products. Evaluates new raw materials and potential vendors
• Develops, facilitates, and executes research and development activities including but not limited to formula entry and creating SDS
• Ensures compliance to quality standards; assist in quality control when necessary
• Develop production procedures for new products or formula modifications
• Formulate various coating systems and set up production procedure
• Effectively interacts with customers, internal sales, and suppliers
• Performs other duties as assigned by Technical Director

Technical Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) in physical sciences from four-year college or university
• Two to 5 years’ experience with alkyd, 2 component epoxy and urethane coatings
• Proficient on database software, development software, inventory, spreadsheets, and word processing
• Experience in scaling up paint products from the lab to manufacturing
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