What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chemist position at Belcan?
Job Title: Chemist I
Location: Springdale PA USA 15144
Duration: 12 Months Contract (Potential Temp to Perm)
Pay Rate: $20/hr. - $25/hr. (Depending on Experience)
Shift Time: 1st Shift (M-F; 7:30am-4pm)
The qualifications for the Development Chemist role are:
- Bachelor's Degree in a Chemistry, Polymer Science, Coatings Science, or Chemical Engineering
- Prior knowledge of coatings formulation is preferred 0-2 years
Key Responsibilities:
- Respond to color match requests and color design work for wood flooring and other building material customers.
- Maintain new or alternative pigments and/or raw materials to enable supply security and mitigate production disruptions. Design and execute the experiments for the raw material testing.
- Collaborate with sales team for product attributes and build strong working relationships with new customers to increase potential business opportunities.
- Interact with production to investigate product quality problems, resolve root cause, assemble, and analyze data and implement corrective action to reduce or eliminate cause.
- Communicate and ensure recordkeeping through written/verbal summaries, reports, and presentations to both internal and external customers.
- With feedback from technical service, address customer complaints/concerns through root cause analysis and/or formulation changes.
- Through experimental design, manipulates formulation variables to enhance UV cure coatings primarily for the flooring market.
- Level I: 0-3 years.
- Knowledgeable of chemistry/coatings technology and scientific test methods.
- Performs independently by planning and executing specific phases of a project, subject to direction of a senior exempt employee.
- Develops understanding of fundamental principles and root cause analysis.
- Uses these principles to design experiments and BPI tools that effectively lead to problem solving.
- Provides direct support to field technical problems; travel as needed.
Salary : $20 - $25