What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Service Scientist Coatings & Surfactants position at CPS, Inc.?
Base salary $130,000-$180,000
Role is remote with travel (50-75%)
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, PTO, 401k match, wellness programs.
Join a global leader with a long-standing reputation for innovation and sustainability, offering strong career growth, excellent benefits, and a collaborative, people-focused culture. This is a high-visibility, customer-facing technical role where you’ll own projects, solve real-world formulation challenges, and work closely with R&D and commercial teams to drive impact across diverse industrial markets.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Role is remote with travel (50-75%)
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, PTO, 401k match, wellness programs.
Join a global leader with a long-standing reputation for innovation and sustainability, offering strong career growth, excellent benefits, and a collaborative, people-focused culture. This is a high-visibility, customer-facing technical role where you’ll own projects, solve real-world formulation challenges, and work closely with R&D and commercial teams to drive impact across diverse industrial markets.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary technical contact for customer R&D, production, and technical teams, providing hands-on support and resolving complex formulation and application challenges
- Lead and manage a pipeline of technical opportunities, driving customer projects from concept through implementation and commercialization
- Build and maintain strong technical relationships with customers through regular on-site engagement and proactive support
- Collaborate with internal R&D teams to identify gaps, modify existing products, and support new product development based on customer needs
- Partner with commercial and marketing teams to develop technical value propositions, application data, and tools that support business growth
- Create and deliver technical training, presentations, and sales enablement materials to support internal and external stakeholders
- Translate technical capabilities into clear business value, supporting adoption of products and solutions in the market
- Monitor industry trends, competitive activity, raw material changes, and regulatory developments to inform strategy and positioning
- Coordinate with cross-functional global and regional teams to deliver tailored solutions and ensure successful project execution
- Strengthen market presence by positioning solutions effectively within key industrial segments and application
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related scientific discipline (MS/PhD preferred)
- 8-10 years of hands-on experience in formulation, application development, and technical service
- Strong background in emulsification, dispersing, defoaming, and rheology modification
- Experience working with surfactants, water-soluble polymers, chelates, and acid-based catalysts
- Industry experience across one or more of the following: emulsion polymer latex, aqueous coatings, pulp & paper, textile, water treatment, chemical processing, or related industrial markets
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and solve complex technical challenges across multiple applications
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a customer-focused mindset
- Commercial awareness with the ability to translate technical performance into customer value
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently (approximately 50-75%)
- Must be located within reasonable proximity to the East Coast or adjacent regions
- If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Tory Mack at tmack@cps4jobs.com
Salary : $130,000 - $180,000