Large and growing company with multiple manufacturing locations has an outstanding opportunity available for a Polymer Chemist with experience in analysis, formulation, and technical application of polyurethanes, adhesives, plastics, and polymer materials for a manufacturer of specialty products.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and evaluate formulations for new and existing products including, but not limited to products made from polyurethanes, products using adhesive coatings, and molded plastics.
• Apply statistical and analytical methods to establish product validity, cost effectiveness, and manufacturability of products to specification.
• Perform lab bench work, use analytical instruments, and document formulation process; provide scale-up activities of final design, establish raw materials, production process, and finalized production specification, ensure formulations comply with quality objectives.
• Create material and application process specifications.
• Using customer insights, help design and develop new products (or improvements to existing products) that provide solutions for customer applications.
• Troubleshoot root cause customer issues, provide technical support on product application with customers.
• Develop and validate current and new manufacturing processes, research new technologies, equipment, and processes to ensure manufacturability of new products and enhanced formulations.
• Work closely with 3rd party suppliers and consultants of prototypes, materials, testing, and conformance approvals. Work cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, customers, and suppliers to ensure reliable formulation and commercialization process.
• Production technical support – assists production on an as needed bases to resolve technical issue around supplier issues, raw materials or equipment and processing issues.
• Support field testing on products at customer sites; provide raw data analysis on new production formulation to ensure application and validity.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Chemistry (BS, Masters or Doctorate).
• Seven plus years of experience in conducting and directing work on polymer chemistries.
• Product and process development.
• Supervising and directing technicians.
• Comfortable with having direct customer contact / interaction.
• Experience with industrial manufacturing processes.
• Working knowledge of the regulatory landscape related to the use, manufacture, sale and disposal of chemicals and products with a chemistry component.
• Project management – internal & external.
• Project documentation and creating reports.
• Knowledge of prudent lab practices.
• Some programming experience a plus.