R&D- Chemist I

This Chemist I position in our Coil division within the Site Support group will be responsible for a variety of exciting activities related to troubleshooting, stabilizing, and correcting external customer complaints, batch problems from manufacturing, and quality related endeavors. This position will be reporting remotely to management.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

• Working within the Coil Site Support Team and technical groups to investigate and resolve customer complaints for Coil High-Performance products through prioritizing, executing and analysis of experiments and tests with clear and accurate results.
• Providing timely and accurate data to help resolve field complaints, raw material issues, manufacturing problems, and support existing and new product development.
• Work on detailed longer-term projects with the quality excellence teams to help drive high quality internal process changes.
• Display knowledge of the use of chemicals, substrate preparation and use instruments commonly found in a lab environment.
• Responsible for inputting data, data analysis and technical documentation daily into lab books or a database. Provides laboratory reports to customers and internal leadership teams.
• Lead internal conference calls and participate virtually in external customer meetings.
• Functioning under minimal supervision and will lead individual and small group projects.
• Collaborate with technical leaders to enhance new product development and performance consistency and quality.
• Utilizing advanced technologies to innovatively troubleshoot issues which consumers can perceive and will desire.
• Performing basic paint making processes that meet manufactures specifications.
• Performing coating reformulations for Coil and Extrusion applications and evaluating physical/performance testing methods.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status).
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math Field
• Software knowledge in Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to determine the difference between colors so you can correctly tint paint to the colors desired by customers.
• Minimum 1 year of lab experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Polymers and Coatings
• 2 or more years industrial coatings Chemist lab experience
• Experience working with DOE, Minitab, Product Vision, Navigator

Travel Requirements: 15%