R&D- Chemist II (Wood)

Working as both an individual contributor and collaborative team member, the Chemist applies knowledge of chemicals, raw materials, substrates, and analytical instruments to deliver accurate, timely, and effective solutions. The role partners closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, Commercialization, and Management teams to ensure products meet performance expectations, regulatory requirements, and customer needs. 

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.
 

•    Contribute to the assessment, development, reformulation, quality, maintenance, and enhancement of products through planning, executing, and analysis of experiments with clear and accurate results.   
•    Accountable for the solutions technical problems product or process 
•    Learn and retain significant knowledge and use of chemicals, raw materials, substrates, and instruments.  
•    Ability to complete individual work on simple projects with minimal direction. 
•    Accountable for providing timely and accurate solutions to company problems of simple to moderate complexity and to develop methods of minimal complexity, as an individual contributor. 
•    This position will develop towards “expert/trainer” status in at least one broad area or a related specialized area. 
•    Adhere to company safety guidelines at all times 
•    Work with others individuals in the laboratory to understand formulation and processes. Fill out scale up documents pertaining to own and team members’ new OR modified formulations. 
•    Test products to industry specifications and write professionals reports to the field. 
 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
•    Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)
•    Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math field.  
•    Must be at least 18 years of age. 
•    3 years of coatings formulation and application experience
•    Computer knowledge and data analysis 
•    Excellent math knowledge  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
•    Degree in Polymers and Coatings 
•    Wood coating experience. 
•    Formulation knowledge of solvent borne, waterborne, UV/LED-UV, and EB cured coating systems.

Travel Requirements: 10%

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H-1B visa.

Successful candidate will be required to sign an Employee Restrictive Covenant Agreement where permitted by law.

This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.