Chemist

Seeking multiple Chemists for a fast-growing global paint and coatings company.

The role involves customer-focused lab work as assigned by supervisor, including paint and panel preparation, customer correlation work, record keeping, and other customer/product support activities as established by supervisor. This is a technical position with occasional travel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Customer Focus: Travel with other personnel to support customer needs. Demonstrate basic understanding of internal procedures to address customer requests. Adjust schedule as management requests in order to meet customer expectations and timelines. Relay results directly to field technical service reps with management review. Basic customer interaction required with assistance.
• Business Process: Use existing business processes to transition paint from Lab to Plant to Customer, including RMIF, TSCA/DSL, NMI, Test Lab/Spec Testing, Formula Holds, SAP, AS/400, EDS, Mass Change, Lab Notebooks, Customer Idios, Customer Correlations, and the Complaint Process. Requires detailed understanding of these processes and independent use in order to move tasks forward, including completion with a focus on timeliness.
• Move waste from the generation point to the 90-day Storage Area
• Properly close and label waste containers using our client's procedures

Training Provided:

• General Employee Training (Annual)
• Hazardous Waste / RCRA Training (Annual)
• DOT General Awareness Training (Every 3 years)

Required Qualifications:

• College degree in chemistry or other science field, with 2 years of relevant experience
• Paint or coatings experience is highly preferred
• Willing and able to travel and work overtime as required
• Strong work ethic, able to work well with minimal supervision
• Adapts well to priority shifts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical Skills: General understanding of formula raw materials and the general function of each component. Recognizes technical issues, applies basic understanding of coatings chemistry while working with supervisor to analyze project results, and establishes a path forward for the project. Contributes ideas for internal and external problem solving, uses product loading charts for formulating new colors, and may have occasional direct customer contact.
• Communication Skills (oral and written): Communicates technical information and project results to chemists, group managers, and the Technical Director. Communicates frequently with in-house representatives at assigned accounts and occasionally visits customers along with field technical service reps. Writes monthly reports to manager, keeps detailed records of all project formulations, results, and analyses in a laboratory notebook, and writes detailed laboratory reports with conclusions, analysis, and supporting data for internal and external review. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and uses these tools to clearly communicate ideas and data.

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