CITechnical Service Chemist
Listed pay for BS-level Technical Service / Sales roles on Crosslinked center on $111k (42 with a salary).
Lead technical service projects, formulate waterborne coatings, support customers and sales.
Worth knowing
Why it is interesting. Own technical service projects from formulation to customer presentation, with conference publication opportunities.
Might not be for you. Requires 7-10 years experience; some travel and customer-facing responsibilities.
Heads-up: Mostly boilerplate text
Core polymer rolewater-based coatings formulator; coatings R&D; formulation development; waterborne coatings formulation and development; waterborne acrylic emulsions and polyurethane dispersions
- Seniority
- Mid-level
- Work
- On-site
- Type
- Full-time
- Degree
- BS
- Experience
- 7–10 yrs
- Industry
- Coatings
- Role
- Technical Service / Sales
Role details
Mid-sized specialty chemical company is looking for an experienced water-based coatings formulator. If you are a chemist with expertise in coatings R&D and like managing projects and working with customers, this could be a great opportunity for you! Company offers excellent benefits with competitive pay; great opportunities for growth!
Duties
- Assist the Sales team in maintaining and growing new business through focusing on customer needs and requirements
- Identify technology gaps and provide technical insight to R&D to develop new products for new and existing customers
- Lead technical service projects, including formulation development, design of experiments, use of in-house testing equipment, presentation of project results to technical group / customers and make recommendations on project direction
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of coatings formulations and maintain knowledge of competitive technologies and market trends
- Assist customers with problem analysis, batch qualification, troubleshooting
- Demonstrate knowledge of and support (HSE) Health, Safety and Environmental programs
- Establish positive and communicative relationships with Sales, Applications, Quality Assurance, R&D groups and Production
- Maintain understandable, comprehensive and detailed records of Technical Service projects; effectively collect, communicate and manage information and data flow
- Key technical interface between the business and external customers; responsible for applications role in business / product development cycle
- Promote products at technical conferences by giving presentations and write publications for industry journals
- Possible annual overseas travel
Salary
$80,000 - $100,000
Benefits
M/D/V/L/401K
Technical Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Coatings Science or Polymer Science required
- A minimum of 7-10 years of experience with waterborne coatings formulation and development for architectural and industrial applications
- Strong knowledge of coatings for wood, metal and concrete substrates required
- General knowledge of waterborne acrylic emulsions and polyurethane dispersions
- General knowledge of air dry, radiation cure and 2K systems
- If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Devin Heffernan at [email protected].
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