Job Details
Job Description
8 months Contract
Overview
This role will have the individual conducting both hands-on lab formulation and applications development work to provide customer solutions and drive growth in company s commercial roofing portfolio. Primary responsibilities include executing independent short-term or subsets of larger projects, conducting intermediate level technical analyses such as benchmarking and root cause analysis, as well as limited scope value engineering of current and scale-up of new products. This position will report into the (Director/ Technology Manager)and as part of complex technical programs, will collaborate with Senior Scientists and occasionally be expected to coordinate lab work of technicians.
Responsibilities
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Performs analyses, tests, and development of new or updated formulas that require an intermediate understanding of coatings & adhesives chemistries, product lines, and materials.
- Adjusts product formulas, assists with raw material evaluation and selection, pilots new batch tests; assists with the development and scale up of production formulas.
- Completes field fitness for use technical application tests of products to validate product/formulation changes/recommendations.
- Serves as a team member for projects that are complex in nature and are generally subsets of larger initiatives and supports product development, quality control, manufacturing processes, and other operations.
- Develop understanding of market drivers and needs through - benchmarking of competitive products & collaborating with sources on key customer insights, new technologies and external trends.
- Ability to design, conduct and direct laboratory experiments, interpretation of results and designing of follow-up experiments
- Interface and engage with concerns from plants, quality control, customers and other internal and external parties regarding development/improvement of products, processes, quality
- May assist with general project management, timeline development, and other project requirements.
- May serve as a lead to technicians or support personnel involved in the research project.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor s degree in chemistry , material science (or similar field).