R&D- Associate Chemist

This Associate Chemist position in our General Industrial division within the Quality Excellence-Site Support group at the Grove City, OH site. This position 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 remote 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 closely with team to investigate and resolve customer complaints for General Industrial Powder 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
* Display a basic working knowledge of the use of chemicals, raw materials, 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.
* Functioning under minimal supervision and will lead individual or group projects. Product development and/or enhanced with consistent in performance and quality.
* Utilizing advanced technologies to innovatively troubleshoot issues which consumer can perceive and will desire.
* Performing basic paint making processes for production of Powder finished goods, meets manufactures specifications
* Performing basic coating reformulations, applications, and physical/performance testing methods specifically related Powder products
* Experience with Powder development and manufacturing processes
* 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 a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math field.
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Experience working with DOE, Minitab, Product Vision, Navigator, Microsoft Access, Excel, Word.
• 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Polymers and Coatings
• 1 Year industrial powder coatings experience- either manufacturing or formulation
• Computer knowledge for basic inputting, communication, and data analysis

Travel Requirements: 10%