Formulation Scientist - Thermoset Polymers
The Formulation Scientist – Thermoset Polymers supports the development and commercialization of a wide variety of composite materials and processes to drive new profitable business growth by working closely with others internally in the Research and Development Center and Business Units as well as externally with vendors, customers, and potential customers. The candidate should have a deep understanding of the chemical and physical properties of materials and how they behave and interact. Formulation Scientist – Thermoset Polymers Responsibilities:
- Drive and independently lead projects associated with thermoset composites, including new product development, study of material interactions, and fundamental resin chemistry
- Work closely with all business units to align with future strategic company goals
- Lead and support process changes, raw material changes, and quality issues related to existing and new products across multiple manufacturing locations
- Complete technical reports with analysis and findings
- Analyze experimental data, summarize key findings, and report at regular team meetings
- Work with the sales team to leverage technical findings and product properties for strategic share gains
- Establish relationships with customers to capture VOC and product application insight
- Stay abreast of state of the art in the composites industry to seek out new materials, ideas, and concepts
- Utilizing these state-of-the-art ideas develop new to market, innovative prototypes with potential for scale-up commercialization
- Work on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical or industry knowledge
- Minimum of 8 years of experience with materials development specifically in composites, resin formulation, or other polymer applications. Significant experience in project leadership
- BS in Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering or other suitable technical field required, advanced degree preferred
- Communicate and work cross-functionally with other disciplines to understand materials requirements and provide feedback based on materials expertise
- Entrepreneurial in nature
- Extensive hands-on experience with mechanical testing and physical and chemical properties of material
- Experience with composites manufacturing preferred, including but not limited to: open molding and close molding, pultrusion, extrusion, injection molding, compression molding
- Formulation and compounding with a wide variety of materials, including but not limited to: thermoset resins, thermoplastics, fibers, films and coatings, nanocomposites, composites additives, “Green” materials and processes including recycling
- Experience with commercial continuous manufacturing processes
- Process development experience, including small scale to large commercial scale
- Experience with Matlab, Minitab, Python, R, or other programming tools
- Development of intellectual property
- Desirable technical skills other than strong polymer chemistry skills include: analytical instrumentation, statistics, including design of experiment, mathematical modeling methods, including finite element analysis.
- Travel 15-20%
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