Senior Polymers Scientist - Carlisle, United States - MyKelly

Description

Senior Polymers Scientist

Kelly Science has a great dire hire opportunity in Carlisle PA for a Senior Polymers Scientist with one of our growing clients focused on construction product manufacturing and research and development. This amazing opportunity provides relocation assistance, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement and competitive benefits.

Shift: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Salary: $100,000-$130,000/year

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leading research activities on new and existing products as well as identifying and implementing new technologies within the PVC business group.
• Leading multiple Innovation and New Product Development projects critical to grow the PVC roofing business.
• Fully develop and manage the technical schedule for projects from ideation through scale up to launch, including key tactical items for other functional areas
• Utilizing advance material characterization techniques to establish structure property relationships of polymer materials.
• Advance single ply PVC technologies to develop new products, reduce total system costs, improve performance, and establish sustained competitive advantages.
• Collaborating with sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, warranty departments and staff on defined project priorities, project scope and future development directions.
• Publish technical reports and conduct technical presentations.
• Champion safe work practices and positively contribute to company's safety culture.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Polymer Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering +10 years of experience in PVC formulation and processing is required.
• Leverage a combination of external literature, internal technical know-how, and laboratory experimentation to identify viable technologies for next generation of PVC single ply membrane.
• Drive innovation – identify and employ the latest techniques to achieve project goals (analytical and screening techniques, DOE, etc.)
• Experience in the development of plastic products and their associated processing technologies such as extrusion and calendaring are a plus.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of the physical, chemical, and mechanical behavior of the thermoplastic polymers
• Knowledge to analyze data, understand structure property relationships of polymers and conduct relative testing and evaluations.
• Must have 3+ years of experiences in material analysis of polymeric materials with DSC, TGA, DMA, and TMA
• Experiences in chemical analysis with HPLC, GPC, GC-MS, FTIR, and NMR will be preferred.
• Training or experience on the design of experiments, especially as applied to development of chemical formulations.

What happens next:

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