Job Specifications
Want to grow your career within the manufacturing space? LaSalle Network is partnered with a growing multi-million-dollar manufacturing firm looking to hire a Formulation Scientist - Thermoset Polymers located in Bolingbrook, IL. This position is 100% on-site.
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
Formulation Scientist - Thermoset Polymers Requirements
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%
Thank you,
Kelly Wagner
LaSalle Network
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