Specialty Additives, Chemist / Technician for Industrial Applications

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Specialty Additives, Chemist / Technician for Industrial Applications to join our Specialty Additives business unit at our Wilmington DE research center.

This is a significant role within the Company and the specialty additives innovation function and will report to the North American Performance Specialties Group Leader.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:



* assist in developing leading-edge chemical solutions to industrial specialty additives, particularly specialty coating and ink applications, involving a wide range of chemistry types


* contribute to formulation development and testing of materials for industrial applications


* testing includes property and application testing, formulation development, method development and new product development, where formulations are created, tested, and data generated, recorded and interpreted


* perform customer service studies, utilizing wide range of application methodology to determine performance or properties; with Sales team


* participate in multiple research projects


* execute, analyze experiments, communicate results


* work with members of multi-disciplinary teams to assist in achieving targets


* work sales team and communicate results

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:



* 5+ years R&D experience in industrial specialty chemicals


* good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel programs required.


* looking for personnel with high level organizational skills, good communication (verbal and written), good laboratory and math skills,


* independent, motivated learner and performer



* have strength in executing experimentation 


* ability to work in multidisciplinary project teams

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:



* 2 yr science degree minimum preferred


* laboratory experience in coating formulations and ink testing, application testing and development (coatings, inks, adhesives, surfactant ) is preferred


* experience and familiarity with water, solvent and UV based systems and properties


* prefer experience in technology areas of specialty coatings, inks, or adhesives


* hands on experience running industry standard tests

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