R&D Polymer Scientist

INVISTA is seeking a technology driven Research & Development Polymer Scientist.

This role will be physically based out of our Texas Technology Center (TTC) in Katy, TX.

The selected individual will focus on solving market-back needs and continually developing new capabilities consistent with their innate abilities to deliver against the evolving strategies of our integrated business team.

Our Nylon Polymer Research and Development team is focused on discovering, evaluating, and commercializing innovative solutions to the world's toughest challenges, resulting in superior value creation for our business and our customers.

With today's ever-increasing rate of change, we are transforming our R&D to be a long-term competitive advantage for INVISTA.

Utilizing our state-of-the-art development facilities in the US and China, this role will focus on identifying and delivering innovative technical solutions to our global business and manufacturing facilities.

Our diverse, cross-functional R&D team will drive value through disciplined application of the Koch innovation framework, critical economic thinking, and differentiated principled entrepreneurship.

What You Will Do


* Expand INVISTA's competitive advantage through polymer chemistry and polymerization technology innovation, resulting in increased product differentiation and superior business results


* Identify industry unmet needs and potential market opportunities based on PA66 value propositions to ensure INVISTA's innovation and product development efforts are focused on solving meaningful problems with significant value creation potential.


* Propose creative, divergent solutions to solve prioritized market unmet needs, leveraging INVISTA's competitive advantage in PA66 polymer chemistry.


* Drive program momentum through the organization and the industry - identify killer questions, design technical and market experiments to evaluate critical hypotheses, build relationships across the PA66 value chain, and execute programs with discipline


* Collaborate with a diverse global team, including Operations, Commercial, and Marketing, to advance against INVISTA's vision of being the most competitive nylon business in the world


* Develop and leverage the broader technical community, collaborating with INVISTA's Polypropylene business, other Koch companies, and external organizations where profitable


* Understand our core polymerization technology and our customers' downstream processes to support base business opportunities, including global operational excellence and commercial scale up of new products


* Apply curiosity, urgency, and a rapid experimentation mentality to design and conduct experiments against technical killer questions using our advanced development facilities at the Texas Technology Center (TTC) and Asia Innovation Center (AIC)


* Create an enduring and transformational competitive advantage for INVISTA through application of strong intell...