Lab Technician, R&D

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 Lab Technician to join our Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P business at our Wilmington, DE location.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Corporate Research and Development function.

This position will report to an Engineer.

The candidate will work with Principal Investigators and Technicians in the Process Technology group, with a focus on hands-on fine tuning of recipes or equipment to make new products developed by the research groups.

The objective is to develop a process to prepare for scale up at pilot or industrial scales.

The ideal candidate must be familiar with laboratory and pilot processes and be able to set up the necessary equipment.

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


* Laboratory/Pilot equipment setup to make new products (including preparation of procedures & safety reviews)


* Optimization of recipes and processes to meet the scale up criteria.


* Collecting data, keeping laboratory notebooks, and contributing to reports covering results and recommendations

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


* Minimum two-year associate degree in chemical operations or equivalent experience


* Knowledge of general synthetic methods and techniques


* Ability to work in a team and manage multiple tasks


* Strong communication (written, oral) and math skills


* Ability to enter and manage data in Excel; Strong computer skills


* Good track record of safety practices


* Ability to work in a laboratory setting for several hours a day


* Ability to lift up-to 50 lbs when required

The following skill sets are preferred :


* Minimum five-year work experience in chemical lab or pilot plant


* B.S.

degree in physical or life sciences (i.e.

chemistry, physics, materials science, biochemistry, biology)

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC.

(NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow.

Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical.

Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch.

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