09.10.20
Company Name:
King Industries
Company Description:
King Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes specialty, high performance additives for small and large companies throughout the world.
Business Industry:
Raw Materials
Job Title:
Senior Research Chemist
Experience:
Mid-Senior Level
Job Function:
Research
Employment Type:
Full-time
Job Description:
King Industries, Inc. is actively seeking to hire a Senior Research Chemist within our Coatings Additives Division. Ideal candidates should have a Ph.D. in Chemistry along with 10 years of experience in the coatings industry. Responsibilities will include, researching, planning, and running experiments related to New Product Development, working with the marketing/sales team to develop concepts for new products, interacting with production engineers to scale up new products, among other responsibilities.
Desired Skills and Expertise:
Skills Required:
King Industries
Company Description:
King Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes specialty, high performance additives for small and large companies throughout the world.
Business Industry:
Raw Materials
Job Title:
Senior Research Chemist
Experience:
Mid-Senior Level
Job Function:
Research
Employment Type:
Full-time
Job Description:
King Industries, Inc. is actively seeking to hire a Senior Research Chemist within our Coatings Additives Division. Ideal candidates should have a Ph.D. in Chemistry along with 10 years of experience in the coatings industry. Responsibilities will include, researching, planning, and running experiments related to New Product Development, working with the marketing/sales team to develop concepts for new products, interacting with production engineers to scale up new products, among other responsibilities.
Desired Skills and Expertise:
Skills Required:
- Must have a strong background in organic synthesis.
- Must be able to work independently
- Must possess strong organizational skills and be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Must be able to effectively communicate, and interact with process development and production engineers, customers, technical service, and sales & marketing.
- Must be a self-starter, driven by an internal desire to succeed with a strong sense of urgency.
- Must be an effective leader, able to drive projects from conception to commercialization.
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be creative and resourceful.
- Must be capable of becoming a recognized expert in a chosen technical field of research.
- Must be able to carry out projects from conception to pilot plant production stage.
- Knowledge of various online chemical literature and patent database software and search techniques highly desirable. Strong literature searching skills.
- Must be able to research new projects by accessing the current technical literature and develop and write new project proposals.
- Must be able to publish original research in leading scientific journals, and to present such information at technical conferences and American Chemical Society National Meetings.
- Must be familiar with ISO-9001-2015 “Design Control” policies and guidelines.
- Ph.D. in Organic or Polymer Chemistry.
- Required experience with coating additives for industrial coatings.
- Knowledge of the current state of the art resin technologies.
- Familiarity with current Windows-based software for spreadsheet manipulation, data handling and graphics composition.