Lead Chemist - Atlanta, Georgia
JOB DESCRIPTION— Lead Chemist (1632)
Position Summary:
Our client in the Atlanta, GA area is looking for a Lead Chemist to aid in new product development for their industrial chemical products manufacturing facility.
Essential Functions:
- Formulate and facilitate development of new products
- Formulation of industrial chemical products, primarily water and surfactant-based detergents
- Sample analysis and reverse engineering of products per customer requirements
- Self-performance of lab activities, including titrations, pH, refractive index, viscosity, specific gravity, cloud point, foam height, and specific ingredient analyses
- Optimize current product line by facilitating development for modifications in current formula
- Response, analysis, and solutions for product recall/quality events
- Maintenance of formulations and data integrity in formulator database
- Management of regulatory and SDS production and compliance measures
- Management of production batch records for recall and QC purposes
- Maintain relationships with clients for new development initiatives and field application
- Create and maintain all of the necessary documentation in order to develop and commercialize the products
- Conduct testing for all products currently developed as well as potential new products
- Must be hands-on in the laboratory and have experience with the operation of basic lab equipment
- Develop and maintain SOPs
- Work with production team to help transition the formulations to full scale manufacturing, including support during plant trials or start of production
- Work with management team to identify solutions for manufacturing issues, qualify alternate source raw materials for purchasing, and identify ways to reduce production costs
- Proactively research new materials and technical concepts
- Must be willing and able to perform lab work and analysis without subordinate resources
Qualifications:
- Chemistry degree (will accept all levels BS, MS, PhD)
- Must have minimum of 10 years’ experience in industrial detergent analysis/formulation
- Must have formulation and reverse engineering experience
- Must have experience in surfactant, detergent, degreasing chemistry