R&D- Sr. Chemist

The Sherwin-Williams Company • Minneapolis, MN • 4d ago

The Sr. Chemist position on our Transportation and Military Platform within the General Industrial division is responsible for a variety of exciting activities related to developing new technologies and new platforms in our high performance coatings.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

* Working closely with a mentor chemist developing, reformulating, maintaining and enhancing products through planning, executing and analysis of experiments with clear and accurate results.
* Display a working knowledge of the use of chemicals, raw materials, substrate preparation and use instruments commonly found in a lab environment
* Responsible for inputting data, data analysis and technical documentation daily into lab books or a database.
* Will lead individual and group projects. Product development and/or enhanced with consistent in performance and quality.
* Utilizing advanced technologies to develop products that demonstrate improvements and difference that consumer can perceive and will desire.
* Performing paint making processes, meets manufactures specifications
* Performing coating formulations, applications and physical/performance testing methods
* Providing timely and accurate conclusions based upon data to help resolve field complaints, raw material issues, manufacturing problems, and support existing and new product development
* Experience with solvent-borne and water-borne acrylic, alkyd, epoxy and urethane chemistries
* Excellent organizational and communication skills
* Application and troubleshooting of general industrial coatings

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Must meet ITAR U.S. Person requirements - Sherwin-Williams maintains International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliant operations in United States based facilities. This position is subject to ITAR which requires U.S. Person status. ITAR defines U.S. Person as U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status.
* Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math field.
* Must be at least 18 years of age.
* Must have at least 5 years of formulation experience industrial coatings.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience working with DOE, Minitab, Product Vision, Microsoft Office

Travel Requirements: Up to 30% Domestic and International

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H-1B visa.