Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities : -

Safety -

• Comply with all company occupational health, safety and environmental legal requirements.
• Report all unsafe conditions, work related injury or illness to a member of leadership.
• Use personal protective equipment as assigned.
• Safely handle hazardous chemicals and waste according to company and legal requirements as assigned.
• Make recommendation for changes/improvements to ISO 9001 Quality management system.
• Process Development - With assistance from the R&D Chemists, Production Manager, and Plant Engineer, new process instructions are designed and written. Specific activities include:
  • Manages the product development workflow by overseeing the projects assigned to the R&D Chemists.
  • Consults with production team and Production Manager to determine limitations and best options for new processes.
  • Consults with Plant Engineer to ensure all necessary equipment is capable of performing new process.
  • Makes recommendations regarding quality assurance methodology.

Product Development

• Encapsulates activities ranging from the bench scale to first-run plant capability and includes synthetic products, formulated products and customer-specific starting point formulae using methodology that meet the following criteria:

• Cost-effectiveness
• Scalability
• Safe handling of chemicals and equipment
• Customer specifications
• Compliance with both internal and external standards of environmental product and health impacts and technology sustainability
• Compliance with the scientific method of inquiry
• Rigorous application of statistical and experimental design protocols

Quality Assurance Activities

• Instituting quality assurance methods is also a duty of the Lab Manager/ Senior R &D Chemist. When a new product is developed and is ready for production scale, the appropriate QC test methods are finalized by the Lab Manager/ Sr. R&D Chemist.

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